Martini Shot

By KCRWArts

Martini Shot episodes

September 25, 2008 Maximum Individual Contribution
Look, let's not get into politics, okay? Too incendiary, and, frankly, my politics, as I've discovered from years of working in Hollywood, aren't really in line with most of my colleagues. I've heard stories from people who are more on my side of the fence, politically, of being denied jobs or shouted at on sets, but my experience has been generally fine – at best, I've been ignored; at worst, the object of a hilariously condescending curiosity, like, "Um, you're a Republican? But, how can that be? I know you. And you're not, like, a terrible person..."
5 min
September 18, 2008 Put That in Writing
This is a strange time in the television business. All of the writers
who are working on shows are working -- they're busy writing and
producing and editing and getting ready for the rolling premieres which
start around now...
5 min
September 11, 2008 My Deal
I heard a story recently that may or may not be true, but since it
perfectly conforms to my prejudices and biases, I'm going to just go
ahead and tell it, act as if it's true, and not bother to pin down its
accuracy. Okay? Here goes...
5 min
August 21, 2008 TV Moscow
Last week, for a whole bunch of peculiar reasons too complicated to get into on public radio, I was in Azerbaijan...

5 min
August 07, 2008 Is the Crew Laughing?
A few years ago, during a long, hot-tempered pilot production week, I
was hanging out backstage, waiting the for fresh cookies to appear on
the craft services table, when I overheard one of the set decorators
ask one of the lighting guys if a certain set decoration looked right...
6 min
July 31, 2008 Paparazzi
A few years ago, I lived at the beach in Santa Monica. It was a
two-story rectangular beach house, and in the afternoons I would sit
on my balcony, smoke a cigar, sip a bourbon, and watch the sun set over
the Pacific...
6 min
July 24, 2008 This Could Be a Pitch
When I was in film school, we used to have to present a few pages every
week of our script in progress, to be, I guess the phrase is
"workshopped" by the rest of the class...
5 min
July 17, 2008 Coach
Once, not too long ago, I was flying back to LA from London. The young
woman in front of my, checking in, was doing her very best to finagle a
free upgrade to first class...
6 min
July 10, 2008 The Basketball
Last week I told the story of a writing team I know, and what happened at their last pitch meeting together...
5 min
July 03, 2008 See?
Once, a writing team I know pitched a show to a network. Pitches are
tricky things – sell too hard, too slick, with too much prepared "Hey!
How are ya?" kind of patter, and you turn everyone off. You turn
something that's supposed to be a sales call disguised as a casual
meeting into a sales call disguised as a…well, disguised as nothing. As
a sales call...
5 min