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...infomercial for children's videotapes) to Kathleen Sullivan, the former CBS This Morning anchor who not only weighs in for the cameras in a series of ads for Weight Watchers but also attends their meetings in a Weight Watchers Super Start program infomercial. Mel Harris joins Victoria Principal to pitch skin-care products; Dionne Warwick offers us psychic phenomena; Ali McGraw hawks more beautifiers, all in program-length commercials. This month Joan Rivers converted her daytime talk show into a new program combining gab with salesmanship, aptly titled Can We Shop. Even Roseanne and Tom Arnold have found time...
...murderously at them. More than one secretary was reduced to tears." Brooks could find script ideas anywhere, as Lloyd recalls from the days of the MTM spin-off Lou Grant: "We were at a story conference, and I didn't have an idea in the world. Jim proceded to pitch to me an incident involving surgery I had had for a thyroid cancer. I wrote it, and I thought: I even need Jim Brooks to dredge up material from my own life...
...ever glorious Simpsons speak in awe of his knack for sitcom storymaking. "He'll jump out of his chair," says Reiss, "and start spilling out a story as if he's recounting something he's already seen. But he's making it up on the spot. He'll pitch the whole story, the turns it takes; the jokes are there, and it'll have a sweet ending. Once we started to tell him a Simpsons story line: Homer has to work at the Kwik-E Mart for Apu. Jim goes, 'Oh, great. And Apu will say, "There are only...
Reinhart Sundheimer was a world-beating cellist until his 20s. To hear him tell it, he was betrayed by his gift for perfect intonation: "My ear began to examine each note so intensely that even a variation of a single cycle of pitch bothered me." So, at 35, Reinhart is a reclusive music teacher in Los Angeles...
...wasn't big or particularly intimidating in appearance, but she scared the boys. When I brought her into pitch an inning once, she struck out the side and got a standing ovation from the mothers in the stands...