Interview Jaclyn Smith In her two-and-a-half-hour interview, Jaclyn Smith discusses her early years and family life growing up in Texas. She talks of her early interest in acting and modeling and becoming the most famous of the "Breck Girls." She recalls her early acting jobs on McCloud , The Rookies, and The Partridge...
Interview David Milch In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, David Milch discusses his early life and influences, and how he came to write for Hill Street Blues . He talks about his stint as a writer for Hill Street Blues under Steven Bochco and his unconventional personal life at the time. He describes co-creating NYPD...
Interview Al Jean In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Al Jean discusses his decision to become a comedy writer. He recalls his first professional writing job for the feature film Airplane 2 , and speaks of his first television job writing jokes for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson . He chronicles writing...
Interview Laraine Newman In her two-and-a-half-hour interview, Laraine Newman recalls her early interest in performing, which led her to study mime with Marcel Marceau and to be a founding member of The Groundlings comedy troupe in Los Angeles. She recalls being discovered by Lorne Michaels for The Lily Tomlin Special,...
Interview Dick Askin In his four-hour interview, Dick Askin talks about his early days as an account executive at WNBC in New York, dealing with local shows like Not For Women Only . He describes his transition to KNBC in Los Angeles where he served as director of sales before transitioning over to Fries Entertainment...
Interview Ed O'Neill In his three-hour interview, Ed O'Neill discusses entering acting in his early thirties. He talks of his love of theater and speaks of several plays he was in before landing a role on the soap opera Another World . He recalls several guest appearances on television shows in the early 1980s and...
