Re: running into jds
Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Tue, 21 Oct 1997 11:18:37 -0700
Bananafi wrote:
> hi,
> couldn't help but chuckle at how tv repeats itself. believe it was frazier
> that had a program just last year where a famous author befriends his father,
> and frazier and niles realize its ???, who has a new novel, which they read in
> manuscript, make comments regarding changing it, and the guy burns the thing.
> it was quite funny, actually.
> guess those tv writers are running out of material.
I bet it doesn't take too long for TV writers after they start off in the
profession (probably just after their trophy significant other leaves them for a
Screenplay writer) before they realize how much they've diluted their talent,
sacrificed their ideals and just basically are ashamed of themselves for pimping
out and start genuflecting at the altars of their idols. Oh how easy it is to read
the minds of these TV writers, not to mention the producers who see that such
scripts get made. They all seem to agree and know that in the bottom of their
hearts that it isn't money they want, or fame: it's to be able to make your stab
at immortality, have it stick, be able to disappear and not have to smile and
gladhand with every stranger who wants to stalk you just because people will say
mean things about you and to just basically keep your dignity and integrity under
lock and key.
Salinger has become an archetype. I bet he and Emily Dickinson would have gotten
along very well together.
Malcolm