![]() Viewers have been watching Reid grow on television since the late '70s. ![]() "That's what we need to be about," he said, "a place where young people can bring scripts, bring their talent, and we can grow as they grow." Reid noted that the black man who shared the Best-Sound Oscar for "Glory" got his start in a small black production company. To do that you have to guarantee that you're going to be in business, even if it takes two to three years." "Maybe the Hudlin brothers would have come to us with 'House Party' if we had had our shingle out," said Reid. "Not all products will have a black perspective," said Reid, "but they will have a black and female presence behind the camera. One of the goals of the company is to find and cultivate minority and female talent, and he has discussed the female-involvement portion of the goal with the American Film Institute. On the other hand, he's interested in acting in as well as producing small-scale theatrical movies. He would produce the films, but not star in them. "We hope to be a major supplier of made-for-TV and theatrical movies." These films would be in the $3- to $5 million range, would be offered to cable as well as to over-the-air networks, and, of course, would try to capitalize on the ever-expanding video market, said Reid. In addition to that arrangement, Reid and BET founder Robert Johnson have formed a company, said Reid. "Frank's Place" plays on in reruns on the Black Entertainment Television cable channel. I've been on CBS since 1978, consistently, with one exception, so this is a chance to go to another network and see how they do business." "I think I shall walk away from it for a while and not even look at it, and then re-enter later on. "Think of a mystery show, with a comic twist, a black couple you rarely see in dramatic presentations doing light comedy - and that was thrown back too. "Snoops," too, was a series he thought had general appeal. In 'Frank's Place' I gave them something unique, and it was thrown back at me." "I don't know if I can come up with anything that can have mass appeal," he said. Barbara Hale is, of course, Della Street, devoted secretary to Mason, who's been turned into a TV institution by Raymond Burr.Įven as Reid looked forward to the airing of a movie with a strong role for him - in a TV movie based on one of television's most successful series - he marveled at the rejection of his two efforts at series stardom and success. ![]() Law," Kene Holliday ("Matlock"), Nia Peeples, Alice Ghostley and William R. 1 since the killing follows a nasty husband-wife spat witnessed by several onlookers.Īlso starring in the mystery are Alan Rachins from "L.A. Reid, who plays her husband, becomes suspect No. Vanessa Williams plays an ill-tempered singer who is found shot to death. If he drops in on his neighbors tonight, he'll see himself co-starring in a Perry Mason movie, "The Case of the Silenced Singer" (9 on NBC). "I have to go to the neighbors to find out what happened." "I can put it in perspective by saying I have a farm in central Virginia and it doesn't have a television," said Reid. So what do you do when your second shot at TV stardom, in "Snoops," folds practically overnight? Are you bitter, or what? And he may be too.Īfter years of brightening series television as a supporting actor, he made the leap to lead player and executive producer in "Frank's Place," a show that many TV devotees and legions of critics still recall with dewy eyes. If you were Tim Reid, you might be bitter. ![]()
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