KCRW's Martini Shot
Veteran TV writer and producer Rob Long shares his behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood life on "Martini Shot." A contributing editor for the National Review and Newsweek International, he was a co-executive producer of "Cheers" while still in his 20s and is the co-creator of a ...
Veteran TV writer and producer Rob Long shares his behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood life on "Martini Shot." A contributing editor for the National Review and Newsweek International, he was a co-executive producer of "Cheers" while still in his 20s and is the co-creator of a string of (cancelled) sitcoms: "George & Leo," "Men, Women & Dogs," etc. Rob is also the author of "Conversations With My Agent," the cult classic about real life in Hollywood, as well as its recently published sequel, "Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke."
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Many Meetings
Rob attends a meeting to come up with something really ...
Rob attends a meeting to come up with something really new and different. But it's meeting, so that doesn't happen.
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It's All Relativity
Rob sends a shout out to the bankrupt Relativity Media ...
Rob sends a shout out to the bankrupt Relativity Media company. Because a successful movie and an unsuccessful movie both employ the same number of people, so more movies, more better.
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Peak Television
The TV business is like the oil business -- we ...
The TV business is like the oil business -- we keep pumping shows out of the ground until there're just too many shows and the price collapses. We need a show business OPEC.
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Safe Second
It's nice to have options. This is LA, after all. ...
It's nice to have options. This is LA, after all. Things fall apart. Projects collapse. People flake.
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Presenting
What primates do when they present themselves to each other. ...
What primates do when they present themselves to each other. It's what we do around here, when we pitch.
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Lead
Rob turns into the dark anti-hero he's always wanted to ...
Rob turns into the dark anti-hero he's always wanted to be.
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First Date
On dating and television programming, which are a lot more ...
On dating and television programming, which are a lot more alike than you'd think, both being complicated, expensive, and futile.
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Upgrades
Going back to a time when Dynasty and Laverne and ...
Going back to a time when Dynasty and Laverne and Shirley were hit TV shows, now known as Empire and Broad City.
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Stealing Material
With no original material, Rob does everybody else does: he ...
With no original material, Rob does everybody else does: he steals from Twitter.
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Turn Left Now
Getting ordered around town by Arnold Schwarzenegger, who turns out ...
Getting ordered around town by Arnold Schwarzenegger, who turns out to know the very best traffic shortcuts.
