Whats the advantage of the round beach towel?
Well when the sun moves across the sky, rather than move your towel you just move your body. It’s called “Sunspot.” It still exists, actually, but never really got going as far as sales. In any case, after a couple of years of sales, I started writing on my own. Just got the bug, I guess. I wasn’t much of a writer at all…hadn’t written anything. I went back to grad school for creative writing, and while there, me and a friend of mine, Bennett Yellin, whipped off a screenplay which we ended up selling. And for about two years, every time we wrote a screenplay I’d send it off to my brother because I trusted his instincts with comedy, and story. He was good at it. So we’d send it to him, and he’d say “This is good, this is bad.” Finally after a couple of years of this I felt like we were taking advantage of him, because he was doing a lot of the work but he wasn’t getting any credit, so we ended up writing a screenplay with him, and it was our best one. He just wrote with us from then o
