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...because whenever I walk into anyone's house, they leave the TV on the entire time we're talking. That may, upon reflection, be a subtle hint I'm not catching. Still, I got some sense of how much they hated it when I left TIME to write for a sitcom. People thought I was selling out or too lazy for journalism or, like all good Americans, desperate to meet Ryan Seacrest...
...first day at the new job, having absolutely no experience, I was panicked about the prospect of being sent off to write. So I was glad when our morning meeting stretched past the two-hour mark. But by 4 o'clock, after we had ordered lunch and eaten it around the conference table, I was a little freaked out. G-8 meetings don't last that long...
...working on a detailed, seven-page outline that we show to our studio, Touchstone, and then to ABC. They make improvements along the lines of asking "Could it be a Ukrainian baby instead of a Chinese baby?" Then Marco sends the "writer" of the episode off to "write" the dialogue, although every line will be completely rewritten around the conference table...
...Audiences don't know somebody sits down and writes a picture," says the cynical scenarist played by William Holden in Billy Wilder's 1950 Sunset Blvd. "They think the actors make it up as they go along." O.K., most actors don't write their own dialogue. But they are more than handsome lugs and ladies. They are the script's words made flesh, the director's dreams embodied. And for us people out there in the dark, actors are our best, our baddest, our deepest and most glamorous selves...
Alito was given a test. As part of applying for the job, he was asked to write an essay attesting to his ideological credentials. "I am and always have been a conservative," he wrote in uncharacteristically bald prose. With those eight words, along with a note that he was "particularly proud" of memos he had written suggesting limits to affirmative action and abortion rights, Alito sealed the promotion...