. Somehow or other, I got to write on another show that guy was producing, — I got to write one hour of it because they read the screenplay, which had nothing to do with the kind of things they were doing — and it took me maybe four months to write this hour episode. Nobody said, “Hey, where’s the show?!” I finally turned it in, and I got all excited; the family was all alerted; and my credit came on, and it blew my mind. But lo and behold, a lot of my dialogue was gone.
Yeah. I was leaving — they were taking me up to the elevators — and this guy, Lloyd Braun was his name, said “Listen.” He had been my lawyer, and Brillstein-Grey was a really happening management company. He said, “Listen, the reason you’re here is because we think you have an earth-shaking television show inside you.” And my stomach sank because number one, no one had ever talked to me that way. But also I thought, “I don’t want to do that.
Now, you weren’t even that heartbroken about Fox passing, or about the possibility of HBO passing, because to you the ultimate thing that could happen with this would have been to make it into a movie, right? I did love that movie, but that’s not the reason why. For example, if you had told me this guy Tony Sirico was in, I would go, “Really?” I knew Lorraine was in it. But that was the pool of Italian-American talent who might make the cut at that time in New York. And I insisted that everybody be Italian-American.Livia. She was very difficult. We must have seen a hundred Italian-American actresses. When I was thinking of doing it as a movie, I kept thinking about de Niro and Anne Bancroft.
Two of the writers I knew from prior work, Robin Green and Mitch Burgess, and they really liked the script and they said all the right things; I could tell they understood it. The other people? You just read scripts, agents send in scripts and you read them, and the ones that you like, you meet with the person, and if you hit it off you bring them on.
Really liked the article. It was a great look into all the factors that influenced Chase throughout his life, and helped him create one of the best shows on television. However, I still wonder if the whole family was killed or just Tony.
I never understood how anyone could not figure this out. It was brilliantly laid out that Tony was shot in the back of the head.
WTF is this happy-ass-dated horseshit? clickbait
But he doesn’t reveal anything