As the writers strike enters its second month, Howard A. Rodman reflects on his late father, the writer Howard Rodman Sr., and argues that 'the fight to preserve the writers room is many things,' not least 'a fight for working conditions that extend and enrich human lives.'
They wrote pages in Los Angeles that were put on airplanes in hopes that they could be shot the next morning in New York. They used every prescription drug available to keep up the pace.
To be fair, the creativity that emerged from that crunch — my father’s work, Stirling’s work, and the work of wildly talented freelancers — was astonishing. Episodes of those series were nominated for five WGA awards and won three of them. But the relentless pace took its toll.— my father had what we publicly referred to as “pneumonia.” A more accurate description would be a complete physical and mental collapse. It lasted the better part of two years.
Had there been other shoulders to help bear the load — had there been a room of writers, rather than two lone and overburdened men — it’s not unreasonable to think he might have lived into his 70s. Or 80s. Or even longer .
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