A while back, a Los Angeles-based producer approached Tink and me to gage our potential interest in writing a historical mini-series about the life of whiskey maker Jack Daniel. Though most people in Hollywood are incredulous that an accomplished television writer such as John Tinker would just up and move to the Deep South, they are smart enough to know it does, in fact, increase his creative I.Q. He is developing material by simply living among a region of people so different from Beverly Hills or Pacific Palisades. The first words out of Tink’s mouth were, “Definitely!