Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional and the emotion in the music is built in whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.
I prefer to imagine that my wife a few friends and occasionally my mom are...
Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received....
I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business so I was never interested in that world.