Michael Lazarou

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Michael Lazarou (born March 17, 1960, in

Biography

Lazarou began his career as story editor for the half-hour television comedy Doogie Howser, M.D. and the one-hour drama The Untouchables. He wrote the screenplays for the TV movies Heat Wave and Possessed, and for feature films Take the A Train and Satin Doll.

He adapted his semi-autobiographical novel Criminal Law into a film for HBO. This was followed up with The Stanford Prison Experiment, originally developed for television for HBO, but later acquired by Artisan Entertainment as a motion picture.

Lazarou, is dyslexic and dysgraphic and was unable to read or write until he was nearly ten years old.^{[citation needed]} He is a graduate of UCLA, New York University and the AFI Center For Advanced Film Studies.

After a four-year career absence due to a near-fatal kidney ailment, he returned to establish

Personal life

Lazarou was married to Melissa Tucker in 1981. They divorced in 1983. In 1991 he married Charisse McGhee. Lazarou and McGhee have since had four children together.

Awards

For his script for