Word: keyser
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...genius of Christopher Keyser and Amy Lippman, the creators of Party of Five, has been to understand the entertainment value of emotional pain. The show is about a family of five orphans and it features enough heavy talk and tragedy to sustain an A.A. chapter. As presented by Keyser and Lippman, though, the relentless suffering is positively enjoyable. That is so partly because Party of Five offers the guilty pleasure of watching other people's troubles, but the show is much finer than any soap. When the competence of Julia (played by Neve Campbell with sensuous innocence and gravity) wounds...
...people. This time they are a group of friends in their 20s. The show's tone is much lighter and more romantic than Party of Five's, but it still has its share of anguish. Expectations are high, and if the show is a hit, it will prove that Keyser and Lippman really have the goods...
Three years ago, when Party of Five was struggling, it seemed unlikely they would even be employed, much less have two series on TV. Keyser, 37, and Lippman, 34, met in 1985 in a playwriting class at Harvard, where he was in law school and she was an undergraduate studying poetry. Uninterested in a legal career, Keyser began writing screenplays after graduation; meanwhile, Lippman became a writer on soaps. They linked up officially in 1988, when they both moved to Los Angeles with their future spouses. They have been partners ever since, and their closeness is apparent in how they...
After writing for such shows as L.A. Law and Sisters, Keyser and Lippman were asked by Fox to develop a series about some kids on their own after the death of their parents. Early on, the show had few viewers and was almost canceled. To help the ratings, Rupert Murdoch, whose company owns Fox, suggested an episode in which the kids' house burned down. (Keyser and Lippman rejected the idea.) Eventually, the ratings improved, and the show's popularity continues even as the loss of the parents recedes. "These people at any time in their lives are constantly forced back...
...middle of last year, Keyser and Lippman started considering a new project. Inspired by thirtysomething, they thought of doing a similar show about characters in their 20s. The post-college years, when people are trying to figure out what they're going to do with their lives, offered lots of dramatic possibilities. So they set about creating a group of characters: Campbell (Eion Bailey), Henry (Scott Bairstow) and Nell (Jennifer Garner), who have been friends for 20 years (needless to say, Nell has been involved with both guys). They live in Los Angeles, professionally and romantically adrift...