JMS: Don't you get tired?

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From: jbonetati at aol.com (JBONETATI)
Date: 18 Sep 1999 21:15:07 -0600
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Dear JMS,

You've shed a lot of light on the process of television and writing and
producing in the last few years.  In the process a lot of the 'politics' of the
industry has shown through the chinks even though you've always acted in a
professional manner.

Don't you get tired of the 'I can't discuss it yet' and the 'I can neither
confirm or deny that' and the showing of a neutral or optimistic face for the
sake of the project even though it's gone to hell in a handbasket?  The
political crap seems that it would grind you down and sand off your integrity.

How do you deal with it?

Thanks,

Jan 


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 19 Sep 1999 01:16:16 -0600
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>Don't you get tired of the 'I can't discuss it yet' and the 'I can neither
>confirm or deny that' and the showing of a neutral or optimistic face for the
>sake of the project even though it's gone to hell in a handbasket?  The
>political crap seems that it would grind you down and sand off your
>integrity.
>How do you deal with it?

I don't, basically, as the whole TNT situation makes fairly evident.  I'm
simply not a political creature.  My life would be eminently simpler and less
stressful if I *were*, but I ain't.  I go for the philosophy of "Be sand, not
oil, in the machinery of the world."

The peculiar thing about it is...by all rights I should be hard-core
unemployable.  But any time I become available, the phone rings...people who
work with me invariably come back to work with me again,fully knowing that I'm
a major-league pain in the ass.  I think the reason they do so is because they
know that I'm *not* political, that whatever some might say the truth is that
when I show up at the office in the morning, I check my ego at the door and
everything I do, I do if I sincerely believe it's the best thing for the show,
and the story.

Somehow, it works.  Damned if I understand it.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
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http://www.thestation.com




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