Syd Field died last Sunday in Beverly Hills. He was 77. You probably already know that if you’re the kind of person most of TVWriter™’s visitors are.
I first heard about yesterday but decided to give myself a day or two to think about Syd and what he’s meant to the screenwriting and by extension the television writing communities.
…Especially for those of us who’ve always wanted to see more of a certain far-too-neglected Doctor:
Wowza! A fully authorized interweb mini-prequel to the upcoming DAY OF THE DOCTOR 50th Anniversary special, so exciting that we could swear Russell T. Davies wrote it.
Um, well, actually I always love where I live. Because why would I live where I didn’t?
But my current location at the top of the Olympic Peninsula in the Pacific Northwest has a certain amazingness you just can’t find anywhere else.
Just ask Rachel Bloom.
What? You haven’t heard of her? You will. She’s one busy writer, working on scripts for ROBOT CHICKEN and ALLEN GREGORY, and as an actress Rachel’s appeared on HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER.
More importantly for TVWriter™ purposes, Rachel is also the writer and star of FUCK ME, RAY BRADBURY, a music video that as of this writing has over 2,175,000 Youtube hits.
Lew Weitzman, a man I greatly admired and respected, died last June. He was 75, and during his 40+ year career as an agent at the William Morris Agency, the Lew Weitzman Agency, and Preferred Artists Agency he represented writers such as Len Katzman, James Lee Barrett, John McGreevey, and dozens more.
Including me.
In my own 40+ year career, Lew was my agent not once, not twice, not three, but at least half a dozen times, for a total period of, probably twenty years. His death hit me so hard that it’s taken months for me to be able to digest and address it. And I’m usually pretty good about facing things.