"You can't fool an audience with smoke and mirrors," says Anderson, also the show's executive producer. "You can throw up all kinds of special effects and blow things up every few minutes, but the audience sees through that," he says. "I know I do. I get bored. If it's a good story, you can paint. You've got the canvas, you just dab in the explosions here and there." Now that Anderson and companion Apryl Prose are happy parents, Anderson is all the more conscious of being a role model for TV viewers.

The Bergen Record. September 19,1998