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From: Scott Rae <orclin at home.com>
Date: 15 Jun 2000 13:06:49 -0600
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Jms at B5 wrote:>*

> >What do you want at this point in your life?
>
>
> In TV, I figure I've got another few years left in me before I just can't
> handle it anymore, so I'd kinda like to do one more show, maybe two depending
> on what does or doesn't last...and then get out.  I'm 45 now, so that would put
> me at about 50, a good age to go for a quieter lifestyle.
>
>  jms
>

BS....Joe, you've got the stubbornness of a pit bull and you'll be making TV shows
as long as those squirrels in your brain keep running (or until Harlan and Kathryn
sign the commitment papers.)

I'll bet you a steak dinner that you'll still be writing/producing when you're 60.

50.... my arse.

Scott



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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 15 Jun 2000 21:33:35 -0600
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>BS....Joe, you've got the stubbornness of a pit bull and you'll be making TV
>shows
>as long as those squirrels in your brain keep running (or until Harlan and
>Kathryn
>sign the commitment papers.)
>I'll bet you a steak dinner that you'll still be writing/producing when
>you're 60.
>
>50.... my arse.

I'll take that bet.

See, my mind -- that same, pigheaded mind -- made itself up pretty firmly on
this one.  

Reason is basically this: I started working in TV round about 1984/85.  That's
15 years already in this particular vineyard.  And it's soul-killing work. 
Always has been.  Charles Beaumont said it's like climbing a mountain of ka-ka
to pluck one perfect rose...only to find by the time you've gotten to the top
that you've lost your sense of smell.

It's hard, tedious, soul-breaking work, mainly for the kind of people you have
to deal with, and I have only so much visceral material.  I've worked hard all
my life (as have most people), working round the clock for *years*, rarely ever
taking a vacation, writing nonstop...I *need* to find that time when I can
relax a bit, and that ain't never gonna happen as long as I'm working in
TeeVee.

Give up writing?  That, no, I'll be writing until I fall down dead.  But TV? 
Yeah, I could give that up pretty easily when the time comes.

jms
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