There’s a bit of cliched movie dialog that people often quote: “That’s so crazy that it just might work.” Implicit in this quote is the admission that most likely the idea will crash and burn, because it’s f****ng crazy.
This is why I’m not all that disappointed in the Los Angeles Opera’s presentation of THE FLY, [...]

A few months back I mentioned I finished a feature-length screenplay. This is not really news per se: I’m sure yours is coming along nicely. But if ya ask me it’s what you do with the finished manuscript that’s important.
Last fall John (the co-writer of the thing) and I took a free half-hour of advice [...]

The Met– The New York Metropolitan Opera– has been offering selections from their current season in selected movie theatres as live HD transmissions. Saturday morning, my wife and I attended the latest one: Puccini’s La Bohème, Produced for the Met by Franco Zeffirelli.
It was something we had intended to do for a while. On New [...]

When you hear episode 102 of the podcast, up later today, you’ll hear the voice of Vivien Latham, depicted here as the brunette on the right. Vivien will be reading the bumpers on the show. I expect you all to treat her just like you do me, and [...]

I just flew back from Vegas and boy is my liver tired.
This is a report of my second annual Vegas Christmas crawl, in which I ditch everyone I know and head for the only town in America where Christmas is the elephant in the room that we’d rather all ignore. Unlike everywhere else, you can [...]

According to Variety, you like Labor.
The WGA trumpeted a pair of surveys Wednesday showing plenty of public sympathy with backing of 69% in a Pepperdine poll and 63% in a SurveyUSA poll, while the companies received a only a smattering of support with 4% and 8%, respectively.
“These polls prove that the public understands what’s at [...]

I worked in movie theatres for years. Not as long as Dan has, but it was my college job and I managed several theatres in San Francisco. It was the dying last days of single-screen theatres in the City, and they were each treasures: the Egyptian-styled Alexandria 3, The Réne Lalíque-inspired Metro, the postwar Moderne [...]

My wife and I used to do improv murder mysteries with a guy named Brent Keast. Brent was a lanky, good lookin’ guy; silvery-haired, quick witted. We lost track of him for a while, then he turned up last night doing his own cabaret show in a bar in Hollywood.
Cabaret, for you people in the [...]