show business
some good news
United Artists is making an interim agreement with the WGA. Tom Cruise took over UA after Sumner Redstone banished him from Viacom. None of the other moguls are happy about this deal, Redstone included. Could it be payback?
Sitcom Scenes I Hate to Write, Part One
There are certain set-ups that don’t lead to anything good. “Box canyons,” writer Don Reo used to call them. “We’re in a box canyon!” Best you can do is get out. I carry with me a mental checklist of such scenes. Sometimes the set-ups themselves are inherently flawed. Sometimes it is possible to fashion a […]
the lobby of nbc
There is a glass case by the elevators with various “gag” products, books and board games with Mad-Magazine style puns for titles. I’ve written for NBC on and off for over ten years, and the glass case has been there in the lobby the whole time. I worked on the John Larroquette show, had a […]
Jack Silbert, curator