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Bumback's the Squid and the Whale
Bumback's father, Jonathan, was the author of 12 novels and a professor at Brooklyn College. Noah often tried to earn his dad's approval by becoming him. In 1982, when Bumback was 12, he accompanied his father to an early showing of something called E.T. "I can remember what shirt I was wearing because I had to put it over my face," says Bumback.