Then, to top it all off with a cherry, when "Smokey Joe" was revived in 2018, the two white co-creators somehow managed to leave off the name of the black co-creator Otis Sallid.
A pattern emerges, which happened to me. Jack had no problem being a friend and dealing with me in any way, but when I had a human rights issue involving Encores' videographer, a day later, suddenly I was making it up and he couldn't deal with me after 22 years of doing so with no problem! _ suddenly, a 40-second phone conversation with his wife Linda he lied left Linda feeling "harassed and threatened" and needed a police threat written to Skip. and he recommended to Skip that I get immediate treatment for paranoia, against my will, (he's a "show doctor" after all - since I was picking on their poor cyberstalklng videographer. He keeps saying he can't talk to me though he had no trouble for 22 years, and won't talk to my attorney either. And his lawyer retaliates viciously every time a human rights matter is filed.
The worst and most evil was that somehow they planted in a narrative by Julie Miller (best known for coining "My dead aunt thanks you") a scary act of dangerous physical violence that my brother actually did when my nephew as a teen mad hum angry (picking up a chair from the dining table and in anger throwing it quite a distance) and incredibly having Julie Miller (then co-writing Viva Max with me) claiming in an April 2018 legalese narrative this was something I did over a script disagreement back in summer 2011 - having her cause so much fraudulent havoc, and out of nowhere claim fear of me in April 2018 just after the project had a very successful reading and was starting to gain traction.
But this made no sense, as it meant our other female collaborator in 2011 Amanda Yesnowirz would have had to sit there and yawn and say "ho hum" while this supposedly would have been happening, and for years and years after that, Julie never had any problem trying in many emails to initiate meetings with just me and her, traveling with no one else we knew.
And let's not discuss in too much disgusting detail the way Jack picked on that female critic when she dared not to give Rocco's book adaptation of "Big River" in 2017 a move-the-show review because Rocco had screwed pop the balance of the character Jim, and Jack accused her of dissing Mark Twain for not liking not the musical, but Rocco;s adaptation if the musical and tried ti get her fired from the Times. When that failed, they picked on that same female critic again over a review of a "Smokey Joe" revival. the female critic has two bad marks un her career, both jack Viertel shows! (must be a coincidence)