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Correcting others in public is an irresistible temptation — and almost always a mistake. Rob learned that lesson early, as a young writer on Cheers, when he pointed out that a character, a sort of ’80s finance type, couldn’t actually be arrested for launching a hostile takeover as the line was written. He was right. But it annoyed everyone. The lesson stuck: Knowing when to let things go matters a lot more than knowing you’re correct.
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Good one -- and these are Words of Wisdom.
I had to learn the value of shutting the fuck up the hard way -- which might be the only way we truly learn anything -- during my 40 years in Hollywood, a lesson that was burned into my brain after a particular loose-lips-sink-ships moment of verbal carelessness cost me a four-day commercial that would have paid the equivalent of $6,000 in today's money.
As a career below-the-liner whose best years weren't terribly lucrative, that hurt -- and I never forgot it. Lesson learned.