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Media Room
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Kate Ottenberg,
Sunshine, Sachs & Associates
(212) 691-2800,
ottenberg@sunshinesachs.com
GARY DAVID GOLDBERG,
CREATOR OF HIT TELEVISION SHOWS
FAMILY TIES,
BROOKLYN BRIDGE AND SPIN
CITY PENS
SIT, UBU, SIT: HOW I WENT FROM
BROOKLYN TO HOLLYWOOD WITH THE SAME
WOMAN, THE SAME DOG, AND A LOT LESS
HAIR
NEW YORK, NY
(February 5, 2008) – 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,
Sit Ubu, Sit, an extraordinary
account of an incredibly successful
– and incredibly unexpected – life
in show business.
Sit, Ubu, Sit
elevates the typical Hollywood
memoir by providing an insider’s
view on the industry with a deeply
personal story that has been
integral to Goldberg’s success.
From basing the parents in Family
Ties on himself and his wife -
two former flower children
struggling to raise successful kids
with counter cultural values – to
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 relent –
and 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 40 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.
About Gary David
Goldberg:
Gary David Goldberg
was born in Brooklyn, New York on
June 25, 1944. After a prolonged
and checkered collegiate career,
which began at Brandeis University
in 1962 and ended at San Diego State
in 1975 (with several other schools
in between), he moved to Hollywood
to try to make it as a writer. Mr.
Goldberg has been the recipient of
numerous honors during his career
including two Emmy Awards, two
Golden Globes, two Writer’s Guild
Awards, six Humanitas Prizes, a
Peabody, a Christopher, two Viewers
for Quality Television Awards, the
Producers Guild Award as Producer of
the Year in 1991 and the Writers
Guild of America’s Valentine Davies
Award for his contributions to the
entertainment industry. In 1992 he
was inducted into Broadcasting
Magazine Hall of Fame. He lives in
Vermont with his wife, Dr. Diana
Meehan, and their five dogs.
SIT, UBU, SIT: How I Went from Brooklyn to
Hollywood with the Same Woman, the
Same Dog, and a Lot Less Hair by Gary David Goldberg
On-sale date: February 5, 2008
Harmony Books • ISBN: 978-0-307-39418-7 •
$23.95 • 272 pages
www.garydavidgoldberg.com
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