I drove the Jaguar down Benedict Canyon for an eight a.m. breakfast meeting with Marty Ransohoff, one of Hollywood\u2019s most successful producers, whose credits ranged from The Beverly Hillbillies to Catch-22. Marty knew the industry class system and offered attendees a sliding menu: bagels and cream cheese for sitcom writers; screenwriters were given smoked salmon with their bagels; studio executives, major stars, and directors were served eggs Benedict.<\/p>\n
Marty had a reputation as a tough guy. He supposedly once said, \u201cIf I can find a way not to screw you on this I won\u2019t, but if I can\u2019t, God bless.\u201d But when we met he was polite, and I got a bagel with cream cheese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I drove the Jaguar down Benedict Canyon for an eight a.m. breakfast meeting with Marty Ransohoff, one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[163638,99824,163639,163640,163641,86279,163642,163643,30771,163644,163645,49,48,163646,39216,89993,163647,163648,163649,163650,13423,163651,511,163652,163653,163654,163655,26072,163656,637,9713,163657,4996,64335,163658,28658,163659,163660,163661,163662,1522,163663,163664,163665,163666,163667,41580,163668,163669,163670,17759,163671,163672,14198,163673,163674,10053,163675,163676,163677,82,27667,163678,37307,163679,163680,163681,593,163682,163683,118614,93771,6522,4530,163684,20898,4432,132158,163685],"class_list":["post-384794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-abbie-hoffman","tag-algeria","tag-angela-davis","tag-babolat","tag-barry-freed","tag-bel-air","tag-benders-la","tag-benedict-canyon","tag-beverly-hills","tag-borrego-badlands","tag-brandeis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carl-gottlieb","tag-carmel","tag-caroline","tag-catch-22","tag-chicago-seven","tag-colonus","tag-contras","tag-cuba","tag-dennis-roberts","tag-dodgers","tag-dottie","tag-dr-grotstein","tag-ed-ruscha","tag-eve-babitz","tag-fbi","tag-fountain","tag-france","tag-hollywood","tag-holmby-hills","tag-italy","tag-jaguar","tag-jaguar-xj6","tag-jerry","tag-johanna-lawrenson","tag-john-gardiner","tag-john-gardiners-tennis-ranch","tag-lenore-zola","tag-los-angeles","tag-marty-ransohoff","tag-mercedes-380sl","tag-mia-madre-lauto","tag-michael-eisner","tag-michael-elias","tag-mick-jagger","tag-mike-ovitz","tag-moleskine","tag-monsanto","tag-new-york-stock-exchange","tag-nikes","tag-oedipus","tag-palm-springs","tag-paul-ruscha","tag-rancho-park","tag-rolling-stone","tag-santa-monica-boulevard","tag-scythian-glade","tag-seneca","tag-sports","tag-steve-martin","tag-sticking-place-books","tag-sunset-boulevard","tag-sweetzer","tag-sylvia-plath","tag-temple-mount","tag-tennis","tag-the-beverly-hillbillies","tag-the-jerk","tag-theo","tag-time-magazine","tag-ucla","tag-universal","tag-vernazza","tag-vietnam-war","tag-warner-bros","tag-warren-beatty","tag-you-can-go-home-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}