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36. Interview with Herman Rush, June 22, 2009.
37. Mark Harris, “Mark Harris on TV Comedy,” EW.com, Apr. 2, 2010.
38. Rick Egusquiza, “Kathy Griffin ‘Gay Bashes’ Patricia Heaton,” NationalEnquirer.com, Dec. 26, 2006.
39. Paul Bond, “Republicans in Biz Feel Stifled, Bullied,” HollywoodReporter.com, Oct. 20, 2008.
40. John Nolte, “How the Blacklist Works: Nikki Finke Twists Andrew Klavan’s Words,” BigHollywood.breitbart.com, Apr. 29, 2010.
41. Gary Graham, “Is There a Hollywood Blacklist?” BigHollywood.breitbart.com, May 3, 2010.
42. Dan Gifford, “Yes, There Is a Hollywood Blacklist,” BigHollywood.breitbart.com, May 17, 2010.
43. Interview with Burt Prelutsky, Jan. 26, 2010.
44. Michael Moriarty, The Gift of Stern Angels (Toronto: Evergrowth Publishing, 1996), 258.
45. Shauna Snow, “Morning Report,” Los Angeles Times, May 4, 1995.
46. Interview with Michael Moriarty, May 6, 2010.
47. Interview with Dwight Schultz, Apr. 6, 2009.
48. Dwight Schultz, “The Liberal Bastille,” BigHollywood.breitbart.com, Mar. 16, 2009.
49. Interview with Dwight Schultz, Apr. 6, 2009.
50. Interview with Michael Nankin, June 3, 2009.
51. Interview with Allan Burns, May 26, 2009.
52. Interview with Barbara Fisher, July 6, 2009.
53. Interview with Robert Davi, Apr. 3, 2009.
54. Ibid.
55. Interview with Adam Baldwin, Jan. 26, 2010.
56. Interview with Don Bellisario, June 10, 2009.
57. Interview with Marc Cherry, Aug. 9, 2009.
58. Patrick Goldstein, “ ‘Tea Party’ Troubadour Says: ‘In Hollywood, Being a Conservative Is the Kiss of Death,” LATimes.com, May 18, 2010.
59. Patrick Goldstein, “Will Barack Obama Make Hollywood More Colorblind?” LA Times.com, Jan. 19, 2009.
60. Patrick Goldstein, “Universal’s New Black Eye: African American Actors Disappear from ‘Couples Retreat’ Poster,” LATimes.com, Nov. 17, 2009.
61. Richard Verrier, “Hollywood Writers’ Age-Discrimination Case Settled,” LATimes.com, Jan. 23, 2010.
62. Burt Prelutsky, “Book Excerpt: Hollywood’s Age Discrimination,” BigHollywood.breitbart.com, Mar. 2, 2010.
63. Interview with Tom Fontana, Aug. 6, 2009.
64. Interview with Susan Harris, May 4, 2009.
65. Interview with Chris Chulack, May 21, 2009.
66. Interview with Gene Reynolds, May 7, 2009.
67. Interview with Fred Silverman, May 11, 2009.
68. Interview with Gary David Goldberg, May 19, 2009.
69. Interview with Barbara Fisher, July 6, 2009.
70. Interview with Marc Cherry, Aug. 9, 2009.
71. Interview with Leonard Stern, May 26, 2009.
72. Interview with Michael Brandman, June 8, 2009.
73. Interview with Herman Rush, June 22, 2009.
74. Brandon Tartikoff with Charles Leerhsen, The Last Great Ride (New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1992), 24–25.
75. Amelia Atlas, “Teen Sex on ABC Family Sparks Debate,” Newser.com, Feb. 1, 2009.
76. Interview with Susan Harris, May 4, 2009.
77. Interview with Fred Silverman, May 11, 2009.
78. Interview with Josh Brand, May 11, 2009.
79. Interview with Robert Guza, June 18, 2009.
80. Interview with Marcy Carsey, July 1, 2009.
81. Interview with Michelle Ganeless, July 6, 2009.
82. Interview with Marc Cherry, Aug. 9, 2009.
83. Interview with David Shore, June 24, 2009.
84. Interview with Barbara Fisher, July 6, 2009.
A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR
1. Allan Neuwirth, They’ll Never Put That on the Air (New York: Allworth Press, 2006), 5.
2. Stephen E. Kercher, Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 2006), 94.
3. Larry Gelbart, Laughing Matters (New York: Random House, 1998), 113.
4. Ibid., 21.
5. Sid Caesar, Where Have I Been? (New York: Crown, 1982), 39–40.
6. Ibid., 88.
7. Gelbart, Laughing Matters, 23–24.
8. Interview with Leonard Stern, May 26, 2009.
9. James L. Baughman, Same Time, Same Station (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), 136.
10. “Carl Reiner—Archive Interview Part 1,” Archive of American Television, http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/carl-reiner.
11. Carl Reiner, My Anecdotal Life: A Memoir (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2004), 230–31.
12. Ginny Weissman and Coyne Steven Sanders, The Dick Van Dyke Show (New York: Macmillan, 1993), 63–65.
13. Mary Tyler Moore, After All (New York: Putnam’s, 1995), 86.
14. Neuwirth, They’ll Never Put That on the Air, 14.
15. Ibid., 17.
16. Caesar, Where Have I Been?, 92–93.
17. Patrick Kevin Day, “Q&A with Mel Brooks,” LATimes.com, May 19, 2008.
18. Wesley Alan Britton, Beyond Bond: Spies in Fiction and Film (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005), 118.
19. Michael Kackman, Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005), 99.
20. Interview with Leonard Stern, May 26, 2009.
21. Interview with Allan Burns, May 26, 2009.
22. Interview with Leonard Stern, May 26, 2009.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Interview with Allan Burns, May 26, 2009.
26. Neuwirth, They’ll Never Put That on the Air, 33–35.
27. Ibid., 33–46.
28. Lynn Spigel and Michael Curtin, The Revolution Wasn’t Televised (New York: Routledge, 1997), 205.
29. Ibid., 52.
30. Gerald C. Gardner, Campaign Comedy: Political Humor from Clinton to Kennedy (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), 221.
31. Interview with Mike Dann, May 21, 2009.
32. Interview with George Schlatter, Apr. 21, 2009.
33. Interview with Gene Reynolds, May 7, 2009.
34. “James L. Brooks—Archive Interview Part 2,” Archive of American Television, www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/james-l-brooks.
35. Interview with Gene Reynolds, May 7, 2009.
36. Interview with Allan Burns, May 26, 2009.
37. Interview with Gene Reynolds, May 7, 2009.
38. Ken Bloom and Frank Vlastnik, Sitcoms: The 101 Greatest TV Comedies of All Time (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2007), 19.
39. Gelbart, Laughing Matters, 117.
40. “Norman Lear—Archive Interview Part 7 of 10,” Archive of American Television, Feb. 26, 1998, www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/norman-lear.
41. Carroll O’Connor, I Think I’m Outta Here (New York: Pocket Books, 1998), 75–76.
42. Ann Coulter, “Working Families from Malibu to East Hampton,” Townhall.com, Aug. 2, 2002.
43. Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO, Oct. 22, 2010.
44. Interview with Paul Bogart, May 21, 2009.
45. Neuwirth, They’ll Never Put That on the Air (New York: Allworth Press, 2006), 154.
46. “About Norman Lear,” LearCenter.org, www.learcenter.org/html/about/?cm=lear.
47. Interview with Allan Burns, May 26, 2009.
48. Ben Stein, The View from Sunset Boulevard (New York: Basic Books, 1979).
49. “James L. Brooks,” Archive of American Television, Jan. 17, 2003, www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/james-l-brooks.
50. David Manning White, Popular Cu
lture (New York: New York Times, 1975), 311.
51. Grant Tinker, Tinker in Television (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 94–95.
52. Interview with Allan Burns, May 26, 2009.
53. Neuwirth, They’ll Never Put That on the Air, 114–15.
54. Moore, After All, 69–70.
55. Joe Flint, “Super Bowl XLIV Game a Ratings Winner,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 9, 2010.
56. Gelbart, Laughing Matters, 31.
57. Interview with Gene Reynolds, May 7, 2009.
58. Ibid.
59. “Alda, Alan,” Museum of Broadcast Communications, www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=aldaalan.
60. Interview with Gene Reynolds, May 7, 2009.
61. Interview with Larry Gelbart, Apr. 20, 2009.
62. Gelbart, Laughing Matters, 31–32.
63. Ibid., 36.
64. Interview with Gene Reynolds, May 7, 2009.
65. Gelbart, Laughing Matters, 55–57.
66. Interview with Larry Gelbart, Apr. 20, 2009.
67. Stein, View from Sunset Boulevard, 19, 24, 70, 119.
68. “Hollywood Comedy Stars Release Four Pro-Obama Videos,” JewishJournal.com, Oct. 22, 2008, www.jewishjournal.com/bloggish/item/hollywood_comedy_stars_release_four_pro_obama_videos_20081022.
69. “Proust Questionnaire: Penny Marshall,” Vanity Fair, May 2007. http://www.vanity fair.com/culture/features/2007/05/proust_marshall200705
70. Elana Levine, Wallowing in Sex (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), 179.
71. Interview with Bill Bickley, June 11, 2009.
72. Levine, Wallowing in Sex, 197.
73. Interview with Fred Silverman, May 11, 2009.
74. Kirsten Fermaglich, “Bea Arthur,” Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia, JWA.org, http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/arthur-bea.
75. Interview with Susan Harris, May 4, 2009.
76. Dennis Ayers, “Billy Crystal’s Place in Gay Pop Culture History,” AfterElton.com, Oct. 12, 2007, www.afterelton.com/blog/dennis/Billy-Crystals-place-in-gay-pop-culture-history.
77. Leonard H. Goldenson, Beating the Odds (New York: Scribner’s, 1991), 367–68.
78. Interview with Marcy Carsey, July 1, 2009.
79. Interview with Fred Silverman, May 11, 2009.
80. Interview with Susan Harris, May 4, 2009.
81. David Bianculli, Teleliteracy: Taking Television Seriously (New York: Continuum, 2000), 283.
82. Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1991), 157.
83. Ken Levine, “The Cheers Episode I’m Still Writing in My Head,” KenLevine.blogspot.com, July 21, 2008, http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2008/07/cheers-episode-im-still-writing-in-my.html.
84. Bianculli, Teleliteracy, 266.
85. Interview with Gary David Goldberg, May 19, 2009.
86. Interview with Marcy Carsey, July 1, 2009.
87. Brandon Tartikoff with Charles Leerhsen, The Last Great Ride (New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1992), 17–18.
88. Darrell Y. Hamamoto, Nervous Laughter (New York: Praeger, 1989), 136.
89. Tartikoff with Leerhsen, Last Great Ride, 16–17.
90. Michael Eric Dyson, Is Bill Cosby Right? (New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2005), 2–3.
91. Interview with Marcy Carsey, July 1, 2009.
92. Ibid.
93. Ibid.
94. Interview with Brandon Stoddard, May 28, 2009.
95. Louis Chunovic, One Foot on the Floor (New York: TV Books, 2000), 111.
96. Robert Kubey, Creating Television (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004), 139, 146.
97. Brian Doherty, “Matt Groening,” Mother Jones, Mar.–Apr. 1999.
98. Mark I. Pinsky, The Gospel According to the Simpsons (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007), 6.
99. Chris Turner, Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Defined a Generation (New York: Da Capo Press, 2005), 223.
100. Interview with Sandy Grushow, Dec. 9, 2009.
101. Kubey, Creating Television, 147.
102. Bonnie J. Dow, Prime-Time Feminism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 154.
103. Dan Quayle, “Address to the Commonwealth Club of California,” May 19, 1992, www.vicepresidentdanquayle.com/speeches_StandingFirm_CCC_3.html.
104. Dow, Prime-Time Feminism, 154–55.
105. Janet McCabe and Kim Akass, Quality TV: Contemporary American Television and Beyond (New York: I. B. Tauris, 2007), 59.
106. David Blankenhorn, Fatherless America (New York: Basic Books, 1995), 69.
107. Charles Murray, “When It Comes to Illegitimacy, We’re Living in Separate Worlds: An Update on the White Underclass,” Blog.American.com, May 14, 2009, http://blog.american.com/?p=714.
108. Stephen M. Silverman, “Candice Bergen Agrees with Dan Quayle,” People.com, July 11, 2002, www.people.com/people/article/0,,624379,00.html.
109. Alan Carter, “The Essential ‘Murphy Brown’ Interview,” Entertainment Weekly, May 15, 1992.
110. Larry David, “The Roving Thoughts of a Liberal Insomniac,” HuffingtonPost.com, June 28, 2005.
111. Interview with Peter Mehlman, May 12, 2009.
112. Interview with Marta Kauffman, June 23, 2009.
113. Interview with Barbara Fisher, July 6, 2009.
114. Interview with Marta Kauffman, June 23, 2009.
115. Interview with Peter Mehlman, May 12, 2009.
116. Steven Capsuto, Alternate Channels (New York: Ballantine, 2000).
117. “Family Outings,” Advocate, May 30, 1995.
118. Interview with Marta Kauffman, June 23, 2009.
119. Malinda Lo, “Back in the Day: Coming Out with Ellen,” AfterEllen.com, Apr. 9, 2005.
120. Richard Natale, “Will Power,” Advocate, Sept. 15, 1998.
121. James Hillis, “Interview with Will & Grace’s Max Mutchnick,” AfterElton.com, Mar. 5, 2008.
122. “Q&A: Willie Garson,” Out, June 2000.
123. Jaime J. Weinman, “The Macleans.ca Interview: Darren Star,” Macleans.ca, Apr. 17, 2008.
124. “Interview with Darren Star,” CNN Live Today, July 17, 2002, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/17/lt.06.html.
125. “Samantha Jones: Character Bio,” HBO.com, www.hbo.com/sex-and-the-city/index.html#/sex-and-the-city/cast-and-crew/samantha-jones/bio/samantha-jones.html.
126. Katey Rich, “Interview: Sex and the City Creator and Cast on the Show’s Legacy,” CinemaBlend.com, May 28, 2010.
127. “Seth MacFarlane,” Maxim.com, Sept. 25, 2009.
128. Amy Wallace, “Seth MacFarlane Sounds Off,” Details.com, Aug. 2010.
129. Brandon Voss, “BGF: Seth MacFarlane,” Advocate, Feb.–Mar. 2008.
130. Amy Wallace, “Seth MacFarlane Sounds Off.”
131. Brandon Voss, “BGF: Seth MacFarlane.”
132. Richard Lawson, “The Most Conservative and Most Liberal Shows on TV,” Gawker .com, http://gawker.com/5063314/the-most-conservative-and-most-liberal-shows-on-tv.
133. Lynette Rice, “It Hurts to Laugh,” EW.com, Jan. 8, 2007.
134. Nick Juliano, “CBS Sitcom Takes Stealthy Swipe at Fox News,” RawStory.com, Oct. 14, 2008.
135. “Tina Fey,” Believermag.com, Nov. 2003, www.believermag.com/issues/200311 /?read=interview_fey.
136. “Tina Fey on Sarah Palin: ‘If She Wins . . . I’m Leaving Earth,” HuffingtonPost.com, Oct. 13, 2008.
137. “PBS Weeds Out Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin Jokes,” Gawker.com, Nov. 16, 2010, http://gawker.com/5691590/pbs-weeds-out-tina-feys-sarah-palin-jokes.
MAKING THE RIGHT CRY
1. Aaron Spelling, A Prime-Time Life (New York: St. Martin’s, 1
996), 3.
2. Ibid., 8.
3. Ibid., 44.
4. Ibid., 36–37.
5. Ibid., 44.
6. Beringia Zen, “Rod Serling,” Unitarian Universalist Historical Society, www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/rodserling.html.
7. Jack Gould, “Playhouse 90 Gets Under Way with Story About Red Spies, Sneak Attack,” New York Times, Oct. 5, 1956.
8. Ken Tucker, “Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval,” Entertainment Weekly, Dec. 1, 1995.
9. “Controversy at Moorpark College,” RodSerling.com, www.rodserling.com/JMmp68speech.htm.
10. Karen Anijar, Teaching Toward the 24th Century: Star Trek as Social Curriculum (New York: Falmer Press, 2000), 77–79.
11. Brannon Braga, “Every Religion Has a Mythology,” International Atheist Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, June 24 and 25, 2006.
12. James Lileks, “A Conservative Trek,” NationalReview.com, Sept. 28, 2007, www. nationalreview.com/articles/222332/conservative-trek/james-lileks#.
13. Nichelle Nichols, Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories (New York: Putnam, 1994), 196.
14. Daniel Bernardi, “Star Trek” and History Race-ing Toward a White Future (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999), 37.
15. Anijar, Teaching Toward the 24th Century, 79.
16. Spelling, Prime-Time Life, 62–63.
17. Leonard H. Goldenson, Beating the Odds (New York: Scribner’s, 1991), 324.
18. Spelling, Prime-Time Life, 68.
19. Ibid., 65.
20. Ibid., 66–67.
21. Ibid.
22. Kubey, Creating Television, 103.
23. Interview with Fred Silverman, May 11, 2009.
24. Interview with Leonard Goldberg, May 20, 2009.
25. Spelling, Prime-Time Life, 115.
26. Interview with Leonard Goldberg, May 20, 2009.
27. Spelling, Prime-Time Life, 109.
28. Interview with Fred Silverman, May 11, 2009.
29. Interview with Leonard Goldberg, May 20, 2009.
30. Elana Levine, Wallowing in Sex (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), 154.
31. Spelling, Prime-Time Life, 110.
32. Ibid., 156.
33. Ibid., 174–75.
34. YouTube.com, “Ed Asner’s Message to the 9/11 Truth Movement,” International Citizens Inquiry Into 9/11, May 25, 2004, www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dVNDQWhtMc.