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‘GENTLEMAN’ SERVES AS INSPIRATION FOR NEW CBS COMEDY SERIES THIS FALL by FREYA POTEMPA, CONTRIBUTING WRITER fpotempa@outandaboutnewspaper.com
“A gentleman is someone knows how to be there when needed and gets out of the way the rest of the time.” That is the slogan of Nashville author John Bridges. 61, John laughs a lot, talks a lot, and knows a hell of a lot about etiquette. Author of the How to be a Gentleman book series, Bridges wrote the book, and then several more, for men. “They don’t tell you how to plan a wedding reception. They’re there to give you basic principles.” Gentleman has been translated into 15 languages, and has had a major update a few years ago to include social media and cell phone niceties. “I think we have more opportunities to misbehave in John Bridge's book "How to Be a Gentleman" was the inspiration ways we didn’t have before cell phones and Internet,” Bridges behind a recent television sitcom on CBS. Photo provided. says. “I think that behooves us to try and pay more attention to our behavior. The basic principles don’t change. Just because you’ve got a cell phone or iPhone doesn’t mean you have a license to go crazy and make yourself the center of attention all the time. Try to remember these things are tools, and in a way they’re privileges.” Although we encounter rudeness from misuse of technology, Bridges thinks people actually do still care about manners. “I do think that I’m finding that with this series that people actually do care about this as a matter of principle,” he says. “Younger people and particularly the mothers and girlfriends of younger people do care how people behave. They understand that it’s going to be helpful to know these things. There remains a concern about doing the right thing.” Proving manners matter, this fall How to Be a Gentleman moved to maybe the most un-gentlemanly of places, prime time television. The series starred David Hornsby as a beleaguered etiquette columnist. Hornsby received the books as a teenager from his mother, and treasured them so much he wanted to turn them into a show. Though the series is only scheduled for a nine-show run, Bridges was elated that his idea was turned into a network television show. “A few years ago, [David] said he has this idea for turning the books into a sitcom, which was amazing to me,” he says. The book series just got a new facelift as well, and by Christmas will be released with all new covers for the rough fellow on your gift list. And Bridges says, it’s really not as difficult to be gentlemanly as we make it out to be. “Essentially a gentleman is someone who thinks about other people. It’s as simple and old fashioned as that.”
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NOVEMBER 2011
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