Emmy-winning producer Barney Rosenzweig was the featured author at the Friends of the USC Libraries' fall Literary Luncheon on October 16. He discussed Cagney & Lacey ...and Me: An Inside Hollywood Story; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blonde.
WATCH 1) Behind the scenes in Rosenzweig's negotiations with Sony for the DVD release of Cagney & Lacey
WATCH 2) Rosenzweig tries to explain the TV business to his grandmother
WATCH 3) How violating the "show don't tell" rule became a signature device of Cagney & Lacey
WATCH 4) Finding the Cagney & Lacey set on the real-life Lacy Street in downtown Los Angeles
WATCH 5) Delicate artistic and political choices while addressing abortion rights issues in the 1980s