Why Bob Dylan left his idea Sitkam HBO immediately after she was Greenlit

Remembering the genesis of the Bob Dylan, Larry Charles explained how he met the rocker in the smoke in the back of the Santa Monica Monica. After his assistant offered them coffee, and Charles chose an ice drink, Dylan said he wanted a “hot drink,” and Charles explained: “So they bring hot coffee for him like cappuccino, and they bring me ice coffee, and they collected them in the middle of the table, and I was immediately grabbed. When Dylan asked why the writer did not drink his drink, he replied “You drink my drink”, which obviously pushed the laughter between them and “broke the ice”.

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This would seem to be convinced by Dylan that Charles (who talked with /film in 2023 about his project “Diks: Musical”) was a man who pastors his comedy series, and the couple worked together to create “a very difficult treatment for this comedy, which was filled with surrealism and all things from his songs.” This was partly based on the range of paper scraps with the phrases written on their phrases for several years. “We would take trimming paper,” Charles recalled, “having collected them, try making them meaning, try to find the story points in it.”

The resulting treatment received a duo meeting with HBO, which Charles reminded that he visited the pajamas (he claimed that he was probably “with a nervous breakdown”), and Dylan arrived in a “black cowboy hat, black floor length, (and) black boots.” As if it were not a bad start, then the then president of HBO Chris Albrecht started, showing Dylan his tickets to the original Woodstock, to which Dylan reacted, saying: “I did not play in Woodstock.” According to Charles, the musician continued to look out the office window during the meeting.

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Surprisingly, Albrecht agreed to buy his show for Dylan only to blow up everything immediately. “We go out to the elevator,” said Charles, ” – Bob Jeff, my manager Gavin, I and Bob – we are thrilled, we actually sold the project, and Bob says,” I don’t want to do it anymore. It’s too syringe “.” Despite the fact that the couple would continue to make a “masking and anonymous” comedy series inspired by Jerry Lewis, never appeared, and now it just exists as a difficult part of the expansive Dylan Apocrypha.