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January 01, 1990 - November 18, 2012 + Martini Shot
What's Your Social? 
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When I first came to Hollywood to be a writer – and it's really none of your business when, exactly, that was – what I...
Show Business
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ma/ma100303show_business
About a week after I started working as a television writer, a guy who had been in the business a while was telling me a...
Kick the Can
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A "first look" deal is a deal between a producer or writer-producer and a studio or network that stipulates, essentially, that in exchange for a...
Robot Baby
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Having a baby is hard, I'm told, but it can't be harder than working with a baby. And I don't mean that metaphorically, either.
Courtesy Laugh
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The great thing about laughter – and the big reason most of the writers I know got into comedy in the first place – is...
How Funny?
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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Writers in Hollywood, as I might have mentioned once or twice before, get a lot of notes. From the studio. From the network....
Get Over It
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It's pilot season – maybe you've detected the joy in the air? It's come a little late this year – writers have been a little...
Think Like a Writer
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At some point in its creation, every writing project – a feature film script, a TV pilot, a four minute radio commentary, whatever -- is...
Did We Lose You?
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Writing is supposed to be a solitary thing. A lonely life. Not in the television business. Writers for television are positively surrounded by people. Executives,...
Tomatoes
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Here's what it's come to. I take a simple kitchen timer – this one is shaped like a tomato – and I set it for...
Does This Work?
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One morning, a few years ago, when I had a show in production, I got a call from an executive at the studio. He was...
My Friend's Place
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Writers, like farmers, can find the bad news in any kind of weather. When it rains, a little too much, farmers complain about the bumper...
Important Phone Calls
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Let This One Go
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Official Transcript
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A lot of companies now offer a cool service. They'll take your strings of voice-mails and automatically transcribe them into text. There's an iPhone app...
