so no one told you life was gonna be this way
your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A
it's like you're always stuck in second gear
You might have heard of the sexual harassment suit filed by a woman who worked as an assistant to the writing staff on the TV show Friends.
The case arose after a former writers' assistant on the show, Amaani Lyle, accused the creative team of sexual harassment, though none of the remarks she complains about had been directed at her.Among the frequent discussions about sex that had formed part of the creative process for the show, she claimed the team talked about how one of the writers had missed an opportunity to sleep with Jennifer Aniston, who played Rachel, and had spoken pejoratively of part of Courteney Cox Arquette's (Monica) anatomy.
The writers admit they discussed their own sex lives and their fantasies about actors in the show, but argue she has no case for 'passive' sexual harassment.
I think I've watched one episode of Friends from start to finish, and it was competently done, but nothing that I cared to watch again. I do remember that the plot revolved around sex or something. There was some subplot involving . . . sex, I think. There were a lot of double entendres, and even more single entendres.
Call it a hunch, but I'll bet that the topic of . . . sex got batted around in the writers' bullpen from time to time.
Lyle admits she was warned conversations would be more explicit than in her previous job, working as a writers' assistant on the children's channel Nickelodeon. She was fired in 1999 for typing too slowly and went on to file a sexual harassment suit against the makers of the show, Warner Bros Television Productions Inc.
Hm-hmm. Anyone notice something of a pattern here?
Lyle, 31, is now in Germany with the US air force.
Consider this a heads-up, flyboys.