![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1993, Milch and Bochco created “ NYPD Blue,” a radical reinvention of the prime-time network police drama. Starting in the early nineteen-eighties, when a former college roommate who wrote for “Hill Street Blues” introduced him to Steven Bochco, the series’ co-creator, and he began writing for the show, too, Milch earned a reputation as one of the most original and intellectually fluent figures in the history of episodic television. A survivor of decades of serial addiction-recovery-relapse-recovery-and also of heart disease, childhood sexual predation, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and bipolarity-he remained in command of prodigious gifts. When they moved there, five years ago, from a much larger house a few miles away, where they had raised three children, Milch was about to turn seventy. David Milch, the television writer, lives with his wife, Rita Stern Milch, on a peaceful block in Santa Monica, in a cozy stucco bungalow camouflaged by a lush cottage garden. ![]()
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