R.I.P. Thomas T.S. Cook

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• T.S. Cook also volunteered as a mentor for Veterans, as part of the WGA Veterans Workshops. He gave his valuable time, and his invaluable insight for combat Vets who want to write for TV, and film. He was fantastic — insightful, and inspirational. The Vets in the program, and his fellow mentors, learned a great deal from him, and I was truly inspired by his passion, and compassion. He was a good writer, and he was a great guy.

  Comment by robert b garant — Wednesday January 9, 2013 @ 1:16pm PST  Reply to this post

• We were a two man lit agency in the late 70s and my partner represented Tom Cook. Tom was a fine writer and a person. When he wrote the China Syndrome I had an offer to novelize it for $115,000 which was a good sum in those days. Michael Douglas called and said he owed it to his agents at WMA to try to make a deal. They did….for $25,000. I know Tom could have used the extra dollars (and so could we) but that was then and this is now.

  Comment by holly vet — Wednesday January 9, 2013 @ 1:41pm PST  Reply to this post

• Had the absolute pleasure to meet Tom back in 2004 to interview him about his time on AIRWOLF after I’d produced the official ‘Airwolf Themes’ soundtrack for the show. He wrote the couple of the top fan-favourite episodes for the show as well as producing during its 2nd Season for CBS’ mandate to ‘domestic’ the show away from the international spy stuff against the “Red Menace” (which is how it was conceived by the 1st Season producers), so it was a pleasure to hear this gentle man’s witty banter and laser-recollection of detail that others would have long since forgotten.

  My sympathies to his lovely wife, Marie Monique de Varennes; and their family.

  Comment by Mark J.Cairns — Thursday January 10, 2013 @ 12:17pm PST  Reply to this post