Comments on: Ed part two.

By: Beth the copy editor

Beth the copy editor — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:55:35 +0000

I am late catching up. Just Bulbs was yours? But there was a store called Just Bulbs! Did you open that store just so there could be a bit on the show??

By: Jim Ward

Jim Ward — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:16:22 +0000

Oooh, I’ll play! Was Ed = Brad Pitt?

By: Sally

Sally — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:56:44 +0000

You are so much smarter than I am that I find it uplifting.

I have no knack for the zeitgeist. I didn’t know Ms.Ephron launched a play. I know she is concerned about her neck. Nora’s parents were creative partners. I don’t know if they were happy. But I do love “Desk Set” so I should be kind to their child. Or their children. I think they all work together.

By: Merrill Markoe

Merrill Markoe — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:47:58 +0000

Dear Sally:
I was actually just kidding about being lured. I was just exaggerating to try to illuminate how bizarre it is to see yourself included in an article with a lurid title. For a minute I thought I was part of a Phill and Nancy Garrido expose. Plus it seemed all the more absurd that someone had to find a benign picture taken by an L.A. Times photographer 25 years ago to give a very weak premise a little more heft. I also found the extremely loaded word ‘lured’ to be funny. The only thing that lured me was the naive idea that becoming creative partners with a romantic interest when we were both on the way up was a smart reasonable thing to do…a lesson that all who attempt it find out is a very very dangerous proposition. George Burns and Gracie Allen made it look good. Very few others escaped unhammered. And Gracie died young.
‘Just Bulbs’ was mine. But I agree with you about not dwelling on 25 years ago. As it turns out, I agree with you so much that I am not going to compose the rest of that list.
As for Ms. Ephron, I stand in awe of the way she has her finger on the zeitgeist. She just launched a hit play. Her books are on the best seller list for years at a time. Some of her movies were giant. Some lesser. That’s the movie biz.(And personally, she has been very sweet to me.)
PS: Time to lose the cigarettes.

By: Sally

Sally — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:45:52 +0000

It’s not about diet. Cigarettes and restylane. Take a stroll down restylane. I want to hug whoever named this.

I don’t think of you as lured. You’ve been credited with creating stupid pet tricks and stupid human tricks. What are some others? I thought just bulbs and just shades were yours too.

Here’s a question to distract you from wondering whether you were lured. How come Nora Ephron is allowed to make movie after movie even though they suck and most of them don’t make any money? Now Julia and Julie is making money so she will make another movie.

This restylane is just an illusion. Nothing can stop time and life is too short to waste any of it wondering what you were thinking 25 years ago.

By: mdingo98

mdingo98 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:12:09 +0000

cheers to merrilly and her dogs

By: Tom Sullivan

Tom Sullivan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:27:13 +0000

You are generosity itself!
I don’t wish to appear ungrateful but could you possibly make me a gaffer?
I always suspected I have hidden gaffing abilities.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:24:49 +0000

Of all of the people with a knowledge and awareness of the past relationship between the gal whose unique grocery store experience you described in this post (let’s call her Merrily) and this Secret Double Life Ed fellow, does it ever seem like this Merrily person is the only one who has actually moved past the 20 year old breakup and is long over it?

By: Merrill Markoe

Merrill Markoe — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:17:13 +0000

That is definitely the kind of idea I can run with. You will, of course, receive screen credit. Perhaps something along the lines of Key Grip or Best Boy.

By: Tom Sullivan

Tom Sullivan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:49:25 +0000

I think you’re on to something here.
I suggest you turn it into a movie.
You should write and direct it. Jennifer Aniston should play you. Whoever she’s dating this month can play Ed.
I hope you’ll consider making the movie in German with subtitles.