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January 01, 1990 - March 31, 2012 + Martini Shot
The Vanishing 
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Childbirth, like producing a hit TV pilot, is painful, takes too long, requires muscle relaxants and ultimately involves more people than is strictly efficient. And...
Guess Who?
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ma/ma090401guess_who
A friend of mine tells this story about a pilot he did years ago. It was a pretty simple premise – single dad raising a...
The Gates
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The first time you drive onto a studio lot, the first time the gate lifts and you glide your car into the little fortress of...
No TV on Your TV
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Boxee allows the user to recreate the Hulu experience on the television. And that is a sentence that would make no sense to anyone three
or...
The Tweet
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ma/ma090311the_tweet
There’s an old story about former NBC chief Brandon Tartikoff. While he was running the network in the early 1980’s, he was on the phone...
Positive Rob
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ma/ma090304positive_rob
Not too long ago, I had a meeting with a couple of writers who had
written an excellent pilot. They were experienced, smart guys – they'd
been...
The Check
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ma/ma090225the_check
A few years ago, I had dinner with an actor and
his manager. I was trying to woo this actor to take the lead role in...
Honesty
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ma/ma090218honesty
I have a friend who's an executive at a large television network. No, seriously...
Monkey
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ma/ma090211monkey
Circus monkeys, deep down, are mean. Someone once told me that a decent
circus monkey is only good for about seven or eight years until he
decides...
The DVD Player's Not There
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ma/ma090128the_dvd_players_not_
Right now, we're deep into something called "Awards Season" here in
Hollywood, and if you're not careful, you just might start to think
these kinds of things...
Watching the Baby
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ma/ma090121watching_the_baby
We’ve got a new president. Of the United States, not the studio or network – although we’ll have a new one or two of those...
We Don't Have a Phone
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ma/ma090114we_dont_have_a_phone
First, a little background: Once, a long time ago, a joke in a script fell flat.
This happens every now and then, of course, Well, more...
Easy Sell
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ma/ma090107easy_sell
One of the many, many reasons for never telling anyone on a plane or a train or wherever you happen to be sitting next to...
The Definition of a Problem
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ma/ma081231the_definition_of_a_
I spent most of December on a container ship, heading from Seattle to
Shanghai, across the roof of the Pacific. Bad weather to the south
forced us...
My Friend's Place 2008
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For some reason, I get an e-mail every now and then from an outfit
called "TV Tracker." It's a pretty good service, I think –- I...
