[Ellin was looking for a rapper who had not yet made it, but had the talent to do so.] As we were writing that script, we thought it was going to be a nightmare if we didn't find anyone, ... We loved his charisma and personality. |
[That would be fine with Ellin, as well. Saigon is slated to appear on the current season's last two episodes and return next season.] We'd love to be a breeding ground for new music, ... I'm hoping that Saigon becomes a big star in the next four months. If he wants to come back, we're definitely going to bring him back. |
Andrew Abatemarco, who's now in the display business (and is the model for Vince) or Ricky Zimmerman, who's Johnny Drama, and is a banker, and then there's Paul Schneider, who's got a little bit of Turtle in him [and] he's a lawyer. |
I can tell something clicked because people are constantly e-mailing and calling and saying they want to do the show, ... But it wasn't like we consciously went out and said, 'This is gonna be our big year.' |
I had more agents tell me that was the most frighteningly realistic episode they'd seen, |
I had no kids when I started writing and two when they green-lit the pilot. |
Most of the world knows him as the dad on Full House , but I know him as this funny, sick comedian. He and Andrew Dice Clay were the two dirty, hilarious comedians when I was growing up. |
The show has always been about the shallow moment-by-moment existence of life in the business. But we keep discovering subtleties, like, in Hollywood, even a guy who makes $5 million is constantly insecure and struggling. |
We'd love to be a breeding ground for new music. I'm hoping that Saigon becomes a big star in the next four months. If he wants to come back, we're definitely going to bring him back. |