And now, because it’s the right thing to do (and you can see the other winners just about anywhere) here they are, the really big writer-Emmy winners for this year!
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We’re always happy to bring you articles by TVWriter™ Contributing Editor Emeritus Herbie J Pilato, but now we’re even happier to present the latest article (that we’ve seen) about him.
“I love classic TV,” says Herbie J. Pilato. His passion for television history is unmistakable. In writing his book, Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story, he approached the life and legacy of an icon with deep respect, compassion and attentiveness. When he discusses the book, there’s such a genuine understanding of the significance fans and admirers would attribute to the task of creating the record of a life story as stunning as Mary’s.
Herbie is a historian above everything, therefore he spares no effort when it comes to chronicling the details of Mary’s life and work, his knowledge coming through clearly as he tells us about the development and trajectory of the Mary Tyler Moore Show. He’s an ardent supporter of Mary who is keenly insightful as to her desires, her insecurities, her hopes and disappointments, and when he speaks about these things one gets the sense that he’s extraordinarily well-suited to be her surrogate and her voice.
TVWriter™’s all-time favorite artist/philosopher, Grant Snider, shows us how to do something every writer who ever set pen to paper (or done the latest equivalent of same) has learned is absolutely essential to the writing life.
See more of Grant Snider’s extraordinary perception of human creativity at Incidental Comics, HERE
It was 2004, and I was working as one of the producers on Bravo’s hit five-part series, The 100 Greatest TV Characters.
As the author of The Kung Fu Book of Caine and The Kung Fu Book of Wisdom, companion books to the 1972–75 ABC-TV series. This legendary “Eastern-Western” starred David Carradine as fugitive Asian-American-Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine, a.k.a. “Grasshopper,” who I suggested be included in the Bravo series.
A Shining New Documentary about the Legendary Lucille Ball Hits All The Right Marks
There is an elegance in the story-telling of Lucille Ball: We Love Lucy, which premiers on the Reelz Channel Saturday night, September 12th.