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January 01, 1990 - November 18, 2012 + Martini Shot
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...
The Call
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A friend of mine has a pilot script at a network that was developing three scripts that dealt with the same basic subject. So there...
The Cake Is Not Here
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Not too long ago, I was shooting on location – well, that sounds rather glamorous: the location was West LA – but the whole company...
Shutting Down
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This town shuts down for the holidays, someone told me years ago, around the end of October. Which isn't really the holidays – unless you've...
MyFriendsPlace.org
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Everyone in this business knows someone who's had a close call. I don't mean crossing the street and almost getting hit by a bus, I...
Pitching Problems
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Haz Mat
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A friend of mine who lives at the beach once woke up at dawn to discover that the house next door was surrounded by brightly...
Bad Idea
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One of the least meaningful words in the English language is the word "creative," because it implies that there's something else, something “non-creative” and that...
The Comments
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It wasn’t too long ago that you could walk through a hotel or some other kind of breakfast spot, and everyone you saw was buried...
Late
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I was late to a meeting recently – really late, I mean, like 25 minutes late – and I'm aware, of course, that even five...
George Hickenlooper
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It's a storytelling axiom in Hollywood – and it's good business, too – to remember that whenever it's at all possible to deliver a happy...
Big Pot of Coffee
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Once, when I was thinking about renting a small office to write in, I looked at a space being vacated by another writer. He had...
In Search Of
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In olden times – or back in the day, as the kids say – as if they have any idea what that day was even...
