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...just folks with jobs who have moved on to other jobs. They haven't gone on to ruin or luxurious retirements. They've just gone on--steadily, maybe happily, maybe not quite as excitingly as in their synth-fueled youth. That's not rock 'n' roll, necessarily. But as VH1's too-old-for-TRL audience has found, that's life...
This is my bitter story about how Hollywood screwed up my brilliant idea. Only it wasn't even Hollywood. It was VH1. It's really more a story about how four guys MTV was trying to get rid of screwed up my idea...
Five years and about 29 VH1 presidents ago, someone at the channel approached me about creating a show. So I pitched an animated sitcom in which I would interview two celebrities an episode and then build a flimsy plot around them involving a guy named Joel Stein who works at a magazine. If VH1 had wanted imagination, it would have gone to David Lynch...
...VH1 liked the pilot I wrote for Hey Joel and ordered 13 episodes at about $450,000 each--the most money the channel had ever spent on a series. The only reason VH1 could afford it was that the station hired Canadian animators and a Canadian supporting actor, which brought in Canadian government funding in what may be the most wasteful use of Canadian tax dollars since the country went bilingual...
Because they had made such a huge investment, the VH1 execs quickly decided I couldn't be trusted as the head writer. Or the No. 2 writer. Then they decided, after watching the animated pilot, that I was such a bad actor I couldn't play myself--in a voice-over. So they hired Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men) to play me, which, oddly, we both found insulting. Next they concluded that booking celebrities for interviews was too difficult, so they wrote fake interviews and had actors pretend to be the guests, thereby removing the entire premise...