Most guys don’t love Valentine’s Day. It’s a holiday designed to trap them. If you’re dating more than one woman, you’re dead. If you get th...

The WGA strike has been officially suspended pending ratification (which is pretty much a cinch considering 92% voted yes to suspending the ...

As expected, with the strike almost over I’ve been getting a lot of email questions. I thought they would all be about the deal points, wh...

Marching in the wind at 20th and being sprayed by the fountain along Pico for three hours a day. Incessant honking. It was like driving in ...

Back from the big general WGA membership meeting to discuss the proposed new contract. It was held at the Shrine auditorium, which was the...

How far has romantic comedy sunk? To what depths has this once noble genre of films reached? Once we had great leading men. Charming, funny,...

Saturday night is the big Writers Guild members meeting to hear and discuss the latest proposal. Despite what you hear, the strike isn't...

Back from Chicago where I guest lectured in my daughter Annie’s writing class at Northwestern. Getting there was no problem. Arrived on t...

Hello again from Chicago where I'm snowed in. But at least I'm not flying on United. It seems they've has added a delightful ne...

Hello from Chicago where's there's supposed to be a big snowstorm. Thanks for the great response to yesterday's post. And ...

The exteriors of MASH were shot at the Malibu Creek State Park. We called it “the ranch”. It’s about thirty miles from the 20th Century ...

With Super Tuesday almost here I’m getting three calls an hour from my “ close personal friends ” Ed Begeley Jr. and Sally Field pimping som...

There is cautious optimism that the WGA strike may soon be resolved. Supposedly, both sides have agreed in principle to the deal but now mus...

This is my Superbowl tradition -- to present the "Lost scene of CHEERS". My partner, David Isaacs and I wrote it, it was seen b...

With Super Tuesday days away we in Los Angeles are getting bombarded by political commercials for various propositions. Several of them inv...

So that the Superbowl commercials don't have to all run back-to-back they have this football game to show in between them. Here's a ...

Fox’s news release promised their pre-game coverage would “ mix the safety blitz with Hollywood glitz. ” So right away you know you’re in ...

Several big US and Canadian cities have LEARNING ANNEXES. These are adult education classes that vary from being very worthwhile to some tha...

My favorite show, LOST returns this week. It’s people stranded on a tropical island without Jeff Probst saying, “Wanna know what you’re pl...

I’ve been fortunate to work on some shows that are still being shown today. MASH in particular has stood the test of time (granted you have...