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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda cover image

James Burrows: He Gave Us Thousands of Reasons to Laugh

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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The Actors Are Valuable at a Certain Point

There were no egoes. Once, once, cheers happened. There's a moment in shows of that kind, four camera shows, where at the last rehearsal, there can't be any egos. The actors have given so much thought and experienced so much playing the character that they have a perspective that the writers can benefit from. You know, i want a writer to defend his material. I don't want him to be defensive about, um, ye, we that's well put you mentioned technical considerations before...i wonder if our listeners as aware as we as we are of the difference between a four camera show on tape compared to one camera shot, like a movie.

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