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January 01, 1990 - February 24, 2013 + Martini Shot
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...
A Drink on the House
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There are really only two kinds of businesses that make sense. One, you can make a billion things and sell them for one cent each,...
Sit and Watch
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Lying on Facebook
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A friend of mine finally hit the big time. She was asked to star in her own reality television series. She turned it down flat....
Me and My Shadow
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Sometimes, when I tell friends of mine who are not in the entertainment business, about the goings-on within the entertainment business, I get a sad...
Cleanse
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The Show Runner
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Not too long ago, I was producing a pilot and like all pilot-producing experiences, this one had its moments of panic, short-tempers, and those weird...
Vanity Card
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ma/ma110223vanity_card
You’d think that a business famous for its double-talk and lack of candor would have more complicated and oblique jargon, but the entertainment business is...
Don’t
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I'm teaching a writing class this semester at a large local university. Just one semester. Just one class.
Al Jazeera
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Ricky the Duck
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When I started working in Hollywood, in the early 1990's, people were still talking about a movie called Howard the Duck, which was a comedy...
The Smart Thing to Do
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When you don't have any information to go on, the only thing you can do is make some up. That's sort of the way the...
OK Cupid
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The dating website OK Cupid is run by nerds. Very very nerdish nerds, who like to analyze the huge amount of data a site like...
