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Gary David Goldberg, the creator,
writer and producer for the
television series "Brooklyn Bridge,"
"Spin City" and the iconic "Family Ties," will release his autobiography, cultural valuesto paying homage
to his grandmother Jenny in "Brooklyn
Bridge," Gary has drawn inspiration
throughout his career from his own
life and the colorful people who
helped shape it.
Gary keeps readers captivated with
some of his Hollywood anecdotes. For
example, while casting "Family Ties,"
Goldberg adamantly opposed Michael
J. Fox for the role of Alex P.
Keaton. Only after the casting
agent’s insistence that Fox
re-audition did Goldberg relentand a star was born. Michael J. Fox
later told Gary that had he not
gotten the part in "Family Ties," he
would have quit show business
completely and gone back to Canada.
Sit, Ubu, Sit is also a love story
about his lifelong love affair with
his wife, Dr. Diana Meehan, a noted
author and feminist, and founder of
the Archer School For Girls in Los
Angeles. Sit, Ubu, Sit shows readers
all that their forty years of
togetherness entails, from
hitchhiking around Europe in the
1970s, to bravely facing Diana’s
life threatening illness in the last
decade. Gary’s humility and warmth
make his story deeply relatable, and
often extremely funny.
Goldberg has made women’s and family
issues a central part of his life
and work, raising two Ivy League-
educated daughters, one of whom went
on to write and produce the hit
television show, "Friends." His
commitment to women’s and family
issues date back to1985, when "Family
Ties" was at its peak in the ratings
and Paramount offered Goldberg a
blank sheet of paper and a promise
to fulfill whatever he wrote down,
to renew his contract. Gary
requested a childcare center on the
lot for working parents who were
Paramount employees. Now virtually
all studios have them.
Sit, Ubu, Sit demonstrates that
Gary’s career life, while dazzling
and dizzying, is never as important
as his relationship with Diana and
their daughters. What shines through
every page of Sit, Ubu, Sit is
Gary’s warmth, good humor and
gratitude for this forty-year (and
counting) partnership with Diana;
for the special friendships he’s
developed in Hollywood and beyond;
for his enduring closeness with his
childhood friends; and, ultimately
for having been able to make a
living doing something he loved so
much.
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