From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V2 #114 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Friday, May 19 2000 Volume 02 : Number 114 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: b/Jeff Pruitt has been fired [GHighPine@aol.com] Re: b/Jeff Pruitt has been fired [allenw ] Re: b/Jeff Pruitt has been fired ["David S. Bratman" > Are you sure? Because directors have very little power in series television ... but I have to reread it, maybe the analogy works if the generals were overseeing specific battles. But still, how could one of the directors be the number one general? Gayle ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 10:46:01 -0500 (CDT) From: allenw Subject: Re: b/Jeff Pruitt has been fired On Thu, 18 May 2000 GHighPine@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 5/17/00 9:50:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time, allenw@io.com > writes: > > << sband being fired.) But does anyone have any idea who the General is? > Well, the "Generals" in general have been established to be the > Directors. > > >> > > Are you sure? Because directors have very little power in series > television ... but I have to reread it, maybe the analogy works if the > generals were overseeing specific battles. But still, how could one of the > directors be the number one general? I admit, "producers" would seem more apt than "directors." I'm going by what David Fury posted early on in the developing firestorm on the Bronze: ==== Erin says: (Wed May 17 11:48:04 2000 205.188.196.54) Erin - I'm not a general. Generals are the Directors. I'm just a lowly corporal in the infantry === (Apparently, Fury mis-typed his own name for that one, but it was in color, and he acknowledged the mistake later, so it was actually Fury). The name "Gareth Davies" has been floated for "the" General, but I'm not sure of his position. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 13:04:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "David S. Bratman" Subject: Re: b/Jeff Pruitt has been fired Gareth Davies is one of the show's producers. I suspect that "producers and/or other executives who are in charge of things" is what was meant by "the Directors", not the film directors, i.e. the guys who say "action" and "cut", who as was noted are in tv relatively lowly hired hands. I read Pruitt's fable, and found it a lot more astonishing than a lot of the scripts. The web of interpersonal relations, friendship and strife, among the Scoobies is as nothing to what we're privileged to glimpse here. I suspect it's compounded of about equal parts legitimate gripe and self-delusion. Pruitt apparently sees SMG as a jealous prima donna: this is not a view that's come to my eyes before. To be fair, she can be said to have a legitimate beef, which Pruitt semi-acknowledges: stunt doubles are not usually made celebrities of while the show is still on the air. While I suspect Pruitt is in the right on his concerns about safety issues, if he thinks his stunt direction is art he's badly mistaken. I'm sure he works hard and does a good job, but the big battle in this week's episode was no masterpiece of drama no matter how hard it was to put together and get right: as Don said, it looked more like a big play from a football game. But then, a common misapprehension of the second-rate is that Effort = Art. ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V2 #114 *****************************