Day 2 -- Wednesday, April 17 No doubt about it, Sun Gods is a fun show to work on. The guys are friendly and funny, and when I say "guys" I mean nearly everybody -- actors, writers, directors, the whole squad. There are only a handful of feminine voices on the set. (But I'm a professional; I can rise above that.) It's the male dynamic and spirit of camaraderie that this show will live or die by. We put all of the scenes on their feet today. There are moments that are amusing. The characters are funny. The actors are funny. The show needs to find its rhythm and we may have ABC's next big hit.

Paul and I had an interesting exchange today that I hope he didn't take the wrong way. The first act ends with a fight between two of the salesmen. Then there's a commercial, then the second act begins and the two guys are still fighting. Paul suggested that we not break up the fight in the middle while shooting the scenes for an audience.

"We shouldn't stop the fight," he said, "it will look fake to the audience."

I couldn't resist. "Well, sure, but I think the missing wall here is going to seem fake, too, but they'll probably be OK with it."

There were a few people listening in to the discussion on the set and most laughed at my comment. I immediately felt bad because Paul and I don't know each other very well and I didn't want him to feel I was picking on him, I was just making a joke.

He turned to me and said, "You got me." So I think he and I are square.

There was a moment near the end of the day, as we finished rehearsing the last scene that we all sat down and some comment was made that it was coming along nicely. Paul replied, "All we need to do now is learn our lines." Now I don't know if I was being paranoid, but Paul, Frank, and Channon were all pretty much off-book. They didn't go to the line-learning school I attended where the first two or three days are just throw-away days. The real learning comes later when all the jokes are less likely to disappear. So the only person who really needed to learn their lines was, in fact, me. Was he actually talking to me and pretending to address it to everyone? Perhaps it was a little revenge for the earlier remark. I don't know.

Go on to Day 3.

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