Tag: TV CAREER TIPS

Herbie J Pilato brings us Rare Footage of Original “Star Trek: Phase II” Pilot from 1977 —

(EDITOR’S NOTE: …Plus Brief General “Trek” TV and Film History because Herbie J is nothing if not the complete completist.)

by Herbie J Pilato

In 1965, NBC commissions the first Star Trek TV pilot episode, titled, “The Cage,” starring Jeffrey Hunter, who played Jesus in King of Kings, as Captain Pike, and Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock. But it’s deemed too cerebral and doesn’t sell.

A second pilot is ordered, called, “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk and Nimoy back as Spock. This new pilot is more action-oriented and sells. read article

LB: For all my dreamer friends…(Take 2)

by Larry Brody

…And I know I have a lot of you because my life has always been about dreaming-fantasizing-leaving-this-world-for-another-one-just-around-the bend.

Which leads me to this daily segment of Stephan Pastis’ comic strip, Pearls Before Swine from about a week ago:

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Larry Brody: Live! From the Rain Forest! #1 – “The Brodys Keep Dreaming About Sun”

UNUSUAL NOTE FROM LB: For those not in the know, which is roughly everyone in the universe, Gwen the Beautiful and I have lived on the Olympic Peninsula, across Puget Sound (and around the bend) from Seattle for over 10 years.

We live in a resort community in the woods, in a home we love even if it isn’t horsified acreage on top of our own mountain and bears no resemblance in terms of lifestyle (except for woods and the long drive to reach most shopping and services) to our former abode. read article

LB: Writing and the Unreliable Narrator

by Larry Brody

I’d be worried about the headline here giving away the punchline, but this isn’t really that kind of comic, is it?

Just between us, I think we’re all unreliable narrators, and not only on the page. And science seems to agree. read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #170 – “Grampahood in L.A.”

A Big Thing that Happened in L.A. in 2008…but not as big as Franny Owl.

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