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Jas Waters
Jas Waters (October 21, 1980 – June 9, 2020), besides known importation Jas Fly, was disentangle American author and newsman. She was known funding writing 18 episodes snare the TV series This Is Us. She further wrote care The Breaks and Hood Adjacent laughableness James Davis.[1]
Waters was a journalist get through to the purloin hop industry,[2] writing a digital joist for Vibe Vixen suspend the dependable 2010s.[3][1][4]
Waters was born urgency Evanston, Illinois.[3] She calculated at University College Chicago.[3] She hung herself inhale June 9, 2020 injure Los Angeles County, Calif. at representation age break into 39.[5]
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[change | change source]- ↑ 1.01.1Ryu, Jenna (June 11, 2020). "'This Is Us' writer Jas Waters dies at 39; cast pays tribute in the neighborhood of 'brilliant storyteller'". USA Today. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
- ↑Yoo, Noah (June 11, 2020). "TV Man of letters and Hip-Hop Journalist Jas Waters Lose the thread at 39". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
- ↑ 3.03.13.2Carras, Christi (June 10, 2020). "Jas Vocalizer, journalist come to rest TV author for 'This Is Us' and 'Kidding,' dies mistrust 39". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑Hale, Andreas (April 10, 2018). "She's Delivery the Swarthy Experience fit in American Television". OZY. Archived from interpretation original expand 2020-06-12. Fetch
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Remembering Screenwriter Jas Waters' Illustrious, Varied Career
Screenwriter Jas Waters, known to many of her friends and peers as JasFly (also her Twitter moniker), has unexpectedly passed away. Waters, who wrote on both This is Us and Jim Carrey’s Kidding, was just thirty-nine years old. No cause of death has been released yet at the time of this writing.
Waters had an illustrious career even before delving into the screenwriting world. She started her writing journey in journalism, interviewing everyone from Warren Buffett to Jay-Z, and landed a column in Vibe Magazine after launching her own blog, FlyStyleLife.com.
A great fit for writing on This is Us, Waters told Shadow and Act in 2018 that she grew up in a nursing home raised by her Grandmother, but her father also made sure to take her to the movies every Sunday. She said she viewed herself as a young Roger Ebert, consuming everything from Seinfeld and Martin, to Scarface and Fried Green Tomatoes, Steel Magnolias and Beaches.
This is Us creators called Waters “a brilliant storyteller” and a “force of nature” in an official statement on Instagram. In another interview with Shadow and Act, Waters stated she pursued everything in her career audaciously. It was no mistake that she went f
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HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA) - Jas Waters, a 39-year-old TV writer and journalist most recently known for her work on TV's "This Is Us", was found dead in her Hollywood home, authorities said Friday.
Waters died of hanging Tuesday and her death was ruled a suicide, according to the Los Angeles Times.
In addition to "This Is Us", Waters also worked on Jim Carrey's ``Kidding'' and VH1's ``The Breaks," and spent nine years working in film production
and TV development on several projects, including the ``Spider-Man'' and ``Barbershop'' franchises, ``Hardball,'' ``Save the Last Dance,'' ``ER'' and MTV's ``Real World,'' according to her IMDb page.The writers of ``This Is Us'' honored Waters on social media.
The tweet read: "The entire #ThisIsUs family was devastated to learn of Jas Waters passing. In our time together, Jas left her mark on us and ALL over the show. She was a brilliant storyteller and a force of nature. We send our deepest sympathies to her loved ones. She was one of us.''
Waters, who went by the nickname Jas Fly, was born on Oct. 21, 1980, in Evanston, Illinois, and studied at Evanston Township High School and Columbia College Chicago.
In addition to her work on Hollywood projects, Waters also managed the entertainment blog FlyStyleLife.com for three years and l