But obsession does not a show make. I was more than aware that I wasn\u2019t at a place in my career where a network or streaming service would likely entrust me with a story of that magnitude and lore \u2014 until a few months later, when it was announced in Deadline that Ryan Murphy was launching a new anthology series, \u201cAmerican Love Story.\u201d The first season: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy.<\/p>\n
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Paul Anthony Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon in \u201cLove Story.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Fortunately for me, the heads of Color Force, Brad Simpson and Nina Jacobson \u2014 the producers behind acclaimed series such as \u201cThe People v. O.J. Simpson\u201d<\/a> and \u201cSay Nothing\u201d<\/a> \u2014 read a sample of mine and agreed to meet with me. After our extensive discussion about my interest in the show, they suggested I meet with Ryan to walk him through my take on the story. While this might seem like the logical next step in the hiring process for a Ryan Murphy show, the suggestion felt anything but. Ryan Murphy was a name that entered my psyche circa 1999, at the age of 11, when I would sneak out of my room to watch Ryan\u2019s first series, \u201cPopular\u201d: a clever, biting, provocative show that, like so many of his later works, upended the status quo of the genre and showcased characters \u2014 and talented, overlooked actors \u2014 found nowhere else on TV.<\/p>\n I spent roughly three months in the trenches with Brad and Nina, deepening and refining my presentation \u2014 one that I\u2019d recite in the shower, on runs, at Trader Joe\u2019s, while I drove. It was a crash course in storytelling, producing, and understanding the alchemy that propelled so many of Ryan\u2019s shows into the zeitgeist.<\/p>\n Most mega-producers likely would have balked at my less-than-robust r\u00e9sum\u00e9, but Ryan is someone who moves instinctively and decisively, and after our meeting, he offered me the chance to write the show. In the spirit of full transparency, I immediately experienced almost debilitating impostor syndrome, but after several frantic phone calls to my agents, manager and therapist, I accepted.<\/p>\n Connor Hines.<\/p>\n (Evan Mulling \/ For The Times)<\/p>\n I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve ever obsessed over anything the way I did the world of \u201cLove Story.\u201d I knew it was a tremendous responsibility, and a story that had to be handled with care, but I was also exhilarated by the privilege of writing about a subject that not only I loved deeply, but one that my grandparents had loved deeply as well. Sadly, they passed away before this all came to fruition, but I can only imagine how happy \u2014 and, knowing my grandfather, how responsible \u2014 they would feel seeing my dreams materialize in such a fortuitous way.<\/p>\n Unlike many Hollywood experiences, working on \u201cLove Story\u201d turned out to be everything I had hoped for and more, and despite nearly a decade of watching projects wither on the development vine, it felt exactly like where I was supposed to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Growing up, my grandparents virtually had a shrine to President Kennedy and Jackie. For many descendants of Irish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[31646,146908,146910,1431,10497,1508,96287,48,52,51,146911,47,50,49,88074,146909,592,131452,1860,3044,8843],"class_list":["post-361238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-american-dream","tag-brad-simpson","tag-carolyn-bessette-kennedy","tag-family","tag-few-month","tag-generation","tag-john-f-kennedy-jr","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lore","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-love-story","tag-nina-jacobson","tag-people","tag-ryan-murphy","tag-show","tag-story","tag-way"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Connor](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781519829_234_.jpeg\")
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