Martini Shot

By KCRWArts

Martini Shot episodes

June 26, 2008 Casting
You can make a good movie from a bad script. You can make a good
television show from a bad script, too, though it's slightly trickier.
And of course, the reverse is true, too: a lot of wonderful scripts
have turned pretty awful when they got to the screen...
5 min
June 19, 2008 The Last Day in the Business
There's an old cliché about people in this business shouting at each other, "You'll never do business in this town again," or something along those lines –- as if a person (any person) was powerful enough to read someone out of the entertainment industry...
6 min
June 12, 2008 Craft Services
The best way to give somebody bad news is, first, give them a doughnut.
This is basically the idea behind what we in Hollywood call "Craft
Services..."
6 min
June 05, 2008 My Entrepreneurial Attitude
There was a time, not too long ago, when the best way to cast a
television show was to make a list of the biggest stars you could think
of who were currently having money troubles. And then you'd work your
way down the list until money troubles plotted on the X-axis and size
of part plotted on the Y-axis met, and, suddenly, you'd have a cast...
5 min
May 29, 2008 We Love You
The trick to being successful in the entertainment business – maybe
it's the trick in every business, I don't know – is to get people to do
stuff for you without realizing that they're doing it. Get people to
write your script, be in your movie, produce your pilot, for as little
cash outlay as possible...
5 min
May 22, 2008 Faster Funnier
We were shooting a pilot a few years ago, and one of the actresses was,
for some reason, wearing a strange-looking headscarf. At some point, I
guess, one of us had approved it, but on shoot night, it looked a
little odd. It wasn't until we had three scenes shot that someone from
the network mentioned it...
5 min
May 15, 2008 The Bad One
Sometimes in movies or TV shows, there's a moment where a character
reveals something about himself, something embarrassing or humiliating,
but something he hopes other characters share. And after an awkwardly
humorous pause, it turns out they do, and the characters are drawn
closer together thanks to the one character's willingness to be honest
and vulnerable...
5 min
May 08, 2008 Second Act Trouble
Among the many, many smart things F. Scott Fitzgerald said, surely the
least smart is, "There are no second acts in American lives..."
5 min
May 01, 2008 Milt and Marty
Every writer – well, every comedy writer – has made this mistake.
You're at work, and you're laughing with your colleagues, about
something – usually what we call a "room run" – a joke that originates
entirely in the writers' room, one that's usually so objectionable, so
foul, so indefensibly cruel and wrong and ugly, that the entire room is
paralyzed by laughter...
5 min
April 24, 2008 Dark Skies
5 min