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Herbie J Pilato’s TV Academy Profile in Courage

Actress Eileen Grubba on set of Sons of Anarchy

by Herbie J Pilato

Actress Eileen Grubba—physically disabled since childhood, and an advocate for Performers with Disability (PWD)—has always beaten the odds.

A few months before her 5th birthday, Grubba was paralyzed from the waist down. Doctors didn’t think she would make it, and when she did, they predicted she would never walk again. But she prevailed again.

Vince Staskel, also an advocate for PWD, was born with cerebral palsy and is a friend and colleague to Grubba. He says Grubba “forced herself to walk through sheer will, and it took a lifetime of effort to keep her walking.” read article

The Best Questions You Can Ask Your Mentor

The following article from Lifehacker.Com refers to any mentor, in any business, but show business being a particular intense one, it really, really, really will help if you learn to:

Ask Your Mentor These 40 Questions
by Elizabeth Yuko

Not everyone has—or wants—a mentor. But if you do have someone in your life who helps guide your professional and/or personal life, you probably want to make sure that you use your time with them wisely. A lot of energy and effort go into mentoring someone, so if you’re on the receiving end of that sort of relationship, it’s important not to take their advice for granted, and to make every minute with them count. Over on Ladders, Robert Carnevale has provided a list of 40 questions to ask your mentor to get the most out of your relationship, broken down by category. Here is what to ask your mentor to help you learn essential life lessons. read article

Latest on WGAW Connect

What has our Writers Guild done for us lately?

Glad you asked because the Guild has a wonderful answer in Writers Connect, a short newsletter members get every week. (See? Another good reason to bust your butt to qualify and join.)

“It’s Just Automatic”

Writers sound off about late pay successes from agency-provided information. read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #104 “Gym Dandy”

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.

Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B. read article

10 Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – July 13, 2020

Good morning! Welcome to another week of TV (and other) writing and production tips at TVWriter™. Here’s a look at the most popular blog posts and resource pages during the  last 7 days.

They are, in order: read article