I’m stepping in to introduce Mia Pinchoff’s MY LIFE WITH SOCK because…well, because even if I weren’t a puppet lover who spent much of my life with various socks over my hands doing their shtick with my kids when they were younger, I’d still be absolutely charmed by Ms. Pinchoff’s take on what happens when a very human woman dates an even more humanlike sock.
Here’s what I mean:
Oh, God, I love Miranda Hart. Writer, actress, human being…she’s perfect. Just damn perfect. Which means, yeah, if you don’t know her work you really need to:
It wasn’t easy coming up with a reason to write about Miranda, who’s huge in the UK but hardly even known here in the U.S., but last week she gave an interview on the UK’s Graham Norton show which encapsulates why everyone who knows her work – from my wife and myself to, oh, TVWriter™ Contributing Editor Cara Winter and, um, erm…let me get back to that – is so charmed.
(EDITED 9/1914 TO REMOVE ERRORS of fact for which TVWriter™ apologizes.)
Ted Flicker, known primarily as the creator of the classic ’70s TV series BARNEY MILLER and the writer-director of the cult classic comedy film from the same era, THE PRESIDENT’S ANALYST, died a couple of nights ago at his home in Santa Fe.
My old bud from the heyday of the Writer Action Forum, Troy DeVolld, is one of the primo reality TV producers in the country and author of Reality TV: An Insider’s Guide to TV’s Hottest Market, a truly inside and extremely helpful look at the reality TV biz and how to get started in it.
Troy is also the very helpful owner-operator of RealityTVTroy’s Blog, and TVWriter™ merrily reprints Troy’s posts there whenever possible. The pickings have been scarce lately, and for awhile everyone here was a bit worried about him.
When I came to L.A. in the late ’90s to try and make my showbiz mark, one of the first producers I met was Alan Landsburg.
I probably spent literally dozens of hours pitching to him in the crowded North Hollywood house that his company, Alan Landsburg Productions, was headquartered in. (Alan, of course, lived in Beverly Hills.)
I never sold him anything but always had a great time because I was being treated with courtesy and respect by a man I in turn respected, both personally and creatively. And I learned! Oh, did I learn from those conversations…and from just being in the office, observing as pre-production, production, and post-production crises collided. Talk about a crash course.