Paddy Chayefsky

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q180251: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Star 80 (1983). Count them as writer (3 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Lenny (1974): 1 line

  1. craft (structure) · through Star 80 (1983), which they were tied to as mentor/script reader; film dedicated to him: Lenny ⇒ Star 80 (the host's read). Star 80's interview framing/superstructure echoes Lenny's, and Lenny is the origin of the Chevy-Chase-style voice.
    “This movie, you have the interview, this sort of superstructure that he loves so much”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:32:03 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Sweet Charity (1969): 1 line

  1. unmapped (technique) · through Star 80 (1983), which they were tied to as mentor/script reader; film dedicated to him: Sweet Charity ⇒ Star 80 (the host's read). Fosse's choreographic insert/isolation technique reappears in Star 80, applied to ugly material.
    “There's even the, I mean, the whole fossy isolation of the body parts thing, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:33:58 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Writing (5) everyone in writing

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

people (2)

  1. people (writer): Paddy Chayefsky → The Hospital. The Hospital is called a Chayefsky movie.
    “It's a Shayevsky movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:08:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (unrealized collaboration): Paddy Chayefsky → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick was one of only three people who met to direct Network, but he and Chayefsky never clicked.
    “Kubrick was like one of only 3 people who even met to direct that movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:31:34 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (mentor): Bob Fosse → Paddy Chayefsky. Chayefsky was Fosse's mentor/drinking buddy who told him the script needed no notes, and the film is dedicated to him.
    “Patty Shayvsky says, it's fine.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:24:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (talked out of it): Paddy Chayefsky → Stanley Kubrick. Chayefsky eventually told Kubrick he should not direct Network because they were both control freaks.
    “Cheevsky eventually is like, you shouldn't do it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:03:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Paddy Chayefsky: At Chayefsky's funeral Fosse kept a promise to dance publicly, doing it for about 30 seconds, and E.L. Doctorow called it the most touching moment.
    “Apparently he danced for 30 seconds about it.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:25:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)