Category: By Larry Brody

LB: STAR TREK – Heresy

by Larry Brody

No, I’m not talking about the J.J. Abrams movie but about a book written by one of my closest friends, Herb Solow, and his longtime wingman, the late Bobby Justman.

Herb – as Herbert F. Solow, Executive in Charge of Production for Desilu Studios, and Bobby – as Robert H. Justman, Producer – were two-third of the team that worked/fought like hell to get the Original STAR TREK on the air…and keep it there. Years later, these two keepers of the Places Where All the Bodies are Buried teamed up again to write the book Inside Star Trek: The Real Story. read article

LB: I Miss Gore Vidal Already

by Larry Brody

Celebrated author, playwright Gore Vidal dies at 86 – by Hillel Italie and Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press

Author, playwright, politician and commentator Gore Vidal, whose vast and sharpened range of published works and public remarks were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, died Tuesday at age 86 in Los Angeles.

Some of my personal favorite Gore Vidal quotes that have no relevance to politics or culture: read article

LB: Rod Serling on Censorship…and Sponsors

by Larry Brody

My writing hero talked to Mike Wallace back in 1959, and Rod wasn’t exactly a happy camper:

Thanks, Robin! read article

The Most Popular TVWriter™ Status Update on Facebook

by Larry Brody

We all know that Facebook keeps an enormous amount of information on all of its users.

One of the bits FB collects is how many viewers any given status update has, and there’s even a way to find out. (No, I don’t know how to do it deliberately. I just know that whenever I go to the TVWriter™ FB page – or whatever they call those things now – it tells me how many people saw each post…and then, for purposes of comparison, I assume, it tells me how many people have seen what it says is, “your most popular post.” read article