T. Gene Hatcher:
CLASS OF 1974
Western High SchoolClass of 1974
Anaheim, CA
T. Gene's Story
Since October of 1986, most of my income has come from being a freelance book editor. Other people write the manuscripts, and then I tell those people their manuscripts aren't good enough for me, ha, ha, ha. Is that a cushy job or what?
I also lecture on films at places such as MOMA, and I do audio commentaries on DVDs.
Since 1984, I've been a professional fitness model. From 2003 through 2010, I appeared stark naked 13 times on an American TV series that's broadcast internationally and used in college courses around the world. As I started to cross Queen Street in Auckland, New Zealand, two college-age boys recognized me from the TV series even though I had my clothes on when I was on Queen Street.
I have 1.59 TB of music in my iTunes library. Music is essential to me.
I have more than 14,577 books in my personal library. All of those books are organized on book shelves throughout my home. I read nonfiction and literary classics. I read a minimum o...Expand for more
f 104 books each year.
I work out five times a week. I have two personal trainers who come to my home, one at a time. I weigh only 21 pounds more than I did when I was weighed for my P. E. class at Western in September of 1971. On Sunday mornings, a Bikram yoga instructor comes to my home and kicks my butt for 90 minutes.
One of my trainers told me that, if I ever let my percentage of body fat get above 10%, then he's going to stop working with me, so I keep my body fat below 6%.
In the 2023 international CrossFit Open fitness competition, I competed against 2,532 men. I placed 150th in the world; 140th in the United States; and 2nd in the state in which I live.
I'm amused by the people who look at my Classmates photo album--sometimes again and again--but don't contact me.
The most important things in my life are my partner, my friends, reading, writing, music, and working out.
Now that Lou Gehrig's dead, I'm the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
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