A one-time aspiring author has seen his life take a tumble down the ladder of literary aspirations after prose came verse, then drama, then the ignominious wasteland of the sitcom, and then, because failure's always ready to step in with another bottom rung, a badly paid job as a reader of other people's sitcoms Then suddenly there's new hope Hollywood, fame, money and women are all within his eager grasp He just has to do something awful And get away with it