Apropos of the ongoing TV writers' strike

[thatcrazycajun]

Courtesy of QuotationsPage.com's Quotes of the Day, from the late radio comedian Fred Allen:

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

This would have been the same Fred Allen who more famously said, "Imitation is the sincerest form of television." Of course, this could have been partly sour grapes on his part about his medium's being eclipsed as the primary form of home entertainment...but alas, we shall never know.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

"Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done."
    -- Ernie Kovacs

[junquegrrl.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for the whole industry, but I must say I'm very proud to know my BIL - he is a producer for a show on TV right now; but since he also represents comedy writers, he has been picketing with his writers. see? not all evil.