Writer Ahmet Zappa & Zinfandel

Published: March 7, 2017, 1:06 p.m.

As a member of a celebrated artistic family, Ahmet Zappa’s path to success as a best-selling children’s author, producer and screenwriter (The Odd Life of Timothy Green) was a surprisingly crooked line. With detours through child acting and MTV hosting gigs, and roadblocks that included dyslexia and crises of confidence, he walks us through the many strange steps of his Hollywood journey and more than does his part in helping the guys plow through three stellar bottles of Zinfandel.