Tom Fontana

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Noted television producer who cut his teeth on St. Elsewhere, then launched two of the 1990s' most searing dramas, Homicide: Life on the Street and OZ.

Tom Fontana's true origins are shrouded in the mists of time. Recent evidence suggests that he may have been a founding member of the Village People, but was ejected because his proposed "priest" costume didn't mesh with the hedonistic homosexual archetypes that characterized the rest of the group. This rejection has colored the rest of his work, which explains why Catholicism and priests feature so prominently in all his shows.