200 Words with Paul Dini #29 - There Will Be Sandwiches: Part One
9 Posted on Sep 26, 2008 in articles by Conor Kilpatrick |
September 26, 2008
“Jeffrey Katzenberg is meeting with potential producers for a new TV project,” warbled the assistant over the phone, “And he’d like you to join us here at Dreamworks for a meeting tomorrow night!”
I received this call a few years back while still at Warner Bros. heaping abuse on Daffy Duck’s head. I thanked the caller but said I had heard through the animation grapevine that only writers from “The Simpsons” and “Seinfeld” would be considered for the new show. “But Jeffrey wants the producer of 'Batman.' The assistant stammered. I tried to explain that Bruce Timm was the artistic producer on “Batman” and that I was one of the writer producers. Perhaps our names had been confused by mistake. “No, no mistake,” the assistant fluttered, “The producer of ‘Batman’, Jeffrey was quite insistent…” Then, she added with a tinge of hopeful desperation: “There will be sandwiches…”
Oh well, sandwiches! Why didn’t she say so? That sure beat coaxing me over with something lame like, I dunno, money. I told her I’d be there. Besides, I had never been in a meeting with Mr. Katzenberg and I was curious to observe his working methods for myself. And hey, free sandwiches.
Paul Dini is the Emmy and Eisner Award winning writer of Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Detective Comics, Countdown among many, many other things. You can find him online at either kingofbreakfast.livejournal.com or http://www.jinglebelle.com/.
Comments
"You just can't beat a good sandwich!"
Unless you have a good stick.
I like Grilled Cheese.
Posted by Preacher on 09/27/08 at 02:45 PM
Am I the only one who, after reading the title, pictured Daniel Day-Lewis fully mustachioed eating a hoagie? Anyone?
Posted by YoSoyJu on 09/27/08 at 09:01 PM
Put thin sliced ham on that grilled cheese and I'm in
Posted by doddzilla on 09/27/08 at 09:11 PM
@ dodzilla
Grilled ham and cheese is good, but I grew up eating a lot of grilled BOLOGNA & cheese sandwiches. Maybe it's because we were poor but now I love 'em!
Posted by bearnhart on 09/27/08 at 11:57 PM
I just read my previous comment and...I have issues.
Posted by bearnhart on 09/27/08 at 11:59 PM
What's more important, the bread, or the meat?
Posted by SixGun on 09/28/08 at 08:15 AM
The cheese?
Posted by Neb on 09/28/08 at 09:14 AM
Money is overrated. You just can't beat a good sandwich!
Posted by ChrisNeseman on 09/26/08 at 04:57 PM