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...PB: I really wanted to work in Hollywood in some capacity at that point but instead I just became a management consultant at Monitor in Cambridge. I think I was the most incompetent consultant they ever hired...My friends would always tell me, “You can’t be that bad at the job. It must be because you don’t enjoy it.” In fact, I actually had one of my performance evaluations lying around and I would quote them...

Author: By Emily C. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Peter Blake | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...PB: Basically it said: “Peter cannot understand simple concepts and express himself clearly”...I just sucked. [Laughs]...I still just didn’t have the guts to go out and do what I really wanted to do, which was work in Hollywood...but once you’re terrible at everything else you try, it’s a lot less risky to go to Hollywood...So I took out the “Law & Order” spec script I had written five years before and I rewrote it and I wrote another...

Author: By Emily C. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Peter Blake | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...PB: That was the only time it ever came in handy...I took a lot of criminal law classes and whenever we talked about a cool case I marked it down in my mind and thought, “I wonder if this will make a good “Law & Order” episode...

Author: By Emily C. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Peter Blake | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...PB: I was always a fan of the original...The golden years of “Law & Order” are absolutely amazing, but “SVU” [editor’s note: the sexy one] is my favorite right...

Author: By Emily C. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Peter Blake | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...struggle to raise their children with some semblance of normalcy-without driving themselves, their kids, their friends, and their communities crazy. Waiters roll their eyes when parents ask to view labels and school staff often resist accommodations. Parents whose kids dive into birthday cake with abandon and live on PB and J aren't necessarily sympathetic to what they call the peanut police. Even the most understanding moms aren't accustomed to the precautions involved in having an allergic child over for a playdate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Allergies at the Dinner Table | 11/22/2006 | See Source »

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