> Speaking of Jim and his penchant for staying away from
> specifics, I've always been taken a little sideways by the
> reference to "chilly California sand" in FCOL, which just
> jumps out as being very atypical for Jim. Does Jim even
> have any connection to the West Coast? Why didn't he go
> with "chilly Jersey Shore sand?"
Jim Steinman was born in New York but spent a lot of his early life in Claremont, California, near Los Angeles. An avid, though not very accomplished surfer, he remembers dying his hair blond one summer, "It was some product Clairol put out once, designed for men. My hair turned a bizarre yellow-orange. It looked a little like W.C. Fields' liver." He moved to New York right before entering high school, and then enrolled in Amherst College in Massachussetts.
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