The Dialogue An Interview with Screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (2006)

Few screenwriters can concentrate for more than a few hours let alone sustain a career in Hollywood for over 30 years But the blockbuster comedy writing team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel has been making television and film audiences laugh for decades In the early 70s Ganz was writing for The Odd Couple while Mandel was receiving his first paychecks for work on MASH and Busting Loose In total Ganz and Mandel have written an astonishing 18 produced feature screenplays including City Slickers A League of Their Own Mr Saturday Night Forget Paris Where the Heart Is Robots and Fever Pitch while also maintaining a secret career of uncredited rewrites on studio comedies