Hal has a Bachelors degree in Playwrighting from Rutgers University and a juris doctorate from Rutgers University School of Law. He has other degrees which he is still trying to find a use for.He lives in West Hollywood in a fabulous apartment with an octogenarian spaniel mix, a shiba-inu, a neurotic toy schnauzer, a feisty lovebird and an irritable, flesh-eating military macaw named after his icon - Tallulah.