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You never want to throw the audience at the wrong time when the story is important
'Legal' using insider humor to shock Sep 26, 2006
We believe there's something in every show for everybody -- to turn off
David E. Kelley defends 'Boston Legal' May 16, 2006
We seem to be living in a time when dissent is very much equated with disloyalty
David E. Kelley defends 'Boston Legal' May 16, 2006
The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school
Applications down at law schools Feb 09, 2006
I used to be the youngest producer on the lot. Now I'm the oldest
Dave E. Kelley stays put Sep 22, 2005
David Edward Kelley (born April 4, 1956) is an American television writer and producer, best known as the creator of Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Boston Legal and Harry's Law, as well as several films.
Kelley was born in Waterville, Maine, raised in Belmont, Massachusetts and attended the Belmont Hill School. He is the son of legendary Boston University Terriers and New England Whalers hockey coach Jack Kelley and played the game himself. Kelley was a stick boy for the Whalers during his father's time as coach and the captain of the hockey team at Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1979 with a degree in politics.
Demonstrating early on a creative and quirky bent, in his junior year at Princeton, Kelley submitted a paper for a political science class about John F Kennedy's plot to kill Fidel Castro, written as a poem. For his senior thesis he turned the Bill of Rights into a play. "I made each amendment into a character", he said. "The First Amendment is a loudmouth guy who won't shut up. The Second Amendment guy, all he wanted to talk about was his gun collection. Then the 10th Amendment, the one where they say leave the rest for the states to decide, he was a guy with no self-esteem." Also while at Princeton, he was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club.