A Stranger in the Mirror
“He said to the father, "If you ever mention this to anyone, you're out on your ass." Work was the only thing that made Toby forget his loneliness, the only thing that brought him real joy. If a show went well, Toby was the most amusing companion in the world, but if the show went badly, he was a demon, attacking every target within reach of his savage wit. He was possessive. Once, during a story conference, he took Rainger's head between his two hands and announced to the room, "This is mine. I...t belongs to me." At the same time he grew to hate writers, because he needed them and he did not want to need anyone. So he treated them with contempt. On pay day, Toby made airplanes of the writer's paychecks and sailed them through the air. Writers would be fired for the smallest infraction. One day a writer walked in with a tan and Toby immediately had him discharged. "Why did you do that?" O'Hanlon asked. "He's one of our best writers." "If he was working," Toby said, "he wouldn't have had rime for a tan." A new writer brought in a joke about mothers and was let go.MoreLess
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