{"id":2949,"date":"2006-06-01T15:19:58","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T13:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2015-05-19T16:22:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T14:22:26","slug":"garrett-lerner-interview-with-mediablvd-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2006\/06\/garrett-lerner-interview-with-mediablvd-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrett Lerner Interview with MediaBlvd Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediablvd.com\/magazine\/the_news\/celebrity\/garrett_lerner,_co-executive_producer_and_writer_of_house_20060531149.html\" target=\"_blank\">Garrett Lerner, Co-Executive Producer and Writer of House<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interview by Christina Radish<\/p>\n<p>MediaBlvd Magazine<\/p>\n<p>Garrett tells Christina and MediaBlvd&#8217;s readers how he came to be involved with &#8216;House&#8217; and how &#8216;Roswell&#8217; is still one of his favorite shows.<\/p>\n<p>Also find out about &#8216;Spinal Muscular Atrophy&#8217;, a disease that Garrett&#8217;s son Zeke has been diagnosed with, and how the BAT (Celebrity Bowl-a-thon) helps to support this worthy cause. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the attention Lerner was receiving from his work on Roswell, Zeke\u2019s illness was brought to light and, since then, various charity events have been organized to raise more money toward finding a cure for the debilitating disease. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt all started off when I auctioned off, with [show creator] Jason Katims\u2019 blessing, a visit to the set of Roswell, to raise money for Spinal Muscular Atrophy.  I wrote a little thing on Kenn Gold\u2019s website, Crashdown.com, about Zeke and the disease, and the response was overwhelming.  Through Kenn, we did another small event &#8212; a screening &#8212; and, at that event, I was approached by Andrea Rosenthal about doing a bowl-a-thon.  I couldn\u2019t believe that she actually pulled the entire thing together.  It was this incredible event that raised $20,000.  We had actors on every lane, mixing with television fans, along with an auction and Q &#038; A.  It\u2019s been a wonderful event, and we\u2019re planning the fourth one now.  (Go to www.bowl4sma.org for more details and information.)  It\u2019s such a rewarding thing for me, personally, because, as a father of a special needs child, you feel helpless and, when you get to be a part of something like this, you get to feel like you\u2019re doing some good, not only for your child, but for all the other kids who suffer from the disease.  Every year, I just feel astonished and lucky, and it\u2019s something great to be a part of.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Be sure to read the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garrett Lerner, Co-Executive Producer and Writer of House Interview by Christina Radish MediaBlvd Magazine Garrett tells Christina and MediaBlvd&#8217;s readers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2394,3],"tags":[1090,70],"coauthors":[2408],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garrett-lerner","category-leading","tag-garrett-lerner","tag-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29559,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/29559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}