Brian Pollack (Cheers, Sledge Hammer!, Hollywood Squares)

<p>Brian Pollack talked to me about his love for<em> The Honeymooners </em>and it&#39;s writer Leonard Stern; getting the job and working with Stern on <em>Sledge Hammer!</em>; writers on the picket line look so young; holding cue cards; working on the <em>Horror Hall of Fame </em>in 1974; writing for <em>The Jim Nabors Show</em> and <em>Hollywood Squares</em> at the same time; George Gobel; Rose Marie and Debbie Reynolds; subbing as Cher&#39;s cue card guy; &quot;surprising&quot; Paul Lynde for a TV show and finding him dead; Paul was hostile and anti-Semitic when drunk; not knowing Alexis&#39; Smith&#39;s career when she did his <em>Cheers</em>; meeting Mert Rich; Phil Kellard gets fired from <em>Hollywood Squares</em>; <em>Jeffersons</em> stole his original pitch and then offered him another episode to write; writing for <em>The Love Boat</em>; favorite episodes of <em>Sledge Hammer!</em>; the cast; firing Jamie Foxx from <em>Roc</em>; getting the job on <em>Cheers</em> with the episode &quot;Please Mr. Postman&quot;; getting a congratulatory phone call from Sam Simon; guest star Admiral William J. Crowe; Rob Long &amp; Dale Staley; favorite episodes; winning the Emmy for &quot;The Days of Wine and Neurosis&quot;; the Dead Emmy Section of the 30 Rock Post Office; seeing gues stars in old movies and not realizing their careers; meeting Hank Aaron at <em>Hollywood Squares</em>; <em>Cheers</em> season 11 was werid; Kirsite Alley asks for them back; their friendship; doing a <em>Cheers </em>sketch for Disney; going to the same psychiatrist as Rodney Dangerfield; being made to re-write Patrick Carlin&#39;s script for <em>The George Carlin Show</em>, drawing the ire of George; having to do a rewrite for a new writer on <em>Sister, Sister</em> and having the writer Xerox &quot;her&quot; great reviews; writing with Bob Iles; Sherman Hemsley; <em>Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer</em>; Charles Dutton rejects a <em>Roc</em> script; <em>Roc</em> goes lives; Charles Dutton wants them back; working with Brian Doyle-Murray;