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In Almost Everything I've Written There Is A Thread Of This: Man's Seemingly Palpable Need To Dislike Someone Other Than Himself.

A Word To The Wise To All The Children Of The Twentieth Century, Whether Their Concern Be Pediatrics Or Geriatrics, Whether They Crawl On Hands And Knees And Wear Diapers Or Walk With A Cane And Comb Their Beards. There's A Wondrous Magic To Christmas, And There's A Special Power Reserved For Little People. In Short, There's Nothing Mightier Than The Meek, And A Merry Christmas To Each And All.

In Eleven Or Twelve Years Of Writing, Mike, I Can Lay Claim To At Least This: I Have Never Written Beneath Myself. I Have Never Written Anything That I Didn't Want My Name Attached To. I Have Probed Deeper In Some Scripts And I've Been More Successful In Some Than Others. But All Of Them That Have Been On, You Know, I'll Take My Lick. They're Mine And That's The Way I Wanted Them.

But It Makes You Wonder, Doesn't It? Just How Normal Are We? Just Who Are The People We Nod Our Hellos To As We Pass On The Street? A Rather Good Question To Ask - Particularly In The Twilight Zone.

You Could Do Much More In Movies Than You Could On Tv, And Even Movies Were Heavily Censored. But In Television, The Areas Of Timorousness Were Fairly Laid Out. Race Relations. Sex. Politics. There Was A Whole Conglomeration Of Taboo Themes. And Even To Date, Though Television Has Become A Much Freer Medium, It's Still Far Less Free, Far Less Creatively Untrammeled Than Are The Movies. They're Infinitely More Adult In That Respect.