Author: LB

A legendary figure in the television writing and production world with a career going back to the late ’60s, Larry Brody has written and produced hundreds of hours of American and worldwide television and is a consultant to production companies and networks in the U.S. and abroad . Shows written or produced by Brody have won several awards including - yes, it's true - Emmys, Writers Guild Awards, and the Humanitas Award.

Larry Brody: Getting to Know the Thai Kaeng

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A rare calm moment from The Fantastic Friends Episode 1

by Larry Brody

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A typically tense moment from the newest version of the Sangre De Cristo teaser

As many of you already know, I’m a partner in a Thai animation studio start-up called Southeast Asia Animation. SEAA is the home of a group of Thai animators calling themselves the Thai Kaeng and their Big Boss, a 17 year old genius currently living in the leafy green state of Oregon.

In as short a logline as I, as SEAA’s Senior Advisor, can give it, Thai Kaeng Anime is a combination of new ideas and deliberately old school methodology geared to achieve two purposes – the entertainment and amusement of the audience and the fulfillment of its creators’ need to function as true artists.

In other words, the Thai Kaeng isn’t just sitting around drawing and writing, its using drawing and writing and all that to meditate and become one with the universe, while at the same time conjuring up the craziest, funniest, scariest, bloodiest stuff its members can get jammed into their brains from out there in the void. read article

Larry Brody’s Poetry: The Second Time I Saw The Stars Dancing

by Larry Brody

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Time now for a bit more about the dancing stars, which often strike me as Indian Country’s Great Gift to the rest of the world. Oh…and my companion in magic for so many – but nowhere near enough – years, the Navajo Dog:

The Second Time I Saw The Stars Dancing

The second time I saw the stars dancing read article

LB’s Poetry: Kid Hollywood Acknowledges His Co-Opting

by Larry Brody

NOTE FROM LB: 

In a way I didn’t realize when I first wrote it, the following poem commemorates the moment of my baptism as Kid Hollywood. So brave I was! So bold! So proud!

But, as I didn’t even think to ask myself at the time, of what?  read article

LB’s Poetry: Two People Who Died By Their Own Hand

by Larry Brody

NOTE FROM LB: 

The following poem has nothing to do with showbiz…except that it owes its existence to the fact that it tells, as compactly as possible, the kind of story I always wanted to tell on TV but never could.

There were rules back in the day, about what topics you could touch and how you had to stroke them. Life and and the danger of losing one’s life were beloved by network execs. But there sure as hell weren’t any I ever met who wanted to read a script or watch a show about suicide. (Not even if it was action-packed.) Poetry, however, knows how to welcome: read article

LB:”Star Trek” storyboards? Oh my!

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by Larry Brody

Years and years ago, during a Writers Guild strike that took place near the beginning of my career, I took a gig on NBC’s first sequel to the then-recently cancelled STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES. The name of said sequel?

STAR TREK: THE ANIMATED SERIES

No way could I refuse to do an episode of what had been one of my all-time favorite series. Not only was writing animation not a breach of the strike rules, this new NBC half-hour Saturday morning offering was in, hip, and trendy. read article