I don’t know the exact demographics of this podcast, so sadly, I think I need to say this before I get going: Years ago, there was a show on American television called “Webster.”
Here’s what you need to bear in mind, for this particular story to pay off. First, I like to cook, and I have a refrigerator and freezer in my garage filled with obscure cuts of...
The other night I was out walking with my dog, and as I was bending over to scoop up her nightly HazMat, I noticed a couple of large index cards on the ground…
A friend of mine was running an action adventure show not too long ago, and he heard what I think is the worst pitch ever from a writer who wanted a free-lance episode…
A famous actor once tried to describe the rigors of being in production. The hours are long, the food is mediocre, the living quarters are cramped – “basically,” he said, without a smidgen of irony,...
This is going to sound crazy, but the truth is, I don’t really know any celebrities. I mean, I know a few well-known people, I guess…
There’s an old reporter’s saying that they use when a story or rumor perfectly illustrates the point the reporter is trying to make, “Too good to check.”
People come out to LA in waves, and those who come out at roughly the same time end up knowing each other, from film school or threadbare parties or friend-of-a-friend-who’s-an-assistant-to-somebody-famous connections, that kind of thing…
A friend of mine told me that a certain legendary television writer and executive producer once dispensed this bit of wisdom, which for my money is the single best piece of advice I’ve ever heard:...