compromise, and then some...

It's a funny thing, compromise.  The dictionaries describe it as an agreement made by both sides in a dispute.  This, however, does not apply to "compromise" in the entertainment business.  I co-created a comedy series.  The 'pilot' (first episode) is currently being filmed in the bay area and compromise is spreading like the black plague.  There's great beauty in looking at a completed piece of work on paper; the beauty however, stops here.  What many people don't know is that the final product is rarely what the creators had in mind; that's why they call it "product," not art.

Certain scenes get cut, time is 'compromised' and the final 'product' suffers.  Often, this is blamed on the creators (yours truly) and not the half-hearted production that took the script, chopped it up and spit it out in a slimy filth.  But whatever, right?  It happens all the time; every day.

Still, I wish 'compromise' would be reevaluated for the good of the viewer; you, me and everybody who ever gave a damn about anything worthwhile.

However, a little music and some wine cool my nerves.  I watch an episode of "The Sopranos" and silently hope that one day HBO will come knocking on my door; they don't know what 'compromise' means because, well, they don't do it.