Was an editor & contributor to
Harvey Kurtzman's ("Mad", "Little Annie Fanny")
legendary magazine "HELP!", which also employed such future
luminaries as
Terry Gilliam,
John Cleese (as a photographic model for
fumetti features) and
Gloria Steinem. It is in tribute to his and
Gilliam's old boss and mentor Kurtzman that Sam Lowry's boss in
Brazil (1985), played by
Ian Holm, is named "Kurtzmann".