[B5JMS] attn. JMS: A TV writing question...

[b5jms at cs.columbia.edu]

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From: "David Williams" <dwilliams298 at attbi.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 05:25:59 +0000 (UTC)
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"Jms at B5" <jmsatb5 at aol.com> wrote in message
news:20030627230845.21121.00001025 at mb-m20.aol.com...
  You keep it at arm's
> length for the same reason you don't name a baby seal until you know it's
gonna
> live.
>
>  jms

Hmmm...  Do I sense some sort of implied show-business metaphors here?
Something to do with bloated carnivorous predators or savages with clubs...

-David W.



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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 07:02:52 +0000 (UTC)
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>Hmmm...  Do I sense some sort of implied show-business metaphors here?
>Something to do with bloated carnivorous predators or savages with clubs...

Two asides to this discussion...

One, there's a really excellent article by Frank Pierson about the movie and,
by implication, the TV business, at

http://www.moviefone.com/showtimes/closesttheaters.adp?_action=setLocation
&csz=91423&submit.x=14&submit.y=12

Two, there's a documentary about comics on the history channel that repeats
Sunday at 10 p.m. Pacific...apparently (I haven't seen it yet, just heard about
it) there's some nice stuff about the 9/11 issue of Amazing that I wrote, plus
a bunch of other good stuff about comics as a form.


 jms

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