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James Burrows: He Gave Us Thousands of Reasons to Laugh

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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Is This Too Forward of Me or What Were You Thinking?

I was in wallingford, connecticut directing a production of forty carrots with joan fontaine. I went home one saturday night after rehearsal, and i turned on te and there was the merry taleo mor show. So that's, that's a theatrical piece that's being filmed. And so i thought to myself, why don't i write her a letter? Because i was doing a two hour play in a week, and they were doing 25 minutes in a week. And i wrote her a letter. About two weeks later, after i came back from directing somewhere else, in some other dinner theatre, i got letter from grant tinker. He said, we're interested

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