When voters approved the construction of Denver International Airport in 1989, the initial plan was to turn Stapleton Airport’s 4,700 acres into a major film and TV studio. A contest was announced seeking pilot scripts for a Denver-based sit-com to be the first big thing produced there.

I entered a spec script called “Dirty Little War,” based on the everyday absurdities of working in the sports department at the Denver Post, which was then locked in perhaps the last great newspaper war with the rival Rocky Mountain News. One that would roil on for another 20 years in, at times, stupidly funny ways.

I was a part-time clerk tasked with typing in the night’s “agate” – that’s all the tiny type ranging from box scores to the next day’s dog-racing entries at the Mile High Kennel Club. As Archi

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