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I met a friend last week who I hadn't seen in a few years. Well, it's probably more accurate to say he's a friend of a friend. The last time we met, he had written...

In movies and on television, when characters sit down to work on a computer–and even when one is just there, in the background–it's almost always a Mac, despite the fact that...

I once knew someone who had two ways to say the word "because…." She would pronounce it one way…another way at other times… and I spent a few years being baffled...

People who work in show business tend to be sort of perversely proud of how nutty it is. We like to think...it's more a case of making lemonade out of lemons – but we talk...

Not too long ago, I was trying to cast a television show, and we wanted to cast a certain actor who just wasn't doing television...

For two weeks in the summer, Hollywood empties out. This happens twice a year – the town also evacuates during the weeks around Christmas and the New Year and...

I have a friend who has 13,487 Twitter followers, and the reason I know that is because he mentions it a lot. Like at lunch, the waiter will come and he'll say...

Write what you know, is the advice writers often get.  Which in Los Angeles, unfortunately, means a lot of scripts about private school tuition and Prius driving, suggesting...