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...things are really dysfunctional. Brad Garrett, far left, who plays Raymond's sad-sack brother Robert, isn't happy about his reported $160,000-an-episode salary, and he hasn't shown up for work since the show started filming its upcoming season last week. The producers had to write him out of the first episode. The show's star, Ray Romano, left, who makes $1.8 million per half-hour of TV time, has said, "I want everybody to get what they deserve, and they will. CBS has always been good, and, sure, it's all going to work...
...week." But as for the comic art, he's short on insight, he offers little cultural context, and his one original explanation for I Love Lucy's enduring success is just weird: people love it because it is in black and white. "There is something incompatible," Kanfer writes, "about humor and color." (Let's see how Kanfer massages that theory should he ever write Jerry Seinfeld...
...characters memorable, Kitagawa incorporates in her scripts conversations and events from her own life. Bouncing a small rubber ball out of the window, as Minami and Sena (Takuya Kimura) do in Long Vacation, for instance, is what she and her brother used to do at home. "Some writers just write to attract an audience because they think the content will appeal and not because they're personally connected to the material," says the 41-year-old mother of one. "But in my case, every drama comes from...
...success: Kitagawa doesn't pen a script until the cast is chosen, so that she can customize each role. "I feel very attached to [Takako] Tokiwa and Takuya [Kimura]," she says of the two performers who have starred in many of her dramas. "I feel that every role I write, I write a great deal just for them." Don't expect to see either of them starring in her upcoming project, though. Kitagawa is planning a new cast for her next series about young people starting out in life. "I'm interested in something simple and strong," she muses...
...Asian Wanderlust Lives! Jamie James' article on concerns about the decline in long-haul travel to Asia as Westerners take holidays closer to home provided an intriguing glimpse into the key problems facing the travel industry today [Aug. 11]. One cannot, however, write off the promising future of long-distance travel to Asia. Of the 21 major Asian-destination countries, 15 experienced increased arrivals in 2002 compared with 2000. It is worth using 2000 as a benchmark, because it was a record year for tourism to and within the Asia-Pacific region, as well as the last year relatively free...