Background
Keenan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He grew up in the blue collar neighborhood of Cambridgeport.
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My Lucky Star: A Novel
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Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan (1992-11-01)
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Putting on the Ritz
(The witty duo from Blue Heaven invade the entourage of a ...)
The witty duo from Blue Heaven invade the entourage of a tasteless real estate/media magnate, attempt to turn his talentless wife into a chanteuse, and vie for the affections of a suave magazine editor, in this deftly delicious comedy of bad manners, financial skullduggery, and romantic infighting.
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Blue Heaven
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Meet Gilbert and Moira - the strangest couple to ever marry for each other's money. Living in New York in 1991 is Gilbert Selwyn, a young man possessed of boundless charm and an allergy to employment, who has devised a plan to wring a nice pile of loot from his mother's newest (and obscenely wealthy) husband. The scheme, simply put, is to get married for the gifts. But Gilbert, who's gay, needs a fiancee...Enter Moira Finch, a demonically conniving young woman whose own mother, having recently married the Duke of Dorsetshire, will contribute richly to the couple's receipts. Enter, too, Philip Cavanagh, Gilbert's longtime friend, former lover, and highly strung Best Man. And enter, finally, the Cellinis, Gilbert's huge internecine stepfamily, whose fortune has not been amassed as innocently as Gilbert first thought, and who conform rather more closely to Italian-American stereotypes than Gilbert would like to believe. As Gilbert, Moira, and Philip struggle to keep their plot under wraps, the scams get bigger and more perilous, deceit multiplies, and a wonderfully calamitous trail leads us towards what could be the wedding of the season.
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Putting on the Ritz Paperback - November 1, 1992
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Joe Keenan
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Keenan attended Cambridge public school"s Academically Talented program for 6th-8th grade.
Career
His family is Irish American and Roman Catholic. He has a twin brother, John, and two other siblings Ronald and Geraldine. Boston College High School and Columbia College.
In 1991 Cheers creators James Burrows and Glen and Les Charles, having read Keenan"s novel Blue Heaven, invited Keenan to create a new sitcom for their production company.
The resulting pilot, Gloria Vane, starring JoBeth Williams, was not picked up by a network, but it led to a writing post on He joined the staff of the sitcom as an executive story editor in 1994 for the series" second year. During his six-season tenure on he rose through the ranks from executive story editor to co-producer, supervising producer, co-executive producer, and finally, executive producer.
He was executive producer when the series ended in 2004. In 2006, Keenan joined Desperate Housewives as a writer and executive producer for the third season of the television show.
Although his work received good critical response, including having one of his episodes,"Bang", named the best of the season by many critics, he chose to leave the series after one year.
However he is still credited as being a consulting producer and even wrote the Season 4 episode "Distant past" Keenan also created two short-lived comedy series with fellow producer/writer Christopher Lloyd: Bram and Alice in 2002 and Out of Practice in 2005. He also co-wrote the 1994 film Sleep with Maine as well as the screenplay for the 2007 Annie Award-winning animated feature Flushed Away. G. Keenan lives in Los Angeles, and does not drive a car.
He is openly gay, and since 1982, has been partnered with Gerry Bernardi.
Achievements
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In 1992, his first play, The Times, a musical that charts the course of a seventeen-year marriage between Liz, an actress, and Ted, a writer, won the Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater, awarded by The American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1993, the lyrics for The Times won the Edward Kleban Award. His first produced script for the series, "The Matchmaker," received an Emmy Award nomination, a GLAAD Media Award, and the 1995 Writers Guild Award for Episodic Comedy. He won a writing Emmy Award in 1996 for being one of eight writers of the classic Season 3 episode, "Moon Dance," and also received Emmy Award nominations for "The Ski Lodge" episode in 1998 and, with Christopher Lloyd, "Something Borrowed, Someone Blue," in 2000, which won the 2001 WGA award for Episodic Comedy. He also co-wrote the series finale, "Goodnight, Seattle." Keenan won five Emmy Awards during his tenure on the show. He was nominated for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series five times, and won once. He won the Outstanding Comedy Series award four times for his work as the show"s producer. He also won two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the series. Putting On the Ritz won the Lambda Literary Award for Humor in 1991, and My Lucky Star won the Lambda Literary Award for Humor in 2006. In October 2007, the novel also won the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
Works
book
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Putting on the Ritz
(The witty duo from Blue Heaven invade the entourage of a ...)
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Blue Heaven
(Meet Gilbert and Moira - the strangest couple to ever mar...)
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My Lucky Star: A Novel
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- Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan (1992-11-01)
- Putting on the Ritz Paperback - November 1, 1992
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Putting on the Ritz
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Nationality
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Religion
Roman Catholic
Awards
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Writers Guild of America Award; Lambda Literary Award GLAAD Media award; Lambda Literary Award; Emmy award; the Outstanding Comedy Series award
Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.