He also was involved in the productions of the films Revenge of the Nerds,[1] Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and All the President's Men.
[2] According to Alex Kyczynski of The New York Times, Obst says he was born in 1946,[1] in Culver City, California.
[1] Around 1969 Obst went to Taiwan to study the Chinese language and later moved to Washington, DC where he became Seymour Hersh's literary agent.
[1] Obst wrote the memoir Too Good To Be Forgotten: Changing America in the '60s and '70s, which was published in 1998.
In a review of the book, Hersh stated that Obst was "in the middle of" important political movements in the 1960s and 1970s.