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...Goffman himself graduated from Emory College, but spent a semester at Harvard and later returned for a degree from the Kennedy School of Government...
...characters have great chemistry, but we fear that the story might end [if they get together] and we always want that to feel fresh to the audience,” explained Goffman...
...even with Josh and Donna’s romantic tensions, the Harvard audience was more intrigued by Ryan Pierce, a recent Harvard graduate interning for Josh Lyman. Pierce is a wealthy final club boy with powerful family connections in Washington, a character that Goffman said sprang from writers’ meetings being dominated by Harvard University alumni...
Many students, hoping for a similar path to writing success, asked Goffman’s advice on the right way to put together scripts for getting a job as a writer in Hollywood. “Write as many spec scripts as you can,” Goffman advised, also emphasizing the need to constantly be thinking of new ideas...
...Goffman cautioned that getting a writer’s job in Hollywood is difficult: writers need to get an agent or be selected out of the thousands of candidates to partake in a workshop program held by one of the networks. “Most writers are lucky to even get two years on a show because they’re cancelled so easily,” said Goffman. “I’ve been lucky with ‘The West Wing...