“I pulled a page from Sandy Koufax and said, ‘I can’t shoot on Rosh Hashanah.
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Just before he was about to embark for the movie set in Winnipeg, he learned that the shoot was scheduled for Rosh Hashanah. In 2004, Price was cast in “Category 6: Day of Destruction,” as… a reporter, “a stretch role that showed my true acting chops,” he says. One benefit of his work in television has been the wide range of experiences he’s had, from reporting amid war zones to appearing in a movie.
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But they were also as supportive as any two Jewish parents could be when their son announces that he’s leaving Newport Beach, California for Erie, Pennsylvania just as winter is setting in, to take a job doing TV weather for just above minimum wage.” So naturally they were stunned and worried. The only thing that would have made my parents more proud, perhaps, was if I had become an MD or gone to Harvard. “I went to Cornell, got a masters at Columbia, had a fully developed career in human resources. What special skills did he need to learn in order to make the move? “I needed to learn CPR, in order to pick both my parents up off the floor when I told them I was leaving a corporate job behind to try my hand at television,” he says. He spent 10 years in corporate America before transitioning to TV.ĭave Price with an Airforce serviceman after flying a U-2 spy plane. After high school, Price studied industrial labor relations at Cornell then earned a graduate degree in organizational psychology at Columbia. He still keeps kosher, which, he says, can be a challenge in some of the remote locations from which he has reported. Price grew up in a kosher home and regularly attended Temple Beth-El, the Conservative synagogue in Dutchess County. There will always be a part of me there – but enough about my bris,” he jokes. More precisely, he says, “I was born there, went to Hebrew school and was bar-mitzvahed, all in Poughkeepsie. Price was born and raised in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
When I run into people, they are often most curious about what it’s like to be in those places and ask about the challenges of reporting those experiences.” You’re being catapulted off a three-story launch pad, or sitting in the cockpit of a Blue Angels F-18, dropping at a speed of 30,000 feet per second.
Reporting from the Gulf oil spill in Louisiana.
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