Following is the transcription of another phone call between a TV director and her studio head. Both are having second thoughts about pitching my life as a sitcom.

The “glamour” shot of Sharon J. Anderson requested by the TV Director and her studio head.

Good morning, Sheila. How are you? Me? Well, I’m conflicted. Yeah, it’s about this Sharon J. Anderson thing. I don’t know what to call it. You, too? Uh-huh. I know, I know. Her “glamour” shot is, to say the least, visually challenging. In her art parlance, she is blessed with a face only a cubist could appreciate. She is no Kardashian or Brady or even a Simpson. There is no bold, uncompromising vision here.

So how do we sell this? Admittedly, she’s unique — a sophisticated and eloquent woman who is crass and swears like a sailor. An art and doodad collector. A living, breathing contradiction. An embarrassment of dichotomies.

Did you see the additional photos she emailed overnight?

A yellow duck family train in front of books about death and suicide.
More yellow ducks in the kitchen above Wendell Berry’s poem, “Our Real Work.”

Action figures in front of Holocaust books and a yellow duck toy train in front of books about death and dying. Then in the kitchen, no less, more yellow ducks atop blue bottles next to a poem in a blue measuring cup that begins, “It may be that when we no longer know what to do . . .” well, I no longer know what to do.

What’s that? Would other networks want it? I thought about that, Sheila. Animal Planet, The Food Network, QVC . . .

But there’s not nearly the swag of subject matter that we have with Sharon’s dichotomies. Art and doodads. Art and tshotkes. Art and Whatits. Yeah, I hear ya, the irony of “whatits” when we don’t know what this is. I say we just cut to the chase and decide whether or not to proceed based on what we’ve got so far.

Thanks, it is brilliant, isn’t it? Let me put together a video of photos of Sharon’s art plus photos of her home and kitsch, and I’ll email it to you for your feedback before we send it upstairs. Then we can circle back on the synergy. In the meantime, I’ll tell Sharon to have her girl call my girl, and we’ll schedule something before my next development window. Ciao!

Sharon J. Anderson waiting for the green light, the thumbs-up, the cleared for takeoff, the official “good to go”!

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7 responses to “Drawing Out Laughter — Part II”

  1. Sharon J. Anderson Avatar

    I don’t have a “girl,” at least not the kind of girl Sloane is referring to. I answer my own phone, pay my own bills, do my own laundry, clean my own toilet and balance my own checkbook. I do have a driver, however. (Thank you, Adrienne.🙏)

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    Charlotte Rogers

    I am holding my breath. Go Girl!

  3. Adrienne Avatar
    Adrienne

    Kudos to Sloane and Sheila for recognizing your dichotomies and trying to make it work! I’m assuming you didn’t point out the candy self. That may be too much for them.

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    Trish

    I’m partial, no doubt, but the pictures of you are even more endearing than the whimsy of your beautiful little home.

    1. Sharon J. Anderson Avatar

      Trish: apparently I need an agent. Interested?

  5. Sharon J. Anderson Avatar

    I was saving my candy shelf as a pièce de résistance in the event Sloane and Sheila and the powers-that-be decide to give me a pass. If five pounds of gummy bears don’t seal the deal, I don’t know what will.💪

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