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July 25, 2018 The Skanner Page 7 Bids & Classified Advertising deadlines 12:00 Noon Monday Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Interview cont’d from pg 5 wanted to write for TV. He began his assault on Hollywood as an assis- tant to former Saturday Night Live writer Marga- ret Oberman. He got his first break on the Dick Wolf-pro- duced WB series D.C. From there, he wrote made-for-television movies for CBS, MTV and VH1, as well as pilots for ABC Family, MTV, NBC , Sony and FOX. James earned a Day- time Emmy nomina- tion in 2001 writing for MTV’s Spyder Games. In 2007, he merged his pas- sion for tennis and writ- ing and began blogging and reporting for Tennis Chanel, Tennis Magazine and USA Today. He also co-wrote young adult novel The Academy: Game On. A graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. New- house School of Public Communications, James currently resides in Los Angeles. Here, he talks about the new season of Hit the Floor. The show airs Tuesday nights on BET at 10 pm ET/PT. a show that wasn’t my passion project. It didn’t feed me, although I had fun writing it. And af- terwards, I needed some sort of a palette cleanser and I decided I’m going to just write this one show without paying atten- tion to what people are asking for, or asking my- self is this what’s hot and what’s selling, or what will my agent or the net- works think of this. And I sat down and wrote an To place your ad, email advertising@theskanner.com or go to www.TheSkanner.com and click on the “Ads” menu original pilot that hasn’t been made yet, but has gotten me every meet- ing I’ve had ever since. My career did a total 180 when I started writing what entertains me and what I find fun instead of stuff that was just for the paycheck, because that kills you. KW: How would you describe the show in 25 words or less? JL: Behind the scenes professional basketball through the eyes of the players, dancers and managers. It’s sex, dra- ma, dancing, and sports! moles. [Laughs and looks around] Read the rest of this interview at TheSkanner.com Community Business Directory INSURANCE KW: Have you spent a lot of time around any professional players and cheerleaders? JL: Yes, I researched the show in order for the characters to be real, and I spent time speaking to players and dancers, and I definitely have my Portland International Airport (PDX) Parking Additions and Consolidated Rental Car Facility (PACR) Low Voltage, Structured Cabling Trade Partner JE Dunn Construction invites written and sealed proposals for qualified Trade Part- ners to provide Low Voltage, Structured Cabling work on the PACR project RFP Responses due 2:00pm PST August 3, 2018 A pre-bid meeting will be located at the PDX Conference Center, 7000 NE Airport Way, St. Helens B Conference Room, on July 19, 2018 at 10:00 AM for answering any questions regarding the work on this Project. Proposals may also be delivered by email to Mike Kettleson. Any Proposal received after the specified date and time will not be considered. Please submit all questions in writing to mike.kettleson@jedunn.com. REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS 4th & Montgomery Permit Package #1 Plans & Specs dated 7/13/18 Proposals Due: 8/2/18 by 2 PM 424 NW 14th Ave, Portland, OR 97209 | (503) 978-0800 The general description of work for this Request for Proposals is as follows: Construction Survey- ing, Dampproofing & Waterproofing, Earthwork and Site Utilities, Shoring, and Tower Crane Rental & Erection. JE Dunn Construction reserves the right to select the best value response, negotiate with multiple bidders, or reject all responses. This is an Equal Opportunity and encourages Minority, Woman, Veteran, and Emerging Small Business participation. 7-18,25,8-1-18 Kam Williams: Hi James, thanks for the in- terview. James LaRosa: Nice to speak with you, Kam. Documents will be made available through Building Connected. Please e-mail Elliott Bour- geois to request an invitation to bid. Please submit questions via email to Jeff Sling- er by 7/23/18. Senior Project Manager: Jeff Slinger - jslinger@andersen-const.com Senior Estimator: Emily Hager - ehager@andersen-const.com KW: Congratulations on the fourth season of “Hit the Floor.” What in- spired you to create the series? JL: Thank you. Early in my career, I was writing what I thought people would go for and I didn’t like what I was doing, but you want to pay your bills and you want to launch things. You’d hear that a network was looking for a hospital drama or a certain kind of show and everyone would get the same mes- sage and everyone would develop the same show, and I was on that track. too. 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