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January 01, 1990 - November 17, 2012 + Martini Shot
What Really Happened 
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I have a friend who is a psychiatrist. I once asked her what she does when she thinks a patient is lying to her. "How...
David Lloyd, RIP
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In January of 1990, almost twenty years ago, I pitched a joke in the writers' room of TV's long-running, phenomenally popular comedy Cheers. The actual...
Cave
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So, every writer has a Sinatra moment – you know what I mean, a moment when you got a note or a request from the...
Part of the Process
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I have a friend who is working on a television show with two studios involved (which means two separate sets of studio executives, all giving...
What I'll Never Do Again
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The last time I went to New York, I got off the plane and headed to the cab line and thought: wait a minute. The...
Bip
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Not too long ago I was in a meeting with the president of a television network. The show I was working on at the time...
The Event
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In the late 1980's, a huge phone company hired a top-of-the-line consultancy to make a forecast. Cell-phone usage was growing quickly, and the phone company...
Plus Aimable
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The cliché, of course, is that American television is awful. You know the saw: bad sitcoms, predictable dramas, tame dialogue, soft characters. About four years...
No One Wants Westerns
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Years ago, on my first day in film school – never mind how many years ago; let's just say, enough years ago – there was...
Out of Town
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This is hard to believe but true. Not too long ago -- and when I say "not too long ago," I'm saying it from the...
Too Many Plates
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Hollywood is divided into two basic groups: the first group is the one-project types, the serial types. The second, the hedgers, the plates-in-the-air guys. Writers,...
Validation
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The rumor was all over town, and it was serious enough that my agent felt the need to call me. "It's not true," he said....
This Is Where We Keep the Writers
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A friend of mine was working on a show once at a large studio that offered tours of its facilities to tourists. They'd gather in...
Do You See the Problem?
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A friend of mine pitched a show last week to a network, and they didn't buy it. This isn't a sad story, because another network...
Tip Jar Money
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Here's what just happened: I'm in a hip coffee shop in Venice, It's early afternoon, and I order a
double espresso. I hand over the money...
