Seen on camera muttering "What a f****** idiot" after interviewing FRC
spokesman Robert Knight in 2000.
Battling lung cancer, had surgery in November to remove a malignant tumor on his chest [December 8, 2009].
He is of Louisiana Creole descent (including African, French, some German Jewish, and distant Corsican Italian, ancestry). The "Gumbel" family in Louisiana originates with German Jewish immigrants.