European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Profile Brick do brow King features Syndicate Barbara in drily has in in tin president of Columbia Pic Virris television since july 1904, ind hit current Siru s Ini Lierle Crux like a Fox  thou kor if believe it or Mot and time struck As Woll As inc syndicated or Tel s happening now. In a unique re  , she it married id Barm y Rosen Zweig executive producer of  a , the  cop  she a Corfi itch Sci entry Cor Dikiy was honoured at the Beverly Dillon Motel by n los Angeles support organisation Lor the chains Sheba medical Comer in Tel Aviv. Proceeds from the dinner funded the Hospital s  j. Kuhn Rcpt Ped Iwic immunology Center Nauru d after ii 3-year-old boy who died of blood Iran Stu icon aids and whose parents arc Friend i of Cor Dikiy and Rosin Zweig thu Kushni eks Helen and Jerry were the general co chairmen of the dinner and the evening was dedicated to them and the memory of their son. Corday received the 1935 Sheba humanitarian of the year award. Rosen wig produced the show. A native of new York City where she was born Inlo a theatrical family Corday became a publicist and turned to Lull Lime scriptwriting in 1972 with her former partner Barbara Avidon Wilh whom she wrote the to hour Cagney & Lacey to movie that led to the series. Corday was a to produce and a vice preside no for comedy series development it Abc before assuming her current Job. She is on the steering committees of 1 he Hollywood women s coalition and t he caucus of writers producers and directors. One mor Ning recently in her office in Bur Banff she discussed the k us Nick Case her Job an d her marriage. Q please explain your involvement in inc Kushnick Story a Helen and i have been friends for years. Helen was one of a group of women friends i have who had babies Laic in life. We were All very excited or her when her twins were born. We watched the kids grow up and when Sam got sick and died. It s hard to put yourself Back two years and what link people knew about aids then. There must have been 50 of us who went Over there a lot when Sam was in the Hospital which was such a Short Lime. I mean he was 3. And he was Only in the Hospital if memory serves about to weeks when he died. For six months he Hod a cold he could t get rid of he had been listless he had been getting sicker and ticker. But no one was looking for anything like this. No one had a clue two years a of that a 3-year-old child could have something like that. So when it was finally discovered what it was we were first of All saddened beyond belief and then secondly furious the Hospital did not want hem to put aids on the death certificate. They had to fight to do that. The Hospital was claiming thai the blood transfusion could not have been responsible. I d never been at a child s Lune rat before. It makes me cry now to think about it. From that Day they the Kushnick got very involved in aids research and through them a lot of their friends including Barney and me also got involved we started giving Money and Reading about it and trying to be supportive of what they were doing. That s How we Focally got involved. Q you be had your Columbia Job More than a year now and i keep hearing Good things about you from writers who always complain. A yes they do. Me included. A they seem to think there s a pretty Good atmosphere Here. Maybe you could discuss thai a sure. The major difference in terms of atmosphere is that having someone in this Job who s been a writer and a producer and has been part of the creative Community for a Long Lime is just 3 Little bit different. The writers and producers know when they come to Lack to me about a problem that in s being heard by someone who has said the same words. And i Don t think it s necessarily the fact thai i say yes All the time or that i la be anti studio and pro writer t think Barbara Corday forging roles in traditional Hollywood Barbara Corday they just know that they re getting a real hearing. Q one of the things i m told is that they hear yes from you More than they do Al most of the other studios a that s probably True but Don t Tell my Bosses. Q and yes involve Money. A yes. Sure. Yes almost always involves Money. But if somebody comes to me and says look we think 1his scene could be so much better if we shot it Here instead of there but it s going to Cost us $5,000 More and Iii is Why and this is what it will do for the show Well i m More Likely to say yes than somebody else. That is True. But you could probably find a few people Here who would Tell you that i also know How to say  a there was a period not Loo Long ago when it seemed there were an awful Tot of appoint in. Ants made of women executives at studios and there was sense of tokenism. There now seems to be a second stage where it s More than just being named to a Job and a number of women really have authority. Do i interpret that correctly a yes. I believe that. In the television business anyway. I Don t know too much about the movie Side of the business. We have Here at Columbia television Well the vice president of Pas production i j woman the vice president of drama development is a woman the vice president of movies and miniseries is a woman the vice president of publicity and advertising is a woman he vice president of off network movies is a worn in Iho Var Pri Sidi in of daytime program is a woman. We n i Jim  a lot of women executives Here. A is hat intentional a some were Hen before i Mil Here so you can l pin it All on me. But a rumple have been added since i k�1 Here. I a link i Hope that we re finally reaching the slant-1 where you just pick the Best qualified person. Q let s talk about this rather unique marriage you have. A it s a perfect marriage. We never Sec each other. Well never ret divorced. Q Why Don t you see each other a because i fid up a oui 6, 6 30 in the morning and i m gone by Al . He gets up about 8, 8 30. I gel Homo about 7 30, b o clock and he gets Home about 9 or 10 . I find myself saying to him do you want to have dinner tonight ii sounds like we re dating. But unless we can work it out we see each other about 10 Al night. The other night he came Home about 10 to and wound up not even eating because it was so late that he just did t feel like it. Our life is very comp Icabod in that regard. Q what about weekends a weekends we spent As much Lime As we possibly can together. But there s Atso a lot of other things. Saturday is by Only Day to gel any shopping done or do anything other than Ivok. If god forbid i need a pair of stockings i have to Wail rom one saturday to the next to buy them during the fall of course he has us football on saturdays and nothing interferes with us football. Q of you go with him a Are you kidding absolutely. I be become in 12 years a us football Export. We went to Chicago for the notre Dame game and we went to san Francisco for the Cal game. In s Worth me learning about football just to spend Hal time together. Q do you Exchange a lot of business talk Al Home a yes. A lot. Too much. The Good Side of being married to someone in the same business is that we understand each other. We never Ever say to each other How come you could t be Home earlier if he says i m editing i know where he is i know what he s doing. But the bad Side is that when we arc together we talk about it All the time. Q is there any particular area you talk about More than any other a Cagney & Lacey. We spend an inordinate amount of time talking about Cnancy & Lacey. Q Well that would be logical considering your own creative connection to it a and he s obsessed with it. He uses me As a sounding Board for the political issues for the Points of View of the women to discuss stories Wilh. And that s just the professional part. As a wife obviously we just talk about his Day and what he s having problems with and How things Are going. So i would say that in work related conversation we talk about my work maybe 20 percent to his to percent talking about Cagney & Laccy it where d you meet a we met on a series called sons and daughters that he was producing at Universal. Barbara Avedon and i were sent in to write an episode. 1 me Barney and three weeks later i asked him out. Q you asked him a yes i did. I invited him to my House for dinner and he Sard the Best thing he has Ever Sard to me which was we both work very hard. Why Don t we go out to dinner and i be never cooked another meal since then. I knew right thai minute thai this was the Man i was going to marry. So we went out to dinner and we dated for about live years. We got married in 1979. Q fire years is kind of a Long courtship. As i thought so. He was at the period in his life when he did t want to be committed. Remember when Guys went through thai and he woke up Christmas of 78 and called me up and said of. I m being stupid. 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