Cary Hoffman wrote the opera I'M KILLIN 'EM , the same guy who owned the comedy club Stand Up NY... Wrote and performed the PBS TV Special "My Sinatra"... Co-wrote the hit musical "What's a Nice Country Like You Doing In A State Like This? and a few country hit records... First producer and manager of Luther Vandross... Co-wrote songs in the Woody Allen film "The Front"... Was Exec producer of Ray Romano's television show 'Men Of A Certain Age " and Zach Galifianakis' manager and most importantly was the best friend of the Comedian Bernie Travis.

Bernie Travis was more than a best friend. He was for a time my given savior, a terribly wounded one who through his tortuous existence saw the doubts in me that he knew also resided in him. All he wanted to do was help me, a lost 22 year old immature dreamer who desperately wanted to write and perform. But nobody ever helped him escape from the sexual prison that his father kept him in as a child. He never had a chance from the get-go; the instability, distortions and actions that were planted in his brain made him exquisitely destined to repeat the pain of his childhood into his failed career as a stand-up comic and ultimately taking his own life. I owe this to Bernie. HE WANTED SO MUCH TO CHANGE THE WORLD BUT IN THE END THE WORLD CHANGED HIM.