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From NBC, ABC, CBS To YouTube -- My Journey Into The Future Of Television

By Gary Kott on Feb 26, 2011 at 04:00 AM in Blogs

For years I wrote and produced in Hollywood -- every network, every studio many times over -- contributed to one of the biggest hits in the history of television -- worked with iconic superstars, famous directors, masterful technicians --

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From The Firewood Pile To The Louvre

By Gary Kott on Feb 22, 2011 at 04:00 PM in Blogs

Well, maybe not the Louvre -- yet -- but you can find this bright red fire hydrant made from a log at Gary Kott’s Creative Warehouse --

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An Ode To Morty In Tools

By Gary Kott on Feb 16, 2011 at 05:15 AM in Blogs

I tell this story in detail in the Sculpture section of Gary Kott's Creative Warehouse -- I'm not going to try to shorten it here -- I'll wreck it --

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The Tad Mosel Memorial Theatre -- No Stage, No Props, No Actors

By Gary Kott on Feb 09, 2011 at 06:00 AM in Blogs

Nobody loved theatre more than my good, departed friend -- Tad Mosel wrote plays, taught plays, dreamed plays --

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How I Saved $37,000 At A NYC Art Gallery

By Gary Kott on Feb 07, 2011 at 05:00 AM in Blogs

Here's a tip for anyone who's ever walked into a SoHo art gallery, found a painting that would look perfect in their apartment or summer house, then glanced at the price tag and went, "gulp" --

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Hello Out There? Does Anybody Hear Me?

By Gary Kott on Feb 06, 2011 at 06:00 AM in Blogs

I'm not used to this -- I'm a Hollywood scriptwriter -- when I write and produce for TV I know where and when my shows are going on the air -- 8 PM or 9 PM -- Monday night or Friday --

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What to do with Your Spare 2-Gang Toggle Switch

By Gary Kott on Feb 02, 2011 at 07:44 PM in Blogs

You might not even know that you have one -- or what it does -- don’t feel stupid -- I had no idea either until after I’d already used one -- I’ll fill you in...

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My Gift to Humanity -- The Storynar

By Gary Kott on Feb 02, 2011 at 03:47 PM in Blogs

When I first read Wordsworth's profound words, “To begin, begin,” I was thunderstruck with a life’s ambition -- to create something so original, so profound that the impact would be felt...

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Welcome to My Warehouse -- Ugh

By Gary Kott on Feb 02, 2011 at 06:00 AM in Blogs

This isn’t easy for me -- inviting people into my workspace -- letting them poke around my stuff -- saying things like, “You call that art?” -- “That’s not writing, that’s typing” -- but sometimes in life...

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I found a thirty-five-year-old can of film in a storage box and sent it to a digital transfer service -- the reel is all that remains of the many TV commercials I wrote and produced before I left for Hollywood -- luckily, the images survived though the colors didn't -- at one point I had a carton filled with television commercials I created -- but, alas, I lost that carton during a period of pure chaos and bedlam...



Deep down at the bottom of the storage box I found a bunch of print ads I wrote eons ago -- the first batch was a campaign for Arrow Shirts -- my partner was the talented art director John Lucci -- our goal was to make very inexpensive shirts look and sound rich and upscale -- we decided to forgo working with perfect-looking male models in lieu of regular guys with crooked noses and craggy skin -- click the images below for larger views..

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ARROW ADS

ARROW ADS

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At the time, fashion designer Halston was planning to introduce a men's shirt line -- they contacted the bosses at Young & Rubicam and requested the Arrow team to work up a spec campaign -- John Lucci and I picked a movie theme to introduce the shirts -- we decided to feature extreme close-ups of details in order to convey a sense of the highest quality -- I left Y&R soon after and headed to Hollywood -- I have no idea what happened to the campaign after I left, or if Halston ever went ahead and produced men's shirts...

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Hollywood career: Writer/Supervising Producer of The Cosby Show during its five consecutive years of number one ratings. Writer of pilots, screenplays, and other TV shows including Fame, Remington Steele, Hotel, The White Shadow.  Awards: Peabody Award, Writers Guild of America Award, NAACP Image Award, two Humanitas Prize nominations, one Emmy Award nomination. Previous career: Madison Avenue -- Vice President/Creative Director of Ogilvy & Mather -- copywriter, Young & Rubicam -- wrote and produced national television commercials and print ads -- nominated for many Clio Awards. Playwright: Plays appeared at the Actors Studio in New York, the Grove Street Playhouse, and the Santa Monica Playhouse. Folk Artist: Original works of sculpture and paintings.  Guest speaker: Museum of Broadcasting in New York and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Education:  B.A. Marietta College -- Distinguished Alumnus Award.  

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