Believe-it-or-not bio: V. Michael Bove, Jr. was born in the same small town as Rush Limbaugh, and spent part of his childhood in a home rented from Salman Rushdie's in-laws. In 1977 he built a personal computer with a video digitizer. His research group's work has been the subject of Jay Leno's monologue. He has been listed in Who's Who in Entertainment and has taught a course at MIT on the comic strip Krazy Kat. Omni magazine has noted that his ``dark hair and perfectly chiseled features give him the look of a matinee idol.'' He lives with a baroness on the former estate of a horse-cosmetics manufacturer, where he experiments with varieties of citrus fruit that can survive outdoors during New England winters.
