One of the things that's happened recently, since the sharp drop in the

Southern California is burning again, just like last year. But unlike

There are two kinds of people in the world. The kind that can name, or

Once, I was working on a show when the director walked into the

I once worked with a very talented actor who mostly worked in features.

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...

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...

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...