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Herbie J Pilato’s Exclusive Interview with ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ Icon Max Baer, Jr.

“Jethro” with Herbie J

by Herbie J Pilato

“Yee-hah!”

— Jethro Bodine, as played by Max Baer Jr. on The Beverly Hillbillies

There must be something to being super-dim and mega-handsome. Just ask Jethro Bodine, The Beverly Hillbillies TV character portrayed with earnest by Max Baer, Jr. (who prefers to be known as just Max Baer) on CBS from 1962 to 1971. Jethro may have been born as “mountain folk,” but because his Uncle Jed Clampett (Buddy Ebsen) struck gold (“Texas tea”), he was fortunate enough to have “loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly . . . Hills, that is” — with the entire Clampett family, including Elly May (Donna Douglas) and Granny (Irene Ryan). read article

14 Tips and Tricks to Make Your Writing Stronger

Grammarcheck.Net and Jennifer Frost continue to delight us with helpful tips for writers of all media. Here’s the latest example.

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Cartoon: How to Build a Sandcastle

TVWriter™’s all-time favorite artist/philosopher, Grant Snider, shows us much more than the title of this cartoon lets on. The way we see it, he could also have called this “How to Build a Career,” or “How to Build a Life,” or…well, you get the idea. Whatcha think?

See more of Grant Snider’s extraordinary perception of human creativity at Incidental Comics, HERE read article

Herbie J Pilato Takes Us ‘Beyond Star Trek’

Image via SciFiMoviePage.com

by Herbie J Pilato

Along with popular television shows such as The Lieutenant, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, affectionately known in many sci-fi sectors as “The Great Bird of the Galaxy,” created a number of other series beyond his most well-known franchise.

Many of Roddenberry’s non-Trek significant TV properties materialized after the initial demise of what is now known as The Original Series, and prior to the development of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which ignited and expanded his Trek universe into feature films in 1979.

The more recognizable of these non-Trek projects were several unsold made-for-TV science fiction pilots including Genesis II, Questor, Planet Earth, Strange New World, and Spectre….. read article

Cartoon: Balance

TVWriter™’s all-time favorite artist/philosopher, Grant Snider, lets us in on how he balances his life. Well, erm, tries to balance it anyway.

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