🎧 I Don’t Get Important Phone Calls
Rob Long on the bluster of having an assistant and the reboot showbiz needs
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Rob Long’s friend once wrote a line for a TV show where a character reveals he doesn’t have voicemail. You see, the character, explains, “I don’t get important phone calls.” The network executive in charge, however, was not having it, bellowing that no one would care about someone not important enough to not get important calls. And that was that. Rob himself has thoughts on the function assistants play as status symbol in the industry — and what his trip in a shipping container from Seattle to Shanghai says about it all.
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My father repped the EP of My Favorite Martian. The network told him to change a line in a script, saying "A Martian Would Never Say That".