More About Knowing The Future As a writer it only happened to me once, I envisioned something in the future and that vision actually came true. For other writers it happened routinely. In the eighteen-hundreds, Jules Verne predicted space travel, submarines,...
More About My Dinner With Jerzy Part One. I’m referring to the legendary Polish theatre director that few people know about unless they, 1) are bonafide theatrical experts or, 2) saw the electrifying movie “My Dinner with Andre.” In the movie two actor friends meet...
More About Another Dinner With Jerzy Part Two. Actually, there were two dinners with Jerzy. The second came two years after eating steaks together in Marian and Murray Barnett’s kitchen when the venerable Grotowski issued his resolute missive to me, “Gary, never ever...
More About The Cosby Show Two Takes. Take number one: During my time as writer/producer, The Cosby Show was the number one rated program for five consecutive years, a feat accomplished only twice in the history of television. Its impact on American culture was...
More About Glamour Often, when people found out what I did for a living, they’d gush, “You wrote scripts in Hollywood? Paramount? Fox? Universal? That is so glamorous.” To which I’d respond silently, “Glamorous? What the hell did I miss out on?” These people...
More About Moms With Kids In Showbiz Me in the entertainment industry? I don’t get it. I can’t sing. I can’t dance. I don’t tell jokes. I acted in one play in my life in the fourth grade, the Pied Piper of Hamlin, and I only got that part because I knew how to...
