Archive for January, 2017

“For decades he was the chief justice of the film industry — fair, tough-minded, and innovative. I feel that all of us have lost our benevolent godfather.”  Steven Spielberg quoted in the LA Times after the death of Lew Wasserman When Lew Wasserman died in 2002 he was considered the last of Hollywood’s moguls. Variety […]

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“For decades he was the chief justice of the film industry — fair, tough-minded, and innovative. I feel that all of us have lost our benevolent godfather.”  Steven Spielberg quoted in the LA Times after the death of Lew Wasserman When Lew Wasserman died in 2002 he was considered the last of Hollywood’s moguls. Variety […]

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“Write six pages of script a day. Stick to this schedule no matter what. You’ll have a finished first draft in roughly twenty days. Then go back and edit what you’ve written. Spend no more than five days on this edit.” Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct) The Devil’s Guide to Hollywood

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They are playing the NFL Pro Bowl in Orlando tonight and I went out to the ESPN Wide World Wide of Sports at Disney yesterday to see the last practices of the AFC & NFC teams and other events. Got to see wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. be covered by cornerback Richard Sherman—two of the […]

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“I’m Mary Tyler Moore and I am…an actress, an animal lover, the chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Reseach Foundation, the wife of Dr. Robert Levine, and…I don’t want to give away the whole story from the vert start. Suffice it to say there are a lot of ways to end that sentence, and I don’t […]

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“I’m Mary Tyler Moore and I am…an actress, an animal lover, the chaorman of the Juvenile

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Carl Reiner on casting Mary Tyler Moore for The Dick Van Dyke Show:

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“I will never forget one day [Lucille Ball] sort of walked out of the studio and then came back, and came up to me and said, ‘you’re very good,’ and then walked on. That was the greatest gift I ever received in this business. I don’t think I have another moment that compares with the […]

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“Today Mary Richards and her DNA can be found in nearly every major female character in primetime.” Tina Fey on the character Mary Tyler Moore played in the TV show that lead to Moore winning four of her seven Primetime Emmy Awards The day after I won a Regional Emmy for this blog in 2008 […]

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“If you’re looking for an excuse, you’ll find one.” Actor/Director Denzel Washington  60 Minutes interview December 18, 2016 Congrats to all those nominated for Oscars today. But since much of the national press centered around the major turn around of people of color being nominated for Oscar Awards compared to last year, I thought it […]

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