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Another humiliating adventure in radio 26 Aug 2013 | 08:23 pm
This is yet another sordid true story from my early radio career – those halcyon days in the ‘70s when I bounced around the country playing top 40 hits as Beaver Cleaver. Top 40 stations back then co...
Here's a first look.... 25 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
at the cover of my new book: ...coming to a Kindle or ebook near you! If there's a genre of "Comedy Noir" it fits into that category. MUST KILL TV is a scathing satire on television and murder. It...
Why I love Meryl Streep 25 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
The only thing better would be if she were holding one of her Oscars.
Technical advisers 24 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
A lot of shows use technical advisers. It’s hard enough to write a good autopsy scene without also having to know anatomy. Sure, writers spent a lot of their high school nights at home alone, but we d...
Friday Questions 23 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Here hey are: Todd A. starts us off: Both Cheers and Wings went through a couple cast shakeups.Wings alone added Tony Shaloub, Farrah Forke & Amy Yasbek, while losing Thomas Haden Church. Have you e...
IN A WORLD -- my review 22 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
In a world of mind-numbing hollow big budget summer blockbusters and lackluster sequels, one little film dares to be sweet and funny and real. I wish I had the big booming voice to do that last sente...
R.I.P. Elmore Leonard 21 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Like all writers, I was greatly saddened to learn of Elmore Leonard’s passing yesterday. He was 87. Until a recent stroke, he was writing until the end. His fiction was always so vivid, his stories cl...
One of my most cherished possessions 20 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
When working with the great Larry Gelbart, I had mentioned to him that my favorite MASH script of his an episode called "The More I See You" from season four. Blythe Danner guests as Hawkeye's former...
Lee Daniels' THE BUTLER: My review 19 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
I truly wanted to love this movie. The story is important and its message is one that everyone needs to hear. Unfortunately, LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER falls way short of the mark. The subject matter des...
Attention fellow Natalie Wood freaks! 18 Aug 2013 | 09:24 pm
TCM is devoting this whole day to a Natalie Wood marathon. There goes my Sunday. As longtime readers (two weeks) of this blog know, I am obsessed with Natalie Wood. Whenever I can’t find an appropria...
