happen. to raise that money, promote that, sell those tickets and coordinate these schedules. arts administration or something, i d like to see more programs in arts administration that are funded by the federal government. because not everybody what is it? like, you know, 1% of everybody that picks up a violin gets a seat on a really, really esteemed orchestra. the other 90% teach or play something that is not, you know, for the boston or the cleveland or the big five if you will or for the san francisco, or for and utah, or dallas, well these are the great symphonies they don t get there. so for many people just as i have realized that there are ancillary jobs, there are other parts of my own field that i might have worked in and just as happy. i see that now at my age. i realize that s true in the classical musical world, as well. there are other things i could have done. i mean there s times i sit there at the philharmonic and think, i d trade places with meda for a
see him very much because the interns that were there, we worked eight hours, 12 hours, and most of these guys were all of the interns i ve worked with, they were all just alcoholics in training. they d have all the parties in all the houses senate office buildings and i came in and i was like gomer pile, what are y all doing now? what y all wanna do after work? and they have a list of all the national association of carpet shampooers meeting, the national association of q-tip weaver meeting. and all of these organizations meeting and these guys i worked with, they knew the skinny on all of them in terms of food and booze. they d say remember that reception with the q-tip people? they had great food, they had lobster there. and i m sitting there going, well, i guess we best go over and say howdy to the q-tip people. and you know, we would i would go and all they would do is party. and we did a bit of that. but i also had a guy say to me, do you want to work on a project oth
back in season six. and we agreed we d do it for a couple more years. i would have done it next year and the year after that. but the truth of the matter is that nbc is in its predicament and probably need to scrape the paint off the building and start all over again. they ve got their pride. they re like anybody else in media, they re competitive and want to win and don t want nbc to stay in this predicament. i ll finish this by saying and i mentioned this to someone else. working for nbc was not insignificant in my decision. i did not know tina that well before the show began. i had met her on saturday night live. but i had little to do with her because she was the head writer and you didn t interact with her in that way. lorn was the one who asked me to do the television series with tina. but the decision was also a part of or a silver lining was to work with nbc, which i think is the greatest of the three networks in the long-term when you look at the stocks of the