American - Actor | September 5, 1940 -
I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.
William Devane
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I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
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If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.
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It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.
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It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige.
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Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.
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The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.
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The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.
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The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.
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There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.
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Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.
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What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.
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