Martini Shot

By KCRWArts

Martini Shot episodes

December 04, 2008 Supermarket
One of the things that's happened recently, since the sharp drop in the
number of scripted television shows on the air, is the corresponding
shop rise in the number of television show runners who are hanging
around unemployed, reading the complete newspaper and sitting in coffee
shops with notebooks filled with pages that say "Pilot Idea: Person,
workplace question mark question mark. Marriage conflict difficult.
Family. City question mark question mark."
5 min
November 27, 2008 Drunk
A brilliant actor once told me that the hardest thing to play is drunk. And then he told me how to do it...
5 min
November 20, 2008 Burn
Southern California is burning again, just like last year. But unlike
last year, when the heart of the blaze was tony, expensive Malibu, this
year, maybe in honor of the universally diminished financial picture,
the blazes are mostly in Sylmar...
5 min
November 13, 2008 The Seventies
There are two kinds of people in the world. The kind that can name, or
at least picture, the two Darrens on Bewitched, and everybody else...
5 min
November 06, 2008 The Carousel
Something strange is happening in Hollywood: people are getting fired. Well, let me clarify: people get the sack all the time around here.
Executives are tossed out with such routine indifference that any
executive who hasn't been fired at least three times in his career is
probably not very good at his job...
6 min
October 30, 2008 We Got Nothing
Once, I was working on a show when the director walked into the
writers' room. Most of the time, the director spends the entire day on
the stage, working with the actors. At some point, he calls the writers
to the stage to watch a run-through of the script, and after that the
writers go back to the room and complain about the run-through, make
filthy jokes, complain about other shows on TV, attack and undermine
each other personally, order dinner, then settle in to do the re-write...
5 min
October 23, 2008 Medical
I once worked with a very talented actor who mostly worked in features.
We didn't really know who he was when we were casting that particular
role, but his agent and manager sent us his reel –- a tape with a sample
of some of his best work 0– and it was obvious from the first clip that
he was a gifted, smart, winning, and very funny guy...
5 min
October 15, 2008 Bomb
Not long ago, a newly-minted movie studio chairman flew to Tokyo for his first meeting with the owners of his company. It was one of those corporate kabuki performances, a highly orchestrated and utterly meaningless display of PowerPoint pageantry that unwieldy behemoths prefer to, well, actually talking and deciding things...
6 min
October 09, 2008 Inside the Room
In olden times, when half-hour comedies were on TV a lot, we wrote them mostly as a group, in something we called "The Room," which usually meant a large conference room with a table and chairs and a big sofa and a white-board and a lot of empty take-out containers...
5 min
October 02, 2008 In Contact
I wrote a piece for the Los Angeles Times a year or so ago, about my experiences with the mini-bar at the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas...
6 min