I've been looking back on my adventure in Hollywood, culling pages from my journal...
Into February ’93, “my” “agent” Robbins read my Seinfeld spec and liked it enough for me to rework it a bit. He said he could get it to the Seinfeld company (“It’ll be nice getting rejected by a higher level of talent”). I even decide to take my “Dashing Dan” script and convert it into a Seinfeld episode. Nothing like over-doing it at the slightest evocation. Additionally, I decided to pull out some scripts and submit them to some comic company, two things I had co-written with John Rawlins (our radio script “Capt. Useless” and a pilot we pitched to the “Galaxy Ranger” folks, “Tech-Mech”).
There are weeks between entries now and it’s like I’m just throwing everything against the wall to see if it sticks.
Into March, and the WGAe Activity Committee was putting some brakes on our attempts to write and re-shape the awards dinner. We decided to keep it more “traditional” and we'd drop in a couple of themed sketches (from Jay’s group) during the proceedings. Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson were set to host. Christopher Reeve would present a special award to Arthur Miller. So it was looking to be a great evening.
Into March, and the WGAe Activity Committee was putting some brakes on our attempts to write and re-shape the awards dinner. We decided to keep it more “traditional” and we'd drop in a couple of themed sketches (from Jay’s group) during the proceedings. Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson were set to host. Christopher Reeve would present a special award to Arthur Miller. So it was looking to be a great evening.
Weeks later again, I learn my comic book stuff was rejected. I was prepping for that night's WGAe Awards dinner. That had been my focus, with little done on scripts. As I wrote: “Maybe I’m attaching too much importance to it, but I want it to fly. I want (Guild President/Comic Icon) Herb Sargent to be impressed. I wanted to hit the home run first time up. I’m not sure this is the right forum for these expectations but I can hope. Because tomorrow it’s back to Seinfeld specs and 'Peking Duck.'"
It was misplaced, at best…
It was misplaced, at best…
