Re: JDTV
DCSpohr@aol.com
Mon, 20 Oct 1997 23:40:17 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 97-10-20 14:21:44 EDT, you write:
<< Happened upon the middle of a new sitcom the other night while supping.
Not
sure of the name of it, but it stars Gregory Hines and he plays a publisher
and a father. Anyway, in this episode it was someone's birthday and somehow
this old writer ends up in Hines' New York (?) apartment, an old writer who
just happens to have written Hines' all time favorite novel. >>
There was a recent episode of Frasier where Frasier's father befriends a
famous reclusive author who only published only one novel, which changed
Frasier and Niles lives when they read it as a teens. He's snippy when
anyone treats him like "a literary god" but likes Frasier's dad because he
treats him like a normal person. The author leaves a briefcase with a
manuscript he is planning to publish in Frasiers house, which Frasier and
Niles promptly read. They praise the author, but when they compare the
novels structure to Dante's Divine Comedy, the author agrees with them and
thinks the critics will pan him for such an obvious theft of an idea. The
author throws the manuscript pages off Frasiers balcony and thanks them for
keeping him from making the mistake of publishing again.