Rand Ravich is a film and television director writer and producer He wrote and directed the 1999 science fiction thriller The Astronauts Wife starring Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron which was nominated for the Best Film category at the 1999 Catalonian International Film Festival He was a producer on the film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and also wrote the screenplays for the Candyman sequel Candyman 2 Farewell to the Flesh and the 1997 movie The Maker Ravich is the creator of the NBC television drama series Life He was also the shows executive producer and one of the writers He attended Arthur L Johnson Regional High School but graduated from Solomon Schecter a small Jewish day school before attending Haverford College in Pennsylvania He majored in Philosophy studying with Richard J Bernstein Aryeh Kosman and Paul Desjardins Professor Desjardins name and many other references to Haverford crop up regularly in Life While at Haverford Rand came under the tutelage of Professor Bob Butman who fostered Rands creative interests and pushed him on the path to his writing career