Les Shenkel，Moved from Brooklyn at age 9 to Hewlett, NY. Graduated Hewlett High School in 1962. Got hooked on Theatre at Hewlett. Attended Rider College in Trenton, NJ 1962-1965. Many plays and was picked to play Evil Eye Fleagle in Li'l Abner in a USO tour of US Army bases in France 1963. Moved into New York City after college.