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I have a masters degree in film and teach film at a top tier university, An over twenty five year professional career and I walk into pitches with a fully realized bible pilot and seven season arc, and often times told it’s not enough. But Lena Dunham, cool.
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.@LenaDunham was 23 when she sold #Girls to HBO with a page-and-a-half-long pitch, without a character nor a plot thr.cm/cMIzUT
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I lost my TV show for being white when UPN decided it would focus on an African-American audience. That was the third job I lost for being white. The other two in corporate America. (They told me directly.)
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EVERYTHING is poorly received if you do it poorly. If a character in Dilbert happened to be black and no character mentioned it or addressed it--nobody would raise an eyebrow. People only get upset when they look like THIS:
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Some things are poorly received no matter how well they are done. See "Mt. Rushmore." If you didn't know that, you might not be as experienced in this field as I am.
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I’ve been writing and drawing comic books for nearly 40 years, from Spider-Man to Savage Dragon and I’ve managed to introduce characters of various races quite successfully. All it took was actually trying.
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