NBC & Me

NBC & MEMY LIFE AS A PAGE IN A BOOK(A MOCK MEMOIR OF MY BIG '80s DAZE WITH THE PEACOCK NETWORK)From May 1984 to December 1985 actor/author/TV producer/singer Herbie J Pilato worked as a Page for NBC-TV in Burbank California. Many Pages were excited by the frequent showbiz interactions that were accessible and provided by a major TV network facility. Some found work within and outside of the industry. Others found their job only uncovered a depressing even insulting Hollywood experience. For Herbie J it was da bomb as he found himself on the set of Family Ties The Golden Girls and Wheel of Fortune. He helped to coordinate an affiliates' convention two press tours five Bob Hope specials An All-Star Salute To President Dutch Reagan the 1984 Democratic Presidential Debates and the 1984 Emmy Awards. He laughed with established comedians lunched with network suits hob-knobbed with celebrities stuffed envelopes - and passed out tickets to Scrabble - all for a measly $5.20 an hour.It's an experience that he remembers in-depth - and with tongue-in-cheek - in NBC & ME: MY LIFE AS A PAGE IN A BOOK - A MOCK MEMOIR OF MY BIG '80s DAZE WITH THE PEACOCK NETWORK. With NBC & ME Herbie J (no period after the J - and it's all explained in the book) exposes for the first time the behind-the-scenes shenanigans of his initial TV network tenure. Within these pages (every possible pun intended) Herbie J takes you - the reader - behind closed-doors down inactive hallways and inside TV's oldest web of intrigue (that's what they used to call television networks in the old days - webs).NBC & ME offers the fast-track inside-scoop close-up-look and behind-the-scenes peek at my wanna'-be life with the so-called Peacock network - and in the process becomes the first book to chronicle infamous Page department of NBC (or any other network's Page division for that matter). In doing so NBC & ME rides the skirt-tails of past or recent hit television shows like A&E's Airline (which was really Pages on a Plane) Andy Dick's The Assistant and of course Donald Trump's and NBC's very own hit reality show The Apprentice - as well as the success of NBC's newly-christened Emmy-winning hit comedy 30 Rock (which features the Peacock net's former Saturday Night Live star/writer Tina Fey and offers periodic appearances by a character who just so happens to be a Page).So if you're looking for a fun read NBC & ME: MY LIFE AS A PAGE IN A BOOK fits the bill as none other than a real...uhm...page-turner.