When Barry Poznick worked as an assistant on Sally Jessy Raphael's show 20 years ago, he was told he had what it takes to be on TV. But he felt more comfortable behind the scenes until he met Oprah, who gave him his own show, "Are You Normal, America?"
"I was Amy Rosenblum's production assistant at the Sally show," Poznick tells me. "She knew how to make TV like nobody's business. I learned so much from her, and she kept saying, 'You should be on TV,' and I was like, 'No, I like being behind the scenes.'
"Cut to 20-something years later. There's this woman named Oprah and we did the run-through of this game show, and whenever we sell a game show, we push the conference room table out of the way and we act it out. So we did that for Oprah. Oprah was like,...
"I was Amy Rosenblum's production assistant at the Sally show," Poznick tells me. "She knew how to make TV like nobody's business. I learned so much from her, and she kept saying, 'You should be on TV,' and I was like, 'No, I like being behind the scenes.'
"Cut to 20-something years later. There's this woman named Oprah and we did the run-through of this game show, and whenever we sell a game show, we push the conference room table out of the way and we act it out. So we did that for Oprah. Oprah was like,...
- 6/6/2012
- by Naughty But Nice Rob
- Huffington Post
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