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Google Plus

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I have a friend who has 13,487 Twitter followers, and the reason I know that is because he mentions it a lot. Like at lunch,...
Write What You Know

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Write what you know, is the advice writers often get. Which in Los Angeles, unfortunately, means a lot of scripts about private school tuition and...
In Person

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Do the Work for Free

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I was talking things over with some colleagues yesterday – we're all working together on a project, and we were trying to figure out what...
The Hobo

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Once, not too long ago, I went to a fancy store on a Saturday afternoon to buy a suit. Before I went to the store,...
No Substitutions

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Around the corner from me in Venice Beach is a restaurant with an unpronounceable name. Or maybe it's only pronounceable if you're cool enough, and...
Break Up

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Just in Case

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An actor friend of mine once fired his agent for sending him out on too many auditions where he looked exactly like everyone else auditioning...
Your Description

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An actor friend of mine – yeah, I have them – once landed a fair-sized part on a series. When he shared the news with...
Sweat Act

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Ashton Kutcher is about to save television. Okay, he's not exactly saving it...
Deluxe Nut

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Some celebrities have side businesses, like restaurants or cosmetic lines. Some appear in Japanese commercials, some on the Home Shopping network...
Itchy

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When things get too complicated, or I want to get out of a conversation, I get itchy. Upgrading software, calling customer support, figuring out a...
I Love Lucy

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The story goes that halfway through the first script reading for an episode of Lucille Ball's final, doomed ABC sit-com in the late 1980's, she...
The Fever

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I had this fever for about three weeks – and that's not a euphemism, I mean an actual hot brain, exhausting, sweaty alarmingly high body...
Trying to Help

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The way the television business used to work was, if you had a pilot in production, you'd call up your writer friends and ask them...