Just about everybody knows the phrase "jumping the shark," but here is the real story of how it came about. Fred Fox Jr. ought to know, since he wrote the infamous episode now enshrined in our cultural mythology.
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Work gloves at the end of the 2006/2007 television season (photo by Richard Blair)
Blood, Sweat, and Tedium: Confessions of a Hollywood Juicer by Michael Taylor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Life in Hollywood, below-the-line
Work gloves at the end of the 2006/2007 television season (photo by Richard Blair)
About Me
- Michael Taylor
- Born and raised in a rural pocket of the San Francisco Bay Area, I graduated from UC Santa Cruz clutching a degree in Aesthetic Studies. Armed with this paper sword, boundless ignorance, and a vision of Hollywood heavily influenced by the movie “Shampoo” (and seriously, what guy didn’t want to be Warren Beatty back then?), I proceeded to march on Hollywood in the spirit of a young man seeking adventure, a living -- and if Lady Luck deigned to smile upon me, perhaps a small fortune. Adventure, I found. A living, I made, but although Lady Luck has thus far kept me safe from harm on the road-raging freeways and bullet-riddled streets of Los Angeles, that elusive fortune remains but a shiny mirage on the road ahead. I'm now playing out the string on a thirty year career in set lighting, trying to hang on until the bitter end.
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Blood, Sweat, and Tedium: Confessions of a Hollywood Juicer by Michael Taylor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
1 comment:
Very Cool.
I think if I had written that episode (and had a whole meme named for it), I'd have been bragging about it for years!
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