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ONCE, DURING A LONG, HOT-TEMPERED pilot-production week--making the sample episode for a series I hoped would be picked up by the network that had paid for it and put it […]

Most of the people involved in this story are dead--except me, as of this writing--so I guess I can tell it without sustaining too much career damage. In what seems […]

JERRY SEINFELD, THE FANTASTICALLY SUCCESSFUL COMEDIAN, ONCE TOLD AN interviewer that he didn't like performing his comedy at universities because, in his experience, young people no longer know how to [...]

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I met a guy who was working on a hidden-camera show. Those shows had been a staple of television since its earliest days, [...]

A friend of mine who is new to show business wrote a great feature-film script and he gave it to me to read. 'But here's the thing,' he said. 'I [...]

I counted two dozen dead bodies in the opening few minutes of The Equalizer 3, the latest installment of the hugely profitable Equalizer movie series starring Denzel Washington. Some of [...]

The Brentwood Country Mart is a rustic, red-barn-style open-air shopping center in a tony part of West Los Angeles. It sits on the border of Brentwood and Santa Monica, on [...]

I was walking up Sixth Avenue a few years ago when a man stopped me. 'Are you Rob Long?' he asked. I never know how to answer that question. The [...]

Everyone who has ever watched the long-running television game show Wheel of Fortune has had this experience: You stare at the screen with baffled rage, unable to understand why a [...]

THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE #2207 GUEST: HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS, BISHOP OF ROME, VICAR OF JESUS CHRIST, SUCCESSOR OF THE PRINCE OF THE APOSTLES, SUPREME PONTIFF OF THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH, [...]

MARCH 2024 In December 1992, Ted Danson, the star of the hit sitcom Cheers and my meal ticket for the previous few years, decided that after 11 seasons playing the [...]

UNCORRECTED TRANSCRIPT "THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW" NOVEMBER 17, 2025 D BLOCK Cross talk/Music intro RACHEL MADDOW: We are back and continuing our discussion on the chaos on the border. There […]

'IF IT MAKES YOU feel any better,' a network comedy-development executive told me once, 'we're having a hard time launching any comedies on our network.' This was many years ago [...]

ALMOST EXACTLY 46 years ago-December 1977 -- I was 12 years old, in the orthodontist's chair, getting my mouth fitted for a retainer that I had already decided I would [...]

HOST: Over the past six hours, the Islamic Republic of Iran launched nearly 200 missiles and drones against the State of Israel. Many of those attacks were repelled and intercepted [...]

THE WORLD, I don't need to tell you, is falling apart. That's bad. On the other hand, bad years for the world often mean terrific years for us in Hollywood. [...]

ONCE I HAD A LOT of stuff to get rid of, so I gathered it all in a big pile and called someone in the trash-hauling business to come and [...]

THERE'S a classic moment in Annie Hall when Alvy Singer, Woody Allen's hapless character, is stuck in line at the movies in front of a pompous, bloviating know-it-all holding forth [...]

Dear APPLICANT: Thank you for your interest in joining the customer-service team at the Philadelphia-area Olive Garden restaurant. We here at Olive Garden Store #239 and the entire family of [...]

I HAD A CONVERSATION in 2007 with a partner at one of the biggest venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, and I realize now it was the exact moment I [...]

THE BEST WAY for me to explain the complicated power structure that governs show business, and the reason that Hollywood labor unions exist in such uneasy relationship to one another, [...]

IF YOU UNDERSTAND the call sheet, you understand Hollywood. The call sheet is a daily rundown, put out by the directing team--the director and the first assistant director and the [...]

EVEN IF YOU haven't seen Fatal Attraction, you almost surely know the plot. A husband played by Michael Douglas is left alone for a weekend by his wife and children, [...]

ON MAY 1, the current contract between the Writers Guild of America and the Motion Picture Association expires, which means that, about a week after, people will start yelling at [...]

YEARS AGO, when an aging movie star won an Emmy award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Special--a category specifically designed for aging movie stars--she raced to the [...]

DIRECTOR, CAMPUS RECRUITMENT J. P. MORGAN CHASE COMMERCIAL BANK CORPORATE CLIENT BANKING AND SPECIALIZED INDUSTRIES 270 PARK AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10017 Dear Sir or Madam: I am a student [...]

MEETING TRANSCRIPT 09.21.24 PAGE 4: Trump Campaign Representative Kari Lake: ... I just want to make it clear that if the start time is earlier than 7 p.m. Eastern, it [...]

A FRIEND OF MINE told me that a certain legendary television writer once dispensed this bit of wisdom, which for my money is the single best piece of advice I've [...]

IMMEDIATELY AFTER the director yells 'Cut!' on a film set, someone else yells, 'Check the gates!' The 'gates' are the part of the camera where the film slides behind the [...]

The Mystery of the Glassine Envelope by Franklin W. Dixon Grosset & Dunlap, July 2023 CHAPTER ONE A White House Tour Goes Awry 'Look over here, Frank,' exclaimed Joe Hardy [...]

BROWN BROTHERS Harriman is the oldest private investment bank in the United States and is known for its cautious investment strategy and prudent financial management. These qualities were never more [...]

SOME OF THE most unforgettable movies ever made tell their stories in flashback. Citizen Kane begins with Charles Foster Kane's last words-'Rosebud!'--and works back from there. Sunset Boulevard opens on [...]

KARL MARX, who knew a thing or two about show business, once said that history repeats itself, 'the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' That's what happens in [...]

>>. Pretend you're writing a movie about an elderly president of the United States who is experiencing rapidly advancing dementia. In the movie, how would his political team try to [...]

SOMEWHERE IN THE vaults of Paramount Studios exists a copy of the never-aired pilot episode of Lenny & Squiggy, a mid-1970s attempt to create a spin-off series from the smash [...]

HERE IS HOW a recent television comedy project was described in a popular entertainment-industry trade publication: 'The show centers on a middle-aged single mother who despite her blue-collar lifestyle strives [...]

The goal of this article is to provide a comprehensive guide for healthy living and sports activities to promote the mental and physical development of children and adults with special [...]

A FEW MONTHS AGO, I was helping a friend who was producing a pilot for a big streaming service. When I arrived to hear the cast read the script on [...]

WHEN a writer pitches a project to a network or studio, the process is always the same: The writer is led into a large office with a bunch of young [...]

I REMEMBER A FEW years ago a network executive telling me that the traditional multi-camera situation comedy was dead. 'It's just not the moment for that kind of comedy,' he [...]

The following psychoactive and therapeutic medications are in Phase 4 trials and pending approval: Eunuchstra[TM] For the treatment of diminished potency following a period of politically and culturally submissive behavior. [...]

Not too long ago, a young friend of mine was trying to remember the name of a movie. 'You know that movie where the two women drive off a cliff [...]

When I learned the sad news that P. J. O'Rourke--master storyteller, ideal drinking companion, brilliant observer of the darkly hilarious facts of life--had died of cancer in February, I did [...]