Martini Shot

By KCRWArts

Martini Shot episodes

August 30, 2007 Quality Control
I finished a book recently called Hollywood Economics by a brilliant
mathematician named Arthur Devany. I say "finished" the book instead of
"read" the book because it's filled with a lot of complicated graphs
and tables, and words like "Gaussian curve" and "fractal" which
resulted in me turning a lot of pages in eye-watering stupefaction. But
I got the gist...
5 min
August 23, 2007 The Larrys
The professional code among comedy writers dictates that if you have a friend who is producing a pilot, you are honor-bound to volunteer your services for the pilot week...
5 min
August 16, 2007 Homeless Guy
So a few mornings ago, I'm walking my dog along Ocean Front Walk in
Venice. It's an early weekday morning, and I'll be honest: I'm not
looking my best. You know, it's in the morning. I'm walking the dog.
I'm not, you know, pitching. So I have on a pair of shorts that may be
tattered, and a t-shirt that may have been used, recently, to mop up
some kind of spill. But I repeat – I'm just walking the dog...
5 min
August 09, 2007 Summer Sign-Up 2007
I'm sort of a neat person. I try to stay organized. Not out of any creepy OCD kind of thing – I mean, I know a guy who, when he buys a new package of athletic socks, labels and numbers them with a sharpie – you know, 1L, 1R, for pair number one, left foot, pair number one, right foot. Just in case...
4 min
August 02, 2007 Running for Trains
A guy I know tells this story: He and a student friend are in Paris.
They're going to take the Metro somewhere, and as they're going through
the turn-style, they hear the train arriving and its doors opening. The
guy starts to run when his friend grabs him by the arm and stops him
and says, "I don't run for trains..."
5 min
July 26, 2007 Early Later
A few years ago, I went to cooking school, briefly, and I learned a
lot. But one of the most interesting things I learned was about food
safety...
5 min
July 19, 2007 Here's the Great Part
I went to an event a few weeks ago for the launch of a new web media company. I go to those kinds of things about once every, well these days, about once a day. There are zillions of these new web enterprises around, all with the kinds of fanciful, made-up names that create the image of young, fun-loving kids in interesting t-shirts watching web videos as they sit in some cool bar waiting for their ultimate Frisbee friends to show up or text them or meet them where their favorite band is playing...
5 min
July 12, 2007 The Bible
The first thing an amateur writer does, when he sits down to create a television series, is to figure it all out. He'll map out characters, interrelationships, future story arcs, possible late season developments -– you know, actually create a series...
6 min
June 28, 2007 Game the System
A few years ago, a friend of mine shot a pilot. It was supposed to be a
promising pilot, but somewhere between the script and casting, the
network started getting concerned about the darkly comic tone, the
suggestive, edgy storylines, and the sharpness of the writing. All of
those items introduce a level of risk into the development process --
career risk for the executives, specifically -- so usually that's the
first stuff they want out...
6 min
June 21, 2007 My Bollywood Age
I have an actress friend from India -- she's a Bollywood starlet -- and
she tells me that over there, if you're a Bollywood star and you're
married, and you want to stay a Bollywood star, you have to keep your
marriage a secret...
5 min