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Michael Wolff: The Tic Code

by AAJ Staff
November 1, 2000

The Tic Code represents to Michael Wolff more than a soundtrack album that he wrote and produced. It represents very personal music that helps depict his struggles with Tourette Syndrome, a neurological condition that involves involuntary tics, shouts and vocal sounds. As the musical director of The Arsenio Hall Show , Wolff was able to control the visible signs of the syndrome on camera. Polly Draper of the TV show thirtysomething appeared on the show, dated Wolff, eventually married him ...