Eisner and I shared a ski instructor, a charming young man named Patrick Hasburgh. As a lark, almost as a practical joke, we got him a job writing for Stephen Cannell on the TV show The A-Team. It was like, “Can we create a Hollywood player out of thin air?” Within a few years, Patrick had cocreated Hardcastle and McCormick and 21 Jump Street with Cannell, and become one of the biggest TV producers around. Make of that what you will.
