Sunday, September 11, 2011

"He was coming back to LA from Boston."

At Ricochet, recollections of 9/11. From one by Rob Long:

On the west coast, we're always three hours behind the big events back east. So that morning, we all went to work. I was sitting in a laundromat which we had rented out for the day, waiting to set up a shot, when it became obvious that we weren't going to get any work done that day, or the next, either. Every video monitor on the set was tuned to the news. Every face was grim.

And then we heard that David Angell, a genius of a writer -- he has been an executive producer of "Cheers" in the years before my arrival there; had created "Wings" and "Frasier" afterward; had devoted the rest of his life and a considerable part of his considerable fortune to philanthropy, both from his own foundation and through certain Catholic charities that he loved -- was on the plane that hit the second tower. He was coming back to LA from Boston.

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