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“WKRP [showed] something happening between people-there was something underneath about people trying to help each other out.”

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Howard Hesseman

Howard Hesseman is an American actor born on February 27, 1940. He is best known for his role in the TV show 'The Office', and has appeared in numerous film and television projects. more

“Every time I meet people working in radio, I'm a little embarrassed. It's all pre-programmed, rigidly formatted stuff. Time and time again, when I talk to jocks, they say how jealous they are of the freedom we have on WKRP. I sometimes have to explain to them that it's not a real radio station.”

People Littles Real Sometimes Stuff Radio Stations Jealous Embarrassed Radio Stations Jocks

Author:Howard Hesseman

“What helped me get the part was that I turned it down. When I read the script, Venus was just a black guy who came in wearing a big coat and a hat and making jive talk. I'd been up for so many of those! I'd had enough of caricatures, what white writers conceive blacks to be. I told the producer I wasn't interested in doing anything like that for three or four years. He said that it was just a pilot, that Venus would be given a human dimension and would be quiet off-the-air. I wanted that input. I thought that side was as important as the comic side. For 'WKRP,' too much of either would be bad.”

“... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonabledesire and claims to give life a form it does not have.”

Men World Giving Humans Mean Doe Ideas Different Facts Form Crime Claims Endeavor Unified

Book:The Rebel

Source: The Rebel

“...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.”

Mind Play

Author:Albert Camus

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