The Berrics - Department 8

You asked me the other day whose parts were the best in the Lakai video. I told you Eric, Mike Carroll, Rick Howard, Marc Johnson and Guy Mariano were my favorites and you actually seemed really happy to hear that. Is it good to know these guys are still killing it after all these years and amongst so much competition?

Of course man. Those are our contemporaries, the guys we knew coming up that were killing it years ago. And I know those guys all put YOU on their list of pro's that they look at and think "I like what he's doin"

Two years ago I was in between places, I was just getting ready to leave for Canada for the next four months to shoot the good life, you let Patrick Fugit and I stay with you. You let us eat your food and lounge around all day. The three of us were sitting in your living room when you told us of the new pilot you were about to shoot. It was called HEROES. If my memory serves me correctly you had offers for other projects. Projects that sounded pretty good, but you rolled the dice on this one. Knowing how cruel the television business can be, what was it that made you do that? Why did HEROES win out? It seemed the most interesting but we all know what that means sometimes; the least likely to be picked up.

I'm a fan of the underdog. Heroes did have a lot of promise to me cause it centered on these great characters, their ordinary lives and the extraordinary circumstances that surround them. Sure there was the flying and teleporting and rapid healing, but what I always went back to was the characters. And Heroes was the only one that had that of the other projects I was looking at. Everything else seemed to have one angle to hang onto, but if that angle ever dulled out the show would not work. Yeah, I still haven't given you and Pat the bill for your stay at hotel Ventimiglia.

With acting comes fame and you've been on this steady rise on the fame train since I've known you. Now, with HEROES, I see billboards of your face 30 ft high all over town, but you still make time to return all my calls, text messages, emails and come out to the Berrics and do this. You are absolutely one of the most grounded and generous people I know. How is that?

Register any and all complaints with my parents. They are the kind of people you want to learn from, how they live their lives and raised my sisters and I, well, you, my close friends see what happened, its all them, Pete and Carol.