The Emmy Award winning TV writer/producer and the author that critics are hailing as "Elmore Leonard on crack"
Phoef Sutton
BATMAN dresses up like a bat to fight crime. Isn’t that just a little absurd? Not if you ask Christopher Nolan. His Batman is deadly serious. Just listen to his voice.
But if you ask Lorenzo Semple Jr? Then you end up with the Adam West BATMAN TV series of the ‘60s. Now, I ask you, which is more true to life?
INTERVIEW WITH BARBARA HALL
Barbara Hall is a veteran TV producer (Judging Amy, Joan of Arcadia). What’s more, she’s also an accomplish novelist. What’s more she’s also a recording artist. I get exhausted just thinking about it.
Where did the trope of Crazed Vietnam War Vet come from? What was the first instance of it to penetrate popular consciousness? What was the Patient Zero of the CVWV?
Lee Goldberg is a writing machine.
He has written something like 47 books. Produced something like ten TV shows. I get exhausted just thinking about it.
He’s a New York Times bestselling author for the Fox & O’Hare books written with Janet Evanovich. THE HEIST. THE CHASE. And in November of this year, THE JOB.
There is no name for it. It happens every year. It’s one of the few really classy, unselfish traditions left in Hollywood. Television writers put in hours of work on their friend’s comedy pilots for NO MONEY. JUST BECAUSE THEY’RE FRIENDS.
What is the “Writers’ Room?” It is the room where the writers of a television show work, live and write as a unit. In multi-camera comedy especially, it is a weird and wonderful place – the location of the “brain” of a TV show. To put it in STAR TREK terms, the Writers’ Room is the Bridge of a television production.
I saw Tom Waits and Richard Burton in my time as bookstore clerk at Crown Books
The other day I opened the mail and saw that I had received a certificate from the Writer’s Guild of America, congratulating me for being a writer on one of WGA’s 101 Best Written TV Series. CHEERS!
A CHRISTMAS CAROL… WHICH IS YOUR FAVORITE? It’s that time of year. You can’t away from it. Ebenezer Scrooge is on every channel. I watched two version of the Dickens tale just last night. Which is your favorite? I don’t imagine you’ve seen this one. It’s one of many silent versions, this one starring… Continue Reading A CHRISTMAS CAROL… WHICH IS YOUR FAVORITE? »
So, as I was saying… I moved to L.A. with my dear wife-to-be in the early ‘80s. I had a job (clerk in a Crown Book store on Pico Blvd.) and a temporary place to stay, with my girlfriend’s aunt and her husband. Who happened to be Don Knotts. DON KNOTTS Don Knotts. One of… Continue Reading DON KNOTTS: HOW I DIDN’T GET STARTED, PART II »
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