You've Got To Write For Your Audience.

I Don't Want To Go Back To Sitcoms - I'm A Middle-aged, White Guy - The High School Principal Who's A Buffoon. It's Hard Enough Raising Kids Now A Days, And I Don't Want To Be A Part Of A Show That I'll Be Embarrassed Watching Shows Like That With My Kids And My Mother. A Lot Of Shows Feel They Need To Get That For Humor. You've Have To Have Had A Life Experience; Otherwise, It's Toilet Humor. If You've Had A Job Before Or Experienced Something, You Get It. Some Of These People Haven't And They Look For The Cheap Laugh.

That Was Actually Lloyd Phillips Who Was A Kiwi Film Producer In L.a. And It Was About Gorgeous George, Not Haystacks Calhoun. I Was In A Couple Of Lloyd's Films And Got Approached To Write The Story. People Don't Realize It, But Gorgeous George Had This Flamboyant, Camp Stage Persona That Had A Tremendous Influence On Other Celebrities, Like Elton John, Liberace, Elvis Presley, And Mohammed Ali, Who All Wanted To Establish Their Own Outlandish Stage Personas. The Project Died Because Gorgeous George's Wife Refused To Give Up The Rights.

I Was A Carpenter In Northern Vermont And Got This Tax Refund Check That Just About Covered A One-way Airfare To London. So This I Saw As A Sign From God. So I Went Over To See Ray [hussett] For A Couple Of Weeks And Ended Up Staying 10 Years. I Got Work As A Stage Carpenter At The Oval House In Kennington, South London.

So Many Actors Have Sheer Guts, Will, And Determination; They Just Need Some Preparation.

All Over The Us, There Is A Need To Teach Young People To, Really, Get Them Out In The Backyard, Building Treehouses, Fixing Bicycles, Because You Become A Better, More Well-rounded, Renaissance Personality If You Actually Know How To Do Things With Your Hands. If You Can Fix The Screen Door Or Replace Your Old Garbage Disposal, Even Change The Tire On A Car, A Lot Of People Don't Even Know How To Do That. We're Literally Running Out Of People Who Know How To Do Those Things, The Essential Things Like Plumbing, Carpentry, Stone Masonry, We're Literally Running Out Of Them.