tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post4866439028010693016..comments2023-11-03T06:02:02.128-07:00Comments on By Ken Levine: Writing our first script... at Fort Ord.By Ken Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305293821975250420noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-45732392179303566172011-07-10T20:29:59.898-07:002011-07-10T20:29:59.898-07:00I'd really like to know where the Carmel Airpo...I'd really like to know where the Carmel Airport that Hollywoodaholic refers to is.<br />I don't think there is a Carmel Airport.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-58211544604159576462011-02-09T11:41:50.685-08:002011-02-09T11:41:50.685-08:00I was lucky enough to be the Commanding Officer of...I was lucky enough to be the Commanding Officer of the 222nd Public Information Detachment, and they were collectively the most creative bunch of guys that could be assembled in one place. Among the group were Jack Popejoy (radio news) Bow Rawitch (LA Times) Pat Kelly (KHJ Radio) as well as Ken Levine, aka radio DJ Beaver Cleaver, and David Issacs (background unknown but a very funny guy) Jack Popejoy was the bright one who had an opinion about everything, from why he didn't spitshine his shoes to why inhaling Brasso was bad for your health. Bob was the squeeky voiced newspaper journalist, and Pat, Ken & David were the funny, off the wall guys. As a collaboration they all helped write and perform live a stage show as to why Army Reserve members should re-enlist. Most of the members in the performed in the production.....standing ovations. Ken, I see you have not lost your talent for putting real life emotions on paper. Wonderful piece on Popejoy. He would be proud.Old Army guynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-70498354514411176812011-02-07T18:50:19.688-08:002011-02-07T18:50:19.688-08:00And it's still Turner 85, Mitchell 23....And it's still Turner 85, Mitchell 23....Paul Ducanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-81284540035636966502011-02-07T12:55:30.980-08:002011-02-07T12:55:30.980-08:00Ken,
This was a great entry. I really enjoyed lea...Ken,<br /><br />This was a great entry. I really enjoyed learning about how you got your start.<br /><br />I'm guessing a lot has changed:)Aaliyahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04592146576233426623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-61245837414988966032011-02-07T10:34:03.352-08:002011-02-07T10:34:03.352-08:00Ken, don't you have a book coming out? Maybe i...Ken, don't you have a book coming out? Maybe it's an ebook. Any chance you can turn that into an audiobook? Your stories are great, and would be made greater by your telling them for something at Audible.Max Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07706524941272103444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-77549111513363507342011-02-07T09:08:56.673-08:002011-02-07T09:08:56.673-08:00"It’s one thing to get a break, but it’s anot..."It’s one thing to get a break, but it’s another to take advantage of it."<br /><br />This may be the most profound single sentence you have ever written.<br /><br />As you were.joehttp://basiccivilization.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-12109014748362815102011-02-07T08:25:55.160-08:002011-02-07T08:25:55.160-08:00Boy, you reserve guys had it rough. I was lucky en...Boy, you reserve guys had it rough. I was lucky enough to go to Nam and avoid those problems. Add a smile here, Ken.Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-8465807540580648462011-02-07T08:19:31.318-08:002011-02-07T08:19:31.318-08:00I went to Ford Ord on assignment with a co-screenw...I went to Ford Ord on assignment with a co-screenwriter for a feature for National Lampoon (the Army thought we were working for ABC Circle Films) back in 1979. <br /><br />We interviewed generals by day, and got drunk with the non-coms at night ("Did you know the infantry are fondly referred to as 'target developers' by the brass?")<br /><br />We got to fire M-16s, run the obstacle course at our own leisure, and were delivered to our return plane at the Carmel airport tarmac by Huey helicopter. Paul Anka and Doug McClure were in the first class cabin watching this spectacle and looked at us arrive in our Hawaiian shirts like, "Who ARE these guys?"<br /><br />We were playing out our war fantasies in an atmosphere free of the draft (though I had a number the last year). <br /><br />But we were also trying to live up to characters we saw on "M*A*S*H."Hollywoodaholichttp://www.hollywoodaholic.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-88349797329265494792011-02-07T08:02:19.088-08:002011-02-07T08:02:19.088-08:00Sounds like it would have made a great story for o...Sounds like it would have made a great story for one of those "Rob Petrie in the army" episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show, if only you had been around 10-12 years earlier (or the show had lasted 10-12 years longer).<br /><br />I've read some stories of how Lloyd Turner and his writing partner, Bill Scott, were screwed around with while working for Warner Bros. cartoons in the 1940s (to the point that they eventually had to write separate scripts and the one with the weakest script would get fired), so I guess that's part of the battle to break into the business.Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-21760083874218985562011-02-07T07:41:51.992-08:002011-02-07T07:41:51.992-08:00I was stationed at Fort Ord from 83 to 86. I was a...I was stationed at Fort Ord from 83 to 86. I was a military broadcaster (MOS 71-R).<br /><br />Of course being stateside, we couldn't have a broadcast radio station on post, so we cable cast our station through the dining facilities on post, and our audio was cable cast thorough a channel on the posts cable TV operation. <br /><br />The only time we were on Broadcast radio is when we produced our public affairs show that ran at 5am Sunday mornings. <br /><br />Our office was in one of those old yellow buildings on what we called CDEC hill, near Stillwell hall.<br /><br />One of our other duties was to do the announcing at the monthly retirement ceremonies. Fun stuff!<br /><br />So where was I?? Oh yeah..Fort Ord. Nice assignment!Tom Berghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06048930975442716841noreply@blogger.com