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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I know Carole and Isabella put the brakes on for you a bit because you tend to go full throttle and things, at least earlier in your life you did.
Rick Rosner: Yeah. Lazier, but yeah.
Jacobsen: You’ve had that phrase, lazy has replaced crazy and by crazy I translate that as a hyper drive in certain directions. Who do you think put the brakes on more, Isabella or your wife?
Rosner: Well, my wife. My kid has lived away from home for many years now but often my wife, her anxiety about what I might do to embarrass the family, isn’t just on her behalf but is for my daughter by proxy. She worries that something I put on Twitter or some other place where I’m not allowed like Instagram might embarrass my kid. And so yeah my wife has put on the brakes more. LA, like I’ve said before has a number of diluted, aspiring entertainment couples that that tell each other they’re brilliant, beautiful, and talented and kind of rev each other up. And Carol tends to see the pitfalls of things and is not super much a cheerleader. I mean she believes that I’m talented but she also believes that a lot of my efforts are doomed to failure which can take the wind out of my sails but any wind that she takes out of my sails is my fault because I need to be strong enough to withstand the reasonable objections of my partner.
It’d be great to have somebody who’s shared my delusions about what I might accomplish but that’s no excuse for not more aggressively pursuing my delusions. Often they’re not delusions. I’ve done some wacky shit like right now I’ve got big chunks of a manuscript of a novel that is extremely pertinent to what’s happening in the world and I believe the writing is decent and the whole thing I think is highly publishable and I think it’ll be successful once published. And Carol will say things to me like “You know that publishing is just a disaster now that the money’s been emptied out of it by the future we’ve moved into,” and that it’s super hard to get a book published unless you’re a celebrity. And in my view that’s just not super pertinent because the book is good enough and outrageous enough that it can overcome that. You remember Kevin, the documentarian guy?
Jacobsen: Yeah.
Rosner: Well I mean that thing was sold and then it fell apart and now it’s out being sold again. Even though she knows that entertainment industry projects often take many years to come to fruition, she remains unconvinced that this thing will be a thing even though he’s coming out again in a couple weeks to do more filming. So, regardless of how skeptical Carol might be, it’s part of my job to move forward. Our kid has pursued her interests quite successfully and I’ve been very successful in not necessarily pursuing my direct interest but in doing things that I thought were fun which led to a career writing for TV. So, it’s not delusion.
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Rick Rosner
American Television Writer
Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Founder, In-Sight Publishing
In-Sight Publishing
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