That’s what I said as I watched the credits roll through the beginning of tonight’s episode of 24.  Seems Tim Iacofano (pronounced Ice-ah-fahn-oh) directed this episode, and has been a producer of 24 since 2003 (is that when the show started??).  I remember Tim when he worked as an executive for Paramount Pictures’ Network Television division (I can’t remember now what his title was when he left — VP of Production??).

Anyway, I always thought Tim was a cool dude, even though I didn’t know him very well.

I have a silly story that doesn’t involve him personally, just his name. I was filling in for another executive assistant up in the admin building one day (this was on the Paramount lot) and I got a call from a woman who was very insistent her call was expected by the senior executive (one of Tim’s bosses).  She wasn’t on my "put through" list so I inquired further into her claim. Eventually, in exasperation, she said she was, and I’m quoting directly now, "a good friend of Tim Iya-coh-fano (how most people who don’t know Time would pronounce his last name phonetically) and he told her to call this executive (who was actually Tim’s boss)."

I had to give her points for chutzpah. But then I kindly told her I knew she wasn’t a good friend of Tim Ice-ah-fano’s, because if she were she’d at least know how to properly pronounce his name.

She hung up on me. Imagine!