Movie making is the slowest business on earth next to fossil manufacture.

He is the son of Annie Launa (Cozby) and Cecil Clyde Latham. Latham is a regular contributor to such publications as Rolling Stone Esquire Talk and The New York Times. He is married to CBS newswoman and 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl and has one daughter named Taylor.

Aaron Latham (born October 3 1943) is an American journalist who wrote the article that inspired the movie Urban Cowboy and co-wrote its script with director James Bridges. In 1967 he was engaged to the actress Sigourney Weaver.