In an NPR interview in 2000, when James was asked if there had been any rebellion between he and his father when he was growing up, James paused for a moment, and said to some degree there had, but that was a long time ago - at this point Sam jumped in to say he thought the fact that he and James both went to college prep schools at a time when they probably would have wrung their respective father's necks, sparing them some of the pain fathers and sons encounter, and that the headmaster from the school absorbed it instead.--thanks, noodle, for a good memory of the interview!

I thought it interesting that in this interview, Sam slipped and called his son "Jamie". You'll notice that is the name Mattapoisett knows him by as well. In his first film credit, Oppenheimer,he is billed as Jamie Waterston.

James Waterston is also on the Board of Directors of Providence Magazine, with circulation in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. He has contributed photographs to the magazine. His mother, Barbara Waterston, is the editor of the magazine, which calls itself "snazzy, jazzy, sassy, brassy...not too shabby".

James and his wife Line, who is now a history professor, reside in the New York City metropolitan area with their two children.

If you have any information about James Waterston, the man, and you would like to see it posted here, please email me.