tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post6037934868546695965..comments2024-03-14T04:07:39.792-07:00Comments on Earl Pomerantz: Just Thinking...: "A Joke Is Just A Joke?"Earl Pomerantzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16963705121297866334noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-65503788202925350302009-10-16T21:26:26.910-07:002009-10-16T21:26:26.910-07:00Not to defend the network, but...
Maybe they were...Not to defend the network, but...<br /><br />Maybe they were sensitive to the Holocaust implications of burnt Jewish children. Maybe?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-34632784811872930232009-10-15T20:09:38.792-07:002009-10-15T20:09:38.792-07:00"There’s no saying for sure, but I doubt it w..."There’s no saying for sure, but I doubt it would have been more popular if it had been duller."<br /><br />Great line! Oh, how I wish I'd had that in my arsenal when my job was to field idiotic network notes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-74597327525595072652009-10-15T16:22:03.358-07:002009-10-15T16:22:03.358-07:00"Maybe now that Al’s important, they’ll relea..."Maybe now that Al’s important, they’ll release the entire set on DVD."<br /><br />The entire series, including the unaired ones, was released in a dvd set on August 17, 2004.<br /><br />"I’d like that. We did some really good work."<br /><br />I watched them. You didn't, really.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12053749295025061099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-38857833815345906672009-10-14T15:40:24.501-07:002009-10-14T15:40:24.501-07:00Reading a script to find out if it is "approp...Reading a script to find out if it is "appropriate", I think is the problem. The way a line is delivered is probably as important as the words themselves. I remember a scene in <i>Mulholland Drive</i> where Naomi Watts's character is reading for a part. The preceding auditioning actress portrays the character as an innocent young child. Naomi, using the same words, plays the part as a teenage seductress giving the same text an entirely different meaning - that impressed me and gave me, a mere viewer, a new respect for how actors can define a character. This is also why "fistfights" broke out in corporations when we introduced e-mail communication in the 90's. Without the body language, tone, inflection, and meta-language we are used to so many ideas were misinterpreted and always, as is the human condition, seen in a negative light I wonder how much of that is at play when a script is merely "read".MikeThe Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17121638582388746309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-85187574006211135512009-10-14T11:39:06.164-07:002009-10-14T11:39:06.164-07:00Does this mean the doctors were right...that crack...Does this mean the doctors were right...that cracking your chest open is no longer necessary?<br /><br />Ten points for you.growingupartistshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12399714569663568902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-44726444097514029362009-10-14T07:32:08.306-07:002009-10-14T07:32:08.306-07:00Have to make this anonymous, Earl, but you know wh...Have to make this anonymous, Earl, but you know who I am... we spoke very recently. Anyway, my feeling is that network and studio execs are 90% responsible for the failure of shows. Yes, maybe 10% of shows that fail deserve to because they are badly conceived and executed. BUT 90% are killed by the relentless notes of moron execs... creative retards who just HAVE to speak at meetings and have no idea of what they are saying. In 22 years of writing and creating sitcoms, I have NEVER met a smart studio or network exec. And by smart, I mean one that either gave good notes or was smart enough to get out of the way and let writers do what they do. Not one in 22 years. ALL morons. Some very pleasant morons, mostly though, arrogant idiots. It is the single reason I own NO entertainment company stocks. Anyway, good for you guys, fighting for that joke. I have fought for jokes and scripts and it is the reason I have chosen to no longer write pilots... I'm tired of creating good things and then being told to ruin them. If network TV ever wants to know what killed network TV, the answer is simple: THEY did.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com