It would have been soooo easy to do it wrong. Soooo easy to just make it an exercise, a novelty, a curiosity piece. But THE ARTIST manag...

Yesterday’s post on which spec script to write has generated a number of good questions and comments so I thought I’d serve ‘em while they’...

This is a common question and an answer that changes almost daily. But as of this moment these are my thoughts regarding specs for sitcoms....

Of those that remember a movie my partner David Isaacs and I wrote, VOLUNTE ERS, the scene most recall is the “what is time again?” scene. ...

And I have the video to prove it! CBS is always revamping its morning show. (They're doing it yet again.) Well, in 1973 someone got ...

Or at least I was in 1984.  Taking time out from writing on CHEERS during the week to do a weekend shift playing adult-contemporary hits on ...

Ready for some Friday Questions? Bowling Joe gets us going with a Woody Allen query.  ( Lot of great comments about Woody re yesterday...

I’d hate to be a movie critic. You have to spend hours and hours watching awful movies and you can’t leave. On your death bed when you ...

The conceit in MODERN FAMILY is that everything is being filmed for a documentary. So I thought, imagine if some of the cameramen got toget...

My final thoughts on New Year's weekend: Your choices for watching the ball drop in Times Square were three variations of painful. ...

Churning out top quality entertainment is a tireless undertaking, one that requires sacrifice, dedication, and total commitment. If you’re ...

Happy New Year even though we don't celebrate it until tomorrow.  In the meantime, here’s a meme that’s going around the screenwriters...

Natalie Portman, Ty Burrell, Lady Gaga, Lady Antebellum, THE BOOK OF MORMON, the Green Bay Packers, Norbert Leo Butz, Melanie Amaro, BRIDESM...

How do you know it's the end of the year?  Because a cable provider is threatening to drop a popular channel or two.  This time the feud...

For some reason all the Friday Questions today come from people whose names begin with C. It would be really eerie if I hadn't just hand...

This was a particularly good one for a non-election year.  But with Herman Cain, Kim Kardashian, Michele Bachmann, and Joe Biden around, how...

Since every magazine, radio station, and blog seem to do their year-end retrospective this week,  here's mine: Crazy Charlie Sheen made...

Instead of taking a sleigh to grandma’s house or making snowmen or handing out candy canes I went to action movies. Saw both SHERLOCK HOLM...

So this is Christmas celebration day – as opposed to celebrating Christmas on Christmas day. The real reason for this of course is to sq...