Tuesday, November 30, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
Page 3
Steve Carter:
By Vicki Ruhga
Steve Carter, a UNL journalism graduate student, got
a taste of TV directing, earlier this month when he spent
two weeks in California courtesy of Gary Marshall,
producer of TV shows "Happy Days," "Joanie Loves
Chachie" and "Laverne and Shirley."
Carter, even apprentice directed two episodes of
"Joanie Loves Chachie" while he was there.
"I spent most of my time on the "Joanie Loves
Student in Focus
Chachie" set because director John Tracy and the cast
were willing to let me ask questions," he said. "It cost
them money for me to take the director's time, because
each episode of the show costs $450,005."
Carter said he also visited the sets of "The Fall Guy,"
"Trapper John, M.D.," "The Love Boat" and "Hart to
Hart."
"I got no credit or money for it, it was just an experience-type
thing," he said. "I was never able to apprentice
direct unless the director suggested it. A couple of direc
tors even made me stay off the floor while they were
shooting."
While in California, Carter also pitched a situation
comedy he created tentatively called "Things are Looking
Up."
Bobbie Dorsch, a member of the writing staff of
"Love, Sidney," and Jerry Maren, who performed in the
Wizard of Oz, are interested in the script and will try to
sell it to Anson Williams Productions, Carter said.
If Williams, who played Potsie Weber on Happy Days,
likes the script, Carter said the script will be pitched to
a network and possibly made into a pilot or series.
Carter describes himself as a non-traditional student.
"I work full time and I go to school full time," Carter
said. "I dropped out of school for four years before
coming back to study broadcasting."
Carter, who works in the Dean's Office of Love
Library, also has an undergraduate degree in political
science.
"After graduation, I was still interested in television,
so I went to talk to the broadcasting department," he
said. "My graduate studies were specially designed by my
advisers, Larry Walklin and Peter Mayeux (UNL broad
casting professors)."
After less than two years in the broadcasting under
graduate program, Carter has finished the course re
quirements and is working on his professional project and
thesis.
Q Police Report
The following calls and complaints were received by
UNL police from 7 a.m. Sunday to- 7 a.m. Monday.
1:16 p.m. - Person reported tampering with the emer
gency phone at 14th and W streets.
8:13 p.m. - Trespasser reported on the 12th floor of
Pound Hall.
9:05 p.m. - Person observed on campus with an item
from the downtown Valentino's Pizza; situation handled
without arrest.
10:10 p.m. - Purse reported stolen from the 13th
floor of Abel Hall.
6:52 a.m. - Speakers reported stolen from Hamilton
Hall.
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Steve Carter
Carter said he was also on the set of "MASH"
last January for a week.
He said he wrote a letter to the executive producer
of the show, and about nine months later, he received
permission to come to California and visit the set.
"Gary Marshall's secretary called me about two months
after I had written him a letter," he said. "Actually, it
only took two weeks for him to answer me, because six
to eight of the weeks were the off-season (and Marshall
was not in his office)."
Carter said he did not send a resume with his letters.
He simply told the producers he was a UNL student and
what his interests in television were.
Writer visits California sets,
hopes to become a director
He said it took longer for permission to visit the
"MASH" set because students attending the Univers
ity of Southern California and University of California
at Los Angeles have first priority.
However, Carter does not think that the UNL broad
casting program is inferior to those at the California
schools.
"At UNL, we have to do both a thesis and a final
project, but at USC or UCLA, students have to do one or
the other," he said. "It was also an advantage for me not
to have to specialize in an area like news or sports. I'm
interested in directing and producing, and I was able to
get an overall picture of television."
Carter said he is interested in television for a variety
of reasons.
"It's fascinating to make someone's thought entertain
ment for everybody," he said. "It's also the magic of
television. It's a lot of fun to take a concept and work
with it all the way through."
Another break for Carter came from a script he sub
mitted to Anthony Alda and Robert Alda when they were
in Lincoln to perform in "The Front Page" at the Lincoln
Community Playhouse.
"I was acquainted with the Aldas from the
"MASH" set. and I talked with him when they were
here," Carter said. "1 submitted the script to Anthony
Alda then, but he was not too excited about it at first."
Carter said the following day, Robert Alda called him
and said he was interested in the script. He also offered
to have his son Alan Alda write in comments and sugges
tions for it.
The script, "Easy Sam," is based on a play by UNL
theatre arts Professor Joseph Baldwin, Carter said. He said
he hopes the script can be use d for a 90-minute movie of
the week.
Carter said television is difficult to get into because
there is no pattern for getting in to the business.
"You have to keep beating doors down and have a
unique approach to people will recognize you," he said.
"It's important to meet people and get contacts along the
way. What you do with what you know is also
important."
In the future, Carter said, he hopes to get into pro
duction and directing.
Union catering, bakery show profits
Food services in the Nebraska Union are showing a
profit except for the Union Square, which is breaking
even, and the Harvest Room, which is showing a loss,
said Ron Pushcar; director of food services in the Ne
braska Union.
Catering has been showing a profit and so has the
bakery, but the bakery has always been profitable, Push
car said.
Exactly how much profit food services are making in
the Nebraska Union hasn't been determined because of
incomplete reports, he said.
Because of cuts in federal aid, students' spendable
income has decreased and they don't spend as much
for lunch, Pushcar said. Students are spending less, caus
ing the losses in the Harvest Room, he said. But some of
the Harvest Room's losses are also a result of the effect
that the Union Square has had on food service.
It was expected that some of the Harvest Room's
business would move out when the Union Square opened,
Pushcar said. Students are aware of and prefer the style
of service at Union Square, which has become a "viable
fast-food operation," he said.
"Union Square has carved out a piece of business that
the building (Nebraska Union) needed," Pushcar said.
The Colonial Dining Room has "cut its losses in half
because of the soup and salad bar, he said. A new
approach was needed, and creating a soup and salad bar
has allowed a reduction in employees, helping to mini
mize losses, he said.
Pushcar said having a soup and salad bar in the Colonial
Dining Room has allowed about eight employee-hours to
be cut a day, which is about two part-time people.
Eating habits have changed since the 1940s and 1950s
when large meals were eaten at noon, Pushcar said. To
day, people aren't eating standard meat and potato
lunches and are eating more salads, soup and sandwiches
and fewer desserts, he said.
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