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Rashid Newson

Rashid Newson

Television writer, producer, and bestselling author; co-creator of Bel-Air; author of "My Government Means to Kill Me" and "There's Only One Sin in Hollywood."

Jun 30, 2026

9:33
Well, I
9:34
mean, we still have this.
9:37
There are so many different ways to be famous.
9:39
that Lena Horne, in a lot of ways, was, for a Black actress, incredibly famous in the 1940s even.
9:51
But by the time you get to the 1960s, has to be reintroduced to a younger audience.
9:55
And that just keeps happening, that stars have to sort of figure out how to reinvent themselves in a medium in which it hadn't been done before.
10:05
You know, my daughter is 11.

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16:08
the you know the studios the production companies the financiers producers writers do you have you must have some great stories some great anecdotes from your formative years in hollywood i mean what were the what were the moments coming up in this town that sort of formed you um as as a writer or maybe maybe maybe momentarily pushed you away from being a writer
16:32
Oh, I mean, when I started, I was an assistant on the Fox lot.
16:38
And a really cute young man came around with bracelets so that you could watch the taping of AUSA, which was a comedy, I believe, on NBC for one season starring Scott Foley.
16:49
I took the bracelet because I wanted to see the show, but I also wanted to flirt with the young man.
16:55
And I went down there.
16:56
Not Scott Foley, but the young man.
16:57
Yeah, the young man.
19:20
You almost can't write it.

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