[5] Together they wrote the script for the film "The Secret of Michelangelo – Every Man’s Dream", produced and directed by Milton Fruchtman, which appeared on ABC primetime television in 1968.
While he was there, he and Jane Winslow Eliot made the decision to leave his job as art editor of Time magazine and the stressful Manhattan lifestyle and live in Greece instead.
Art was his great love and eventually he chose to attend Black Mountain College so that he could study with Josef Albers.
The ‘research’ was done mostly by having a scaffold built on wheels that he and his wife Jane could lie on top of: this way they could be as close to Michelangelo’s work as he was himself; and to study and talk about the stories that he depicted on the ceiling.
His tastes in art were wide-ranging, and he was among the few critics of the time who understood the persistence of figurative painting in the era of abstraction, championing painters such as Henry Koerner, who remained representational.