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   From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   bugs  writes:   
      
   >I have a great new book to recommend called "Milt & Marty: The Longest   
   >Lasting & Least Successful Comedy Writing Duo in Show Biz History."   
      
   	Oh, good.  I've been hopping for a detailed examination of the   
   partnership between Milton Caniff and Marty Feldman.   
      
      
   >It's a novel by two guys (Tom Leopold and Bob Sand) with lots of   
   >sitcom credits (Seinfeld, Cheers, etc.) and it is really, really   
   >funny.   
      
   	Now I'm just wondering what part the sitcom credits played in   
   the writing of the book.  What, for example, does the mere fact of   
   film editing having been done between 1991 and 1993 by Robert Bramwell   
   or Frank Khoury being the transportation coordinator for at least 21   
   episodes have to do with a novel much of anything?  These are all   
   questions I feel I cannot answer.   
      
      
   > Shows there is life beyond stand-up -- and it's a good counter-   
   >argument to throw at parents and other relatives who say scriptwriters   
   >aren't real writers. Hey, if you have a book, you're definitely a real   
   >writer, right?   
      
   	I don't wish to be unnecessarily argumentative, but, logically,   
   writing a book to prove one is a real writer does not show that being a   
   scriptwriter makes one a real writer.  The 'real writer' status is   
   conferred by writing the book without question; therefore, writing one   
   to claim to be a real writer leaves unaffected the question of whether   
   a scriptwriter is a real writer.  I'm afraid that with work like this   
   you're not likely to pass the Introduction to Logic course in either the   
   Philosophy or the Mathematics departments.   
      
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