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Only You, Dick Daring!

Merle Miller

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Description:by Merle Miller and Evan RhodesWilliam Sloane Associates, 1964(from WSJ list of Seth Freeman's favorite books on working in TV, "A Job With the Silver Screen: "In the early 1960's, novelist Merle Miller was asked to write a pilot for CBS to star Jackie Cooper, former child actor and the popular star of the series "Hennesey." Miller had never written a pilot, so an executive gave him the short course: "You've got to capture them in the first thirty seconds, and they've got to stay captured... In the first thirty seconds the pilot should go like this, 'Fifty thousand murderous Berbers are headed toward Cairo, and only you, Dick Daring, can stop them.' Dick Daring, that's our hero, in thase case Jackie Cooper, couny agent." As Miller explains in this book, his account of "how to write one television script and make $50,000,000," as he was soon shuttling between coasts and writing dozens fo scripts that he is told are "beautiful" by executives even as they hire other writers to rewrite behind his back. What ends up being shot is a pointless porridge that has no chance of ever making on the schedule. Miller's painful, if droll, experiences might be hard to belive if they hadn't actually happened - and if virtually the same scenes weren't being played out in writers; offices and network suites today.")We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Only You, Dick Daring!. To get started finding Only You, Dick Daring!, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Williaim Sloane Associates

Release: 1964

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Description: by Merle Miller and Evan RhodesWilliam Sloane Associates, 1964(from WSJ list of Seth Freeman's favorite books on working in TV, "A Job With the Silver Screen: "In the early 1960's, novelist Merle Miller was asked to write a pilot for CBS to star Jackie Cooper, former child actor and the popular star of the series "Hennesey." Miller had never written a pilot, so an executive gave him the short course: "You've got to capture them in the first thirty seconds, and they've got to stay captured... In the first thirty seconds the pilot should go like this, 'Fifty thousand murderous Berbers are headed toward Cairo, and only you, Dick Daring, can stop them.' Dick Daring, that's our hero, in thase case Jackie Cooper, couny agent." As Miller explains in this book, his account of "how to write one television script and make $50,000,000," as he was soon shuttling between coasts and writing dozens fo scripts that he is told are "beautiful" by executives even as they hire other writers to rewrite behind his back. What ends up being shot is a pointless porridge that has no chance of ever making on the schedule. Miller's painful, if droll, experiences might be hard to belive if they hadn't actually happened - and if virtually the same scenes weren't being played out in writers; offices and network suites today.")We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Only You, Dick Daring!. To get started finding Only You, Dick Daring!, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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