#william rabkin

[speedygal]

I remembered there was a passage that described Lassie to a tea in a Psych book and I didn't remember which one until stumbling upon the page itself last night.

Favorite description of him by far.

Passage from page 38.

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read Psych: A Fatal Frame of Mind by William Rabkin (2010)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onNov 2, 2024

[speedygal]

anyway my favorite scenes from Psych: A mind Is A Terrible Thing To Read.✨Special regards to the scene below. ✨

Something so memorable that after I realized I could share them via camera after emailing the picture to myself. After having said books for a decade. or more. 👍

Also credit due to a villain realizing he's giving a villain monologue and realizing he's wasting time. in the middle.

i haven't reread them in years but i have started rereading the call of the mild first, had to look into my two other psych usa books hunting down the scene so I could take a picture of it and share.

[speedygal]

The call of the mild, William rabkin, one of the funniest passages that I encounter re-reading the thing

[hellyeahshewolfoflondon]

(The following excerpt is from Carl Levinger’s interviews in She-wolf Chronicles)

WR: In terms of the worst of the final product, for me, it’s a toss-up between “She-Devil” and “Beyond the Beyond,” which was just butchered, partially I guess because Brian Grant—

LG: --never saw “Star Trek.”

WR: Never saw “Star Trek.” We had been saving up this really cool “Star Trek” parody for years, with Mr. Snork and all that, and we got back footage that looked like “Captain Satellite” or “Doctor Who.” “Don’t these guys know exactly what we’re doing?” And apparently they didn’t. They just missed…there was too much weirdness.

LG: Too broad.

WR: Too broad. The script was not all necessarily broad; it was fairly broad, actually. So you want to play it straight. That was what was nice about the first half dozen episodes that we did. They were playing it straight; the scripts were broad, and that gives you the fun “Avengers” feel. So “Beyond the Beyond” was unfortunately over the top, and it really killed the humor, because then it just becomes weird. Although Lee has a novel.

LG: My novel will be out in February. It’s called “Beyond the Beyond,” with Mr. Snork and all that.

WR: St. Martin’s press. Hardcover. (--now in print and very funny indeed – SBS)

[hellyeahshewolfoflondon]

(The following excerpt is from Carl Levinger’s interviews in She-wolf Chronicles)

WR: We’re very passionate about this. It’s the only time we’ve been let loose on a show. I honestly remember our third script, “Little Bookshop of Horrors,” with a second act break where our heroine turns herself into Anna Karenina and throwing herself under a train, later re-written to be a bus, and Ian morphing through various characters from literature in the end. We just sent it in and waited for the bombs to fall. When Universal liked it, I had this flash and said, “My God, we can get away with anything at this point. We have to be self-censoring,” because it’s always the executive producer who says, “No, you can’t do that.” That lasted for about half a script, and I thought, “You know, there’s no one telling us what to do. We can do whatever the hell we want to!” And we die. LG: We still use “Little Bookshop of Horrors” as an audition scsript, just to show people how bizarre we can get. “She-Wolf of London” is still our favorite work. I could have written that show for five years.

[lk4986]

"[It's] not Monty Python funny, but maybe Brady Bunch funny. You know, no big laughs, but a wry smile, a warm chuckle, and that nod of recognition that we're all riders in the same cockeyed caravan of life."

Shawn Spencer, A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Read, by William Rabkin

[lk4986]

Gus: This isn't about pickles.

Shawn: You'd be surprised how much turns out to be, in the end, about pickles.