Andrew Nicholls and I hardly had a moment to paint an old lady during the hustley-bustley year of 1991. We were as hot as Meg Ryan before she surgically turned her lips into sea-plane pontoons.
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Darrell Vickers – Have Mercy Part 1 – I Cheat the Hagman
Posted in life, Opinion, Review, Television with tags Andrew Nicholls, Bob Segarini, Comedy, Darrell Vickers, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Have Mercy, Hollywood, Larry Hagman, Lorimar, Malibu, Mary Martin, Pilot, Television, Tim Flack, Toronto on November 10, 2020 by segariniDarrell Vickers – Shut Up Kids Part 3 – Production Everything About it is Appealing!
Posted in Opinion, Review, Television with tags Andrew Nicholls, Bob Segarini, Comedy, Dabney Coleman, Darrell Vickers, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drexell's Class, Fox Studio, Hollywood, Lorimar, Shut Up Kids, Shut Up Kids Part 3, Television, Toronto on October 13, 2020 by segarini
Every young writer’s wet dream of dreams is to get a pilot picked up and have it coroneted as a network series. A Holy Grail filled with Hebrew National Hotdogs. It’s the equivalent of finding out your rich uncle died and left you his sex cult. It’s like going to the cupboard and discovering someone has eaten all your Fiber One cereal and all that’s left is Captain Crunch. Like finding out the doctor who gave you your last colonoscopy died very slowly in a car wreck. But it’s not all candy corn sprinkled with fructose. No siree Robert. By the time we reached the conclusion of this torturous, tortuous road, Andrew Nicholls and I looked worse than Nick Nolte’s mugshot.
Darrell Vickers – Shut Up Kids Part 2: Casting – A Little Dab’ll Do Ya
Posted in Opinion, Review, Television with tags Andrew Nicholls, Bob Segarini, Comedy, Dabney Coleman, Darrell Vickers, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drexell's Class, Fox Studio, Hollywood, Lorimar, Shut Up Kids, Television, Toronto on September 29, 2020 by segarini
Very few execs dare to call themselves writers. Sitting alone in a room for hours on end, pounding out words that some future idiot will tear to pieces, is not a lot of fun. It is work of the dullest nature. Drudgery. For many, it is tedium beyond the endurance of saints. Like having psychotic gnomes drilling birdhouse-sized holes into your cerebral cortex as you stare bleakly at a white computer screen that mocks your suffering. The abject blood-freezing fear of the untyped page has turned even the most talented of scribes to booze, drugs, bocce ball and eventually blessed death.
Darrell Vickers – Shut Up Kids
Posted in Opinion, Review, Television with tags Andrew Nicholls, Bob Segarini, Comedy, Darrell Vickers, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drexell's Class, Fox Studio, Hollywood, Lorimar, Shut Up Kids, Television, Toronto on September 22, 2020 by segarini
For the Want of a Horse
Andrew Nicholls and I were finishing up our last year of The Tonight Show and we were busier than Robert Downey Jr.’s lawyer in the ‘90s. Any reasonably priced writing assignment that didn’t involve a rapping kangaroo was graciously accepted.
Darrell Vickers – The Paul Sands of Iwo Jima
Posted in Opinion, Review, Television with tags Andrew Nicholls, Bob Segarini, Comedy, Darrell Vickers, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Failed TV Pilots, Girl's Best Friend Unaired TV Pilot, Harry Nilsson, Hollywood, Lorimar, Matthew Perry, Paul Sand, Smarmy Les Moonves, Television, Toronto, Warner Brothers on September 15, 2020 by segarini
When the treacherous and unpredictable seas of art and commerce enervate even the most dauntless of our kind, itinerant scribes oft times find themselves in want of a home. A sufficiently peaceful harbor in which to moor their buffeted and battered vessels. ‘Tis then we weary wordsmiths seek out a major studio in hopes of procuring an overall deal.
Darrell Vickers: How I Went from a Suite at the Four Seasons to a Shitty, Bug Infested Apartment on Avenue Road in Three Easy Steps.
Posted in Opinion with tags Andrew Nicholls, Apartment 2C, Arnie Sultan, Check It Out, CTV, Darrell Vickers, DBAWIS, Don Adams, Don't Believe a Word I Say, George Carlin, Get Smart, HBO, segarini, Tail O’ the Cock, Television, Todd Thicke, Toronto on November 5, 2014 by segarini
Andrew and I had died on gone to showbiz heaven. We’d somehow been hired to come in and help George Carlin put together a pilot he was writing and starring in for HBO. This was about as likely as John McCain quitting the Senate to teach Anger Management seminars.
