Gordon Gartrelle sighs: If only I weren't such an honest, respectable negro...

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Gordon Gartrelle sighs: If only I weren't such an honest, respectable negro...

from: XXXX
to: mrgartrelle@gmail.com,
date: Dec 18, 2007 8:03 PM
subject: WGA Residuals
mailed-by: wga.org

Dear Mr. Gartrelle:

Are you by any chance a former writer on “The Cosby Show”?

If so,please contact me. We have been trying to locate you for a long time regarding residual payments owed to you currently in our possession.

Thanks!

XXXX

Writers Guild of America

Foreign Levies Department

(323) xxxxxxx Phone

(323) xxxxxxx FAX

XXXX@wga.org

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: I would have took that money faster than R. Kelley did a #2 on that 15 year old; January 17, 2008 at 8:44 PM
Yobachi said...: I don't get this, and I've seen the Gordon Gatrelle episode of the Cosby Show at least a dozen times since the 80s; I even have tha first season on dvd.; January 17, 2008 at 10:30 PM

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