Mark Stone is the Hollywood and television reporter for kelowna.com, the fastest growing media organization in British Columbia. Follow his daily take on the world of celebrity with Celebrity Sizzle. ...
Ester Goldberg is the International Glamourpuss of all media. Loved by young and old, Jewish and Gentile, black, white, brown and in-between, all love Ester's irreverent take on life and her positive ...
A veteran of the video and entertainment industry with more than 25 years experience, Mitch Lowe was named CEO of Redbox in 2005 and president in April 2009. Widely credited for the development of the...
Michael Lee is a novel writer, blogger and freelance journalist living in L.A. He's been a judge for the prestigious PAGE Awards and blogs about his two biggest passions, screenwriting and food, at Sc...
Flackback will explore the art and artifice of entertainment PR. The author has 25 years' corporate experience and has finessed everything from a celebrity's drunken surprise marriage to his bes...
Richard Stellar grew up in the motion picture industry as the son of a very colorful and respected executive secretary at MGM Studios, who is now a resident of the Motion Picture Home Long Term Care C...
Valery Satterwhite is a mentor and coach who teaches people to tap into their inner power authentically so that they can get out of their own way and successfully invest themselves in their creative e...
Naomi Serviss has covered Broadway, celebrities, lavish resorts and high-end spas. After many years in New York, she is now based in Tucson, Arizona, still hooked on Hollywood, the Great W...
Mali Perl lives on the East Coast but her mind is always on Hollywood time. She enjoys A-listers, G6 travel, VIP treatment, Us Weekly and having a security detail. Her pet peeves include actors with...
David Comfort is the author of three popular Simon & Schuster titles, and the recipient of numerous literary awards. His latest title from Citadel/Kensington, "The Rock and Roll Book of the D...
Adam Rifkin is a writer/director/producer/actor/author whose eclectic career ranges from broad family comedies to cult classics to dark and gritty urban dramas. As a studio writer, Rifkin is known for...
Andrew Breitbart runs the news portals Breitbart.com and Breitbart.tv. His latest endeavor, Big Hollywood, is a group blog off of Breitbart.com on Hollywood and politics from the center/right pe...
Anthony E. Zuiker is the creator of the hugely successful "CSI" franchise, which now includes "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "CSI: Miami" and "CSI: New York."...
Aviva Kempner investigates non-stereotypical images of Jews in history and focuses on the lesser known stories of Jewish heroes. She was the screenwriter, director and producer of "The Life and T...
Actor, writer and commentator Ben Stein repeated the now iconic words, "Bueller ... Bueller ... " in John Hughes' 1986 film, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
When he's not writing movies for DVD, pulp fiction and new media, Bill Cunningham is the Director of Marketing for Firebrain Inc., where he creates marketing campaigns for movies, books, gourmet food...
Bob Beitcher, most recently president and CEO of Panavision, Inc., and co-chairman of MacAndrews & Forbes Media Group, has been a senior executive in the entertainment and media industry for more than...
Comedian Bobby Collins has starred in his own Showtime specials and has hosted VH1's "Stand-Up Spotlight." He has also opened for Cher, Dolly Parton, Julio Iglesias and Tony Bennett. Collins...
Brad Bose is a personal trainer representing clients from soccer players to movie stars to members of the Los Angeles Lakers. He earned a PhD in physiology from the University of Stockholm and went on...
Brian Riordan is president and founder Levels Audio in Hollywood. His latest projects have been “American Idol,” “Flight of the Conchords,” “So You Think You Can Dance&rd...
Bruna Papandrea was president of Michael London’s Groundswell Productions for three years. She was executive producer of Gus Van Sant’s acclaimed "Milk," Rawson Marshall Th...
Carl Capotorto has been a playwright, screenwriter, and actor for more than 20 years. He made his acting debut in the cult classic "Five Corners"; performed principal roles in &quo...
Charles Taylor writes about books, movies and politics for a variety of publications including the New York Times, Dissent and the Nation. He lives in Brooklyn.
Chuck Braverman has been producing and directing documentaries for 30 years. He is well known for his fast cut “kinestasis” montage films, including the classic three-minute history of the...
Dan Jinks and his producing partner Bruce Cohen produced "Milk," directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Penn, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Harvey Milk, and "American Beauty...
In 2002, Quentin Tarantino contacted David Carradine and asked him to be in his new film, “Kill Bill.” The director had been working on the film for a year, and had been wooing Warren Beat...
David Comfort is the author of three popular Simon & Schuster titles, and the recipient of numerous literary awards. His latest title from Citadel/Kensington, "The Rock and Roll Book of the D...
Iranian-American David Diaan is a multi-hyphenate actor, writer, director, producer, who can be last seen in the feature film “The Stoning of Soraya M.,” which premiered at the 2009 ...
Academy Award-nominated producer David T. Friendly is a 20-year veteran of the film business and one of Hollywood's most prolific producers. His movies have grossed over a billion dollars worldwide.&n...
Dea Lawrence is a seasoned senior executive in the online industry specializing in sales and marketing. Currently she is responsible for the management and expansion of PointRoll’s West Coast sa...
Dean Butler is a producer of documentary content for broadcast, internet and DVD distribution. He is also an actor, best known for his work on the classic family drama, "Little House on the Prair...
Desson Thomson was a film critic for the Washington Post for 21 years. Since leaving the Post in May 2008, he has become a freelance writer, a pop-cultural commentator on NPR's "Weekend Edition,&...
From Presidential politics, celebrity culture & Hollywood, microeconomics,rock 'n' roll, the NoBrow tabloid obsessions of modern America & a touch ofeverything else in-between, Dominic Patten ...
Don Hardy is an independent documentary filmmaker in northern California. He and his filmmaking partner Dana Nachman released their first film, "Witch Hunt," this year. They're currently in ...
Douglas Preston is a best-selling author; his latest book is "The Monster of Florence," about Italy's answer to Jack the Ripper, written with Mario Spezi.
Eric Hughes is an actor and writer whose credits include AGAINST ALL ODDS and WHITE NIGHTS. His web site, screenrights.net, contains documents which impact the lives of writers and actors, but which h...
Eric Kohn is a freelance film journalist and critic whose work regularly appears in indieWIRE, New York Press and several other outlets. His thoughts on new media and film can be found at Screen Rush.
Eric Taub has covered the intersection of technology and entertainment for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications for more than 15 years. A former pay TV analyst for Paul Ka...
Ester Goldberg is the International Glamourpuss of all media. Loved by young and old, Jewish and Gentile, black, white, brown and in-between, all love Ester's irreverent take on life and her positive ...
Flackback will explore the art and artifice of entertainment PR. The author has 25 years' corporate experience and has finessed everything from a celebrity's drunken surprise marriage to his bes...
Frank Swertlow is an awarding-winning journalist who covered a 2002 civil trial against Michael Jackson and the 2005 criminal trial, both for People magazine. He is the co-author of "We, the Jury...
Fred Silberberg is a Los Angeles attorney who has been specializing in family law for more than 20 years. For more than 10 years, he has authored an often controversial and oft- quoted opinion column ...
Gene Rosow, aka DirtDoctorG, is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and feature film producer who brings it all home to planet Earth and gets us all down in the dirt.
Gotham Chopra is a journalist, entrepreneur, and Boston Sports fan. He is the founder of Liquid Comics (formerly Virgin Comics) and frequent commentator on everything from suicide bombers to strippers...
Holly Goldberg Sloan is a writer-director of family films. She wrote "Angels in the Outfield," "Made in America," "The Big Green" and "The Crocodile Hunter: Collisio...
Howard Rosenberg is the Pulitzer Prize-winning former television critic for the Los Angeles Times, where his column was distributed nationally and read by decision makers in the media for 25 years. He...
Jacquie Jordan is a two-time Emmy-nominated television producer, author of “Get on TV!” and founder of Jacquie Jordan Inc./TVGuestpert.com. TVGuestpert.com is a media development company s...
James Sims got his start in news while serving as a radio and television reporter in the U.S. Air Force. After a few years in South Korea he returned to Los Angeles where he worked at "Entertainm...
Jeff Dowd is a Los Angeles-based writer/producer, producer’s representative and a nationally recognized authority on marketing, distribution and exhibition. He is a political activist and a freq...
Jeff Gross is a writer and director who collaborated with Roman Polanski on the writing of “Frantic” and “Bitter Moon.” He was in Cannes with a half-dozen projects, including a...
Jim Dorey is the creator and editor of MarketSaw.com, a site focused on 3D movies and technology. Jim has been featured in many media outlets such as Wired, Slate and Computer Graphics World, he...
Documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger’s body of work includes “Paradise Lost,” Brother’s Keeper” and “Some Kind of Monster,” featuring Metallica. His latest is ...
John Marmaduke has been president and CEO of Hastings Entertainment Inc. since 1976. He also serves on the board of directors of the Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association. Hastings is a mult...
John Ridley is an Emmy Award-winning commentator and writer for Esquire and Time magazines as well as a contributor to CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and NPR. He is the author of seven published novels and nume...
John W. Kennedy is the founder of JWKMedia, a television/movie script development company, and a development manager/consultant at illumination productions, the production company run by forme...
Jonathan Alcorn is an editorial photographer based in Los Angeles with an emphasis on News and Hollywood, blogging his adventures at jonathanalcorn.blogspot.com. His successful freelancer career inclu...
Jonathan Reiner is an Emmy-winning writer/producer specializing in reality programming. Several of his concepts have been optioned by high-profile networks and production companies, and he is currentl...
Juan Carlos Piñeiro Escoriaza is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Pure West, a film, web and interactive company, and director and editor of "Second Skin," a documentary on v...
Longtime publicist Julian Myers' favorite day was waking Marilyn Monroe for an appearance on a ship in San Pedro, in front of 3,000 soldiers. A former Fox publicist, he still has his own firm, Julian ...
Kathy currently works as an independent writer-producer. She is a graduate of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s MFA in Screenwriting program. In addition to penning multiple feature-...
Ken Scherer is Chief Executive Officer of the Motion Picture & Television Fund Foundation, a non-profit organization offering health and charitable services to Southern California’s entertai...
Kent Youngblood is a freelancer who writes about the business side of entertainment. With over 20 years of producing experience on some of television’s most acclaimed series, Youngblood has...
Documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick has made a career of taking on uncomfortable topics, from sexual abuse in the Catholic Church to the secret world of movie ratings. In his latest film, “Outrage,...
Laura Clark is the editor of L.A. Story, which chronicles her adventures in the city with toddler in tow. She's also a contributing writer at Los Angeles Moms Blog and has worked as an editor at Woman...
Laura Ziskin is one of Hollywood’s leading independent producers and studio executives. This year, she produced the third chapter in the "Spider-Man" film series. In 200...
A civic activist, Leslie Dutton is a twice nominated Emmy Award-winning producer-host. In 2002, she received a Southern California Emmy Award for a public affairs series (Host and Producer) from the A...
Lionel Chetwynd's over 40 feature and long-form television credits and 21 documentaries have received both Oscar and Emmy nominations, six Writers Guild of America nominations, including an award, the...
Lisa Vinton, sharing her parenting skills with TV viewers this spring in the new CMT original reality series, "World’s Strictest Parents," is President/CEO and founder of Services for ...
Mali Perl lives on the East Coast but her mind is always on Hollywood time. She enjoys A-listers, G6 travel, VIP treatment, Us Weekly and having a security detail. Her pet peeves include actors with...
Marc Clebanoff, head of Odyssey Motion Pictures, made his feature directorial debut with "Unspoken," which earned Best Screenplay and Best Feature Film nominations at various festivals throu...
Marc Flanagan is a television writer/producer. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Marc has written and produced "The Tracey Ullman Show," "Grace Under Fire," "High Societ...
Mark Linfield is the co-director of Disneynature's "Earth," which is being released on Earth Day (April 22). He also has produced "Capuchins: The Monkey Puzzle" and two episodes of...
Mark Stone is the Hollywood and television reporter for kelowna.com, the fastest growing media organization in British Columbia. Follow his daily take on the world of celebrity with Celebrity Sizzle. ...
Matt Brown has been producing and directing short films for the past two decades while working as a post-production technical consultant by day. A master of short film, Matt learned his craft by first...
Matthew Heller has written about the entertainment industry as a Reuters correspondent in Los Angeles and as a contributor to, among others, the Los Angeles Times Magazine and the Hollywood Reporter. ...
For over 25-years, Merv Bloch has been a dominant, creative force in the field of motion picture advertising and has been acclaimed for many of his award-winning ad campaigns, posters and trailers. In...
Michael Adams is an editor with the international movie magazine Empire and his writing has also appeared in Rolling Stone, FHM, Interview, Men's Style, Top Gear and Jobson's Mining Year Book. His upc...
Michael Ayers is a New York-based journalist. He writes regularly for Billboard, the Village Voice and AOL, and his work has been featured in Reuters, New York magazine, Stop Smiling and Filter, among...
Michael Janofsky is a veteran journalist who spent 24 years at The New York Times, where he was a Washington and national correspondent .Now an L.A.-based writer, he remains a big fan of politics, mov...
Michael Kokernak has written about the disruption of the traditional television business model for virtually every industry trade magazine since 1998. He is also an inventor and the company he founded...
Michael Lee is a novel writer, blogger and freelance journalist living in L.A. He's been a judge for the prestigious PAGE Awards and blogs about his two biggest passions, screenwriting and food, at Sc...
Mike Binder began his career as a stand up comedian in Detroit. He is currently working on a comedy pilot for the Fox network and studio called 'Two Dollar Beer,' as well as a new soon to be reve...
Mike Medavoy and Nathan Gardels are co-authors of “American Idol After Iraq: Competing for Hearts and Minds in the Global Media Age,” which willbe be out in April/May.
Mitch Bainwol is Chairman & CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. Its members are the leading record companies t...
A veteran of the video and entertainment industry with more than 25 years experience, Mitch Lowe was named CEO of Redbox in 2005 and president in April 2009. Widely credited for the development of the...
Born and raised in Chicago, Mitch Paradise is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West, and United Teachers of Los Angeles. He has worked in both television and film, wrote and produced "Bl...
Naomi Serviss has covered Broadway, celebrities, lavish resorts and high-end spas. After many years in New York, she is now based in Tucson, Arizona, still hooked on Hollywood, the Great W...
"Few former child stars can claim to have overwhelmed their childhood success as thoroughly as Paul Petersen who literally "grew up" in front of America as "Jeff" on "The Donna Reed Show" (1958-1966)....
Peter Broderick is president of Paradigm Consulting. My goal is to create a living document that evolves with the latest hybrid experiences and empowers filmmakers to realize their full potential. Vis...
A truly multi-faceted musician, Peter Himmelman is a critically lauded rock troubadour, a Grammy nominated creator of children’s music, and an Emmy nominated film and television composer.
Peter McAlevey is a motion-picture producer and former correspondent for Newsweek. Not only did he attend Woodstock, but knew many of the participants later as a Hollywood executive. This is ada...
After graduating from the University of Maryland, Peter Mehlman started his career as a writer for the Washington Post. He slid from print journalism to television when, from 1982 to 1984, he wr...
Peter Samuelson is president of Splashlife, Inc., which launches as a media-rich AARP for Millennials later this year. He has produced two dozen movies, including "Revenge of the Nerds,” &q...
Rafi Mohammed, Ph.D. is a pricing strategy consultant and author of pricing strategy books, "The Art of Pricing" (Crown Business, 2005) and the forthcoming "The 1% Windfall" (Harpe...
Ray Griggs is an independent producer-writer-director whose short, "Lucifer," has won awards at several film festivals. He self-financed his second outing, an independent $2 million B-...
An entertainment journalist since 1984, Ray Richmond has served variously as a television reporter, critic and columnist for Daily Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, the L.A. Daily News, the Orange Coun...
Reed Martin has taught "Film Marketing, Distribution and Exhibition" at NYU's Stern School of Business since 2003. More recently, he has served as a research associate in the Global Research Group at ...
Rich Fickle has spent over 25 years in the media industry, focusing on the launch of new technology-driven businesses in the cable, satellite and content segments. In his current role as SVP of Busine...
Richard Farrell is an author, filmmaker, teacher, journalist and adjunct
professor of English at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. His
documentary, "High on Crack Street," was air...
Richard Masur has appeared in over 80 movies during his career. He served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) from 1995 to 1999 and currently serves on the National Execu...
Richard Stellar grew up in the motion picture industry as the son of a very colorful and respected executive secretary at MGM Studios, who is now a resident of the Motion Picture Home Long Term Care C...
Rick Ellis is a journalist currently living in the Twin Cities. He has written about television and the media business for more than a decade. His reporting has been cited in Vanity Fair, The Nation, ...
Roberta Marie Munroe is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, entrepreneur, international film festival programmer, and consultant. From 2001-2006, she programmed short films at The Sundance Film Festiv...
Rod Lurie wrote and directed the widely praised Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominated political thriller "The Contender," starring Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, Gary Oldman and Christia...
Scott Feinberg is one of the film industry's most-trusted awards analysts and has one of the best track records at forecasting the Academy Awards. He wrote "The Feinberg Files" blog for the Los Angele...
Scott Macaulay is the Editor of Filmmaker Magazine and the co-president of the New York production company Forensic Films. Among his producing credits are "Raising Victor Vargas," "Gummo" and the Sund...
Scott Timberg is a Los Angeles-based culture writer who has contributed to the New York Times, GQ and Slate. For six years he was a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, where he covered music, the a...
Scott Wainess has worked in the manufacturing industry for 30 years, in technical and management positions. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from California State University, Northridge, an...
Sherry Lansing, the longtime head of Paramount Pictures who stepped down to focus full-time on philanthropy, is a founding member of Stand Up To Cancer, a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundat...
Simon Abrams writes about comics, books and movies for the Comics Journal, the L Magazine, the New York Press and Slant Magazine. Since last year, he's been obsessively keeping a film journal where he...
Soledad O'Brien is an anchor and special correspondent for CNN Worldwide. In addition to "CNN Presents: Latino in America," her recent documentary projects include "Black in America" and "Escape From ...
Soledad O'Brien is an anchor and special correspondent for CNN Worldwide. In addition to "CNN Presents: Latino in America," her recent documentary projects include "Black in America" and "Escape From ...
Sondra Lowell is the inventor of the Film Sleepy genre, movies that put the audience to sleep. Her first feature, "WebcamMurder.com," follows fictional yet unimaginative lifecasters who spen...
Stephanie Houser, CEO of Launch Flix, has a background in social media, marketing and PR, ideal for creating and promoting independent films. She blogs about "An Unbroken Chain: The Movie" a...
Steve Pond has been writing about popular culture and the entertainment industry for more than 25 years. His work has appeared in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Premi...
“Stretch” is the handle of a 25-year-old, L.A.-born driver who hasn't been cited for a single moving violation in the four years he's been behind the wheel in the most demanding limo-drivi...
Suzette Valle was recognized by Time Warner Cable as one of San Diego's 50 Best Moms. Living in San Diego with her husband and two teenagers, she is a"golf and softball mom" who blogs about ...
Ted Hope has produced over 50 films and co-founded both This Is That and Good Machine. His eye for talent is demonstrated by the feature directing careers he’s initiated, including Ang Lee&rsquo...
Ted Hope has produced more than 50 films and co-founded both This Is That and Good Machine. His eye for talent is demonstrated by the feature directing careers he’s initiated, including those of Ang...
Temp X is a writer, producer and a one-time stand-up comic toiling in underemployment. He is the self-anointed King of Hollywood and the mind behind the wildly popular (or so I'd like to think) blog, ...
The Divine Shellenator (nickname "Shelly") came from Planet Dog in search for a worthy human to keep as her pet. She now sits quietly at the feet of her human, who works long hours at the co...
Todd Holland has directed three feature films and more than 250 episodes of televison and has been honored with three Emmy Awards, five CableAce Awards, eight Emmy nominations, a DGA award and a WGA n...
Todd Leavitt was President of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences from 2002-2005. He is now a managing partner at film financing and television-packaging boutique Tulip Media.
ABOUT TOM BENEDEK:Screenwriter and photographer Tom Benedek wrote the screenplays for Cocoon, Free Willy and other films. He has written and rewritten screenplays for Robert Zemeckis, Lawrence K...
Valery Satterwhite is a mentor and coach who teaches people to tap into their inner power authentically so that they can get out of their own way and successfully invest themselves in their creative e...
Valery Satterwhite is a mentor and coach who teaches people to tap into their inner power authentically so that they can get out of their own way and successfully invest themselves in their creative e...
Zorianna Kit is a print and television journalist. She was most recently the resident film analyst for the TV Guide Network and a guest host on "Ebert & Roeper." Prior to that she ...
Adam Rifkin is a writer/director/producer/actor/author whose eclectic career ranges from broad family comedies to cult classics to dark and gritty urban dramas. As a studio writer, Rifkin is known for...
Andrew Breitbart runs the news portals Breitbart.com and Breitbart.tv. His latest endeavor, Big Hollywood, is a group blog off of Breitbart.com on Hollywood and politics from the center/right pe...
Anthony E. Zuiker is the creator of the hugely successful "CSI" franchise, which now includes "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "CSI: Miami" and "CSI: New York."...
Aviva Kempner investigates non-stereotypical images of Jews in history and focuses on the lesser known stories of Jewish heroes. She was the screenwriter, director and producer of "The Life and T...
Actor, writer and commentator Ben Stein repeated the now iconic words, "Bueller ... Bueller ... " in John Hughes' 1986 film, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
When he's not writing movies for DVD, pulp fiction and new media, Bill Cunningham is the Director of Marketing for Firebrain Inc., where he creates marketing campaigns for movies, books, gourmet food...
Bob Beitcher, most recently president and CEO of Panavision, Inc., and co-chairman of MacAndrews & Forbes Media Group, has been a senior executive in the entertainment and media industry for more than...
Comedian Bobby Collins has starred in his own Showtime specials and has hosted VH1's "Stand-Up Spotlight." He has also opened for Cher, Dolly Parton, Julio Iglesias and Tony Bennett. Collins...
Brad Bose is a personal trainer representing clients from soccer players to movie stars to members of the Los Angeles Lakers. He earned a PhD in physiology from the University of Stockholm and went on...
Brian Riordan is president and founder Levels Audio in Hollywood. His latest projects have been “American Idol,” “Flight of the Conchords,” “So You Think You Can Dance&rd...
Bruna Papandrea was president of Michael London’s Groundswell Productions for three years. She was executive producer of Gus Van Sant’s acclaimed "Milk," Rawson Marshall Th...
Carl Capotorto has been a playwright, screenwriter, and actor for more than 20 years. He made his acting debut in the cult classic "Five Corners"; performed principal roles in &quo...
Charles Taylor writes about books, movies and politics for a variety of publications including the New York Times, Dissent and the Nation. He lives in Brooklyn.
Chuck Braverman has been producing and directing documentaries for 30 years. He is well known for his fast cut “kinestasis” montage films, including the classic three-minute history of the...
Dan Jinks and his producing partner Bruce Cohen produced "Milk," directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Penn, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Harvey Milk, and "American Beauty...
In 2002, Quentin Tarantino contacted David Carradine and asked him to be in his new film, “Kill Bill.” The director had been working on the film for a year, and had been wooing Warren Beat...
David Comfort is the author of three popular Simon & Schuster titles, and the recipient of numerous literary awards. His latest title from Citadel/Kensington, "The Rock and Roll Book of the D...
Iranian-American David Diaan is a multi-hyphenate actor, writer, director, producer, who can be last seen in the feature film “The Stoning of Soraya M.,” which premiered at the 2009 ...
Academy Award-nominated producer David T. Friendly is a 20-year veteran of the film business and one of Hollywood's most prolific producers. His movies have grossed over a billion dollars worldwide.&n...
Dea Lawrence is a seasoned senior executive in the online industry specializing in sales and marketing. Currently she is responsible for the management and expansion of PointRoll’s West Coast sa...
Dean Butler is a producer of documentary content for broadcast, internet and DVD distribution. He is also an actor, best known for his work on the classic family drama, "Little House on the Prair...
Desson Thomson was a film critic for the Washington Post for 21 years. Since leaving the Post in May 2008, he has become a freelance writer, a pop-cultural commentator on NPR's "Weekend Edition,&...
From Presidential politics, celebrity culture & Hollywood, microeconomics,rock 'n' roll, the NoBrow tabloid obsessions of modern America & a touch ofeverything else in-between, Dominic Patten ...
Don Hardy is an independent documentary filmmaker in northern California. He and his filmmaking partner Dana Nachman released their first film, "Witch Hunt," this year. They're currently in ...
Douglas Preston is a best-selling author; his latest book is "The Monster of Florence," about Italy's answer to Jack the Ripper, written with Mario Spezi.
Eric Hughes is an actor and writer whose credits include AGAINST ALL ODDS and WHITE NIGHTS. His web site, screenrights.net, contains documents which impact the lives of writers and actors, but which h...
Eric Kohn is a freelance film journalist and critic whose work regularly appears in indieWIRE, New York Press and several other outlets. His thoughts on new media and film can be found at Screen Rush.
Eric Taub has covered the intersection of technology and entertainment for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications for more than 15 years. A former pay TV analyst for Paul Ka...
Ester Goldberg is the International Glamourpuss of all media. Loved by young and old, Jewish and Gentile, black, white, brown and in-between, all love Ester's irreverent take on life and her positive ...
Flackback will explore the art and artifice of entertainment PR. The author has 25 years' corporate experience and has finessed everything from a celebrity's drunken surprise marriage to his bes...
Frank Swertlow is an awarding-winning journalist who covered a 2002 civil trial against Michael Jackson and the 2005 criminal trial, both for People magazine. He is the co-author of "We, the Jury...
Fred Silberberg is a Los Angeles attorney who has been specializing in family law for more than 20 years. For more than 10 years, he has authored an often controversial and oft- quoted opinion column ...
Gene Rosow, aka DirtDoctorG, is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and feature film producer who brings it all home to planet Earth and gets us all down in the dirt.
Gotham Chopra is a journalist, entrepreneur, and Boston Sports fan. He is the founder of Liquid Comics (formerly Virgin Comics) and frequent commentator on everything from suicide bombers to strippers...
Holly Goldberg Sloan is a writer-director of family films. She wrote "Angels in the Outfield," "Made in America," "The Big Green" and "The Crocodile Hunter: Collisio...
Howard Rosenberg is the Pulitzer Prize-winning former television critic for the Los Angeles Times, where his column was distributed nationally and read by decision makers in the media for 25 years. He...
Jacquie Jordan is a two-time Emmy-nominated television producer, author of “Get on TV!” and founder of Jacquie Jordan Inc./TVGuestpert.com. TVGuestpert.com is a media development company s...
James Sims got his start in news while serving as a radio and television reporter in the U.S. Air Force. After a few years in South Korea he returned to Los Angeles where he worked at "Entertainm...
Jeff Dowd is a Los Angeles-based writer/producer, producer’s representative and a nationally recognized authority on marketing, distribution and exhibition. He is a political activist and a freq...
Jeff Gross is a writer and director who collaborated with Roman Polanski on the writing of “Frantic” and “Bitter Moon.” He was in Cannes with a half-dozen projects, including a...
Jim Dorey is the creator and editor of MarketSaw.com, a site focused on 3D movies and technology. Jim has been featured in many media outlets such as Wired, Slate and Computer Graphics World, he...
Documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger’s body of work includes “Paradise Lost,” Brother’s Keeper” and “Some Kind of Monster,” featuring Metallica. His latest is ...
John Marmaduke has been president and CEO of Hastings Entertainment Inc. since 1976. He also serves on the board of directors of the Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association. Hastings is a mult...
John Ridley is an Emmy Award-winning commentator and writer for Esquire and Time magazines as well as a contributor to CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and NPR. He is the author of seven published novels and nume...
John W. Kennedy is the founder of JWKMedia, a television/movie script development company, and a development manager/consultant at illumination productions, the production company run by forme...
Jonathan Alcorn is an editorial photographer based in Los Angeles with an emphasis on News and Hollywood, blogging his adventures at jonathanalcorn.blogspot.com. His successful freelancer career inclu...
Jonathan Reiner is an Emmy-winning writer/producer specializing in reality programming. Several of his concepts have been optioned by high-profile networks and production companies, and he is currentl...
Juan Carlos Piñeiro Escoriaza is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Pure West, a film, web and interactive company, and director and editor of "Second Skin," a documentary on v...
Longtime publicist Julian Myers' favorite day was waking Marilyn Monroe for an appearance on a ship in San Pedro, in front of 3,000 soldiers. A former Fox publicist, he still has his own firm, Julian ...
Kathy currently works as an independent writer-producer. She is a graduate of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s MFA in Screenwriting program. In addition to penning multiple feature-...
Ken Scherer is Chief Executive Officer of the Motion Picture & Television Fund Foundation, a non-profit organization offering health and charitable services to Southern California’s entertai...
Kent Youngblood is a freelancer who writes about the business side of entertainment. With over 20 years of producing experience on some of television’s most acclaimed series, Youngblood has...
Documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick has made a career of taking on uncomfortable topics, from sexual abuse in the Catholic Church to the secret world of movie ratings. In his latest film, “Outrage,...
Laura Clark is the editor of L.A. Story, which chronicles her adventures in the city with toddler in tow. She's also a contributing writer at Los Angeles Moms Blog and has worked as an editor at Woman...
Laura Ziskin is one of Hollywood’s leading independent producers and studio executives. This year, she produced the third chapter in the "Spider-Man" film series. In 200...
A civic activist, Leslie Dutton is a twice nominated Emmy Award-winning producer-host. In 2002, she received a Southern California Emmy Award for a public affairs series (Host and Producer) from the A...
Lionel Chetwynd's over 40 feature and long-form television credits and 21 documentaries have received both Oscar and Emmy nominations, six Writers Guild of America nominations, including an award, the...
Lisa Vinton, sharing her parenting skills with TV viewers this spring in the new CMT original reality series, "World’s Strictest Parents," is President/CEO and founder of Services for ...
Mali Perl lives on the East Coast but her mind is always on Hollywood time. She enjoys A-listers, G6 travel, VIP treatment, Us Weekly and having a security detail. Her pet peeves include actors with...
Marc Clebanoff, head of Odyssey Motion Pictures, made his feature directorial debut with "Unspoken," which earned Best Screenplay and Best Feature Film nominations at various festivals throu...
Marc Flanagan is a television writer/producer. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Marc has written and produced "The Tracey Ullman Show," "Grace Under Fire," "High Societ...
Mark Linfield is the co-director of Disneynature's "Earth," which is being released on Earth Day (April 22). He also has produced "Capuchins: The Monkey Puzzle" and two episodes of...
Mark Stone is the Hollywood and television reporter for kelowna.com, the fastest growing media organization in British Columbia. Follow his daily take on the world of celebrity with Celebrity Sizzle. ...
Matt Brown has been producing and directing short films for the past two decades while working as a post-production technical consultant by day. A master of short film, Matt learned his craft by first...
Matthew Heller has written about the entertainment industry as a Reuters correspondent in Los Angeles and as a contributor to, among others, the Los Angeles Times Magazine and the Hollywood Reporter. ...
For over 25-years, Merv Bloch has been a dominant, creative force in the field of motion picture advertising and has been acclaimed for many of his award-winning ad campaigns, posters and trailers. In...
Michael Adams is an editor with the international movie magazine Empire and his writing has also appeared in Rolling Stone, FHM, Interview, Men's Style, Top Gear and Jobson's Mining Year Book. His upc...
Michael Ayers is a New York-based journalist. He writes regularly for Billboard, the Village Voice and AOL, and his work has been featured in Reuters, New York magazine, Stop Smiling and Filter, among...
Michael Janofsky is a veteran journalist who spent 24 years at The New York Times, where he was a Washington and national correspondent .Now an L.A.-based writer, he remains a big fan of politics, mov...
Michael Kokernak has written about the disruption of the traditional television business model for virtually every industry trade magazine since 1998. He is also an inventor and the company he founded...
Michael Lee is a novel writer, blogger and freelance journalist living in L.A. He's been a judge for the prestigious PAGE Awards and blogs about his two biggest passions, screenwriting and food, at Sc...
Mike Binder began his career as a stand up comedian in Detroit. He is currently working on a comedy pilot for the Fox network and studio called 'Two Dollar Beer,' as well as a new soon to be reve...
Mike Medavoy and Nathan Gardels are co-authors of “American Idol After Iraq: Competing for Hearts and Minds in the Global Media Age,” which willbe be out in April/May.
Mitch Bainwol is Chairman & CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. Its members are the leading record companies t...
A veteran of the video and entertainment industry with more than 25 years experience, Mitch Lowe was named CEO of Redbox in 2005 and president in April 2009. Widely credited for the development of the...
Born and raised in Chicago, Mitch Paradise is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West, and United Teachers of Los Angeles. He has worked in both television and film, wrote and produced "Bl...
Naomi Serviss has covered Broadway, celebrities, lavish resorts and high-end spas. After many years in New York, she is now based in Tucson, Arizona, still hooked on Hollywood, the Great W...
"Few former child stars can claim to have overwhelmed their childhood success as thoroughly as Paul Petersen who literally "grew up" in front of America as "Jeff" on "The Donna Reed Show" (1958-1966)....
Peter Broderick is president of Paradigm Consulting. My goal is to create a living document that evolves with the latest hybrid experiences and empowers filmmakers to realize their full potential. Vis...
A truly multi-faceted musician, Peter Himmelman is a critically lauded rock troubadour, a Grammy nominated creator of children’s music, and an Emmy nominated film and television composer.
Peter McAlevey is a motion-picture producer and former correspondent for Newsweek. Not only did he attend Woodstock, but knew many of the participants later as a Hollywood executive. This is ada...
After graduating from the University of Maryland, Peter Mehlman started his career as a writer for the Washington Post. He slid from print journalism to television when, from 1982 to 1984, he wr...
Peter Samuelson is president of Splashlife, Inc., which launches as a media-rich AARP for Millennials later this year. He has produced two dozen movies, including "Revenge of the Nerds,” &q...
Rafi Mohammed, Ph.D. is a pricing strategy consultant and author of pricing strategy books, "The Art of Pricing" (Crown Business, 2005) and the forthcoming "The 1% Windfall" (Harpe...
Ray Griggs is an independent producer-writer-director whose short, "Lucifer," has won awards at several film festivals. He self-financed his second outing, an independent $2 million B-...
An entertainment journalist since 1984, Ray Richmond has served variously as a television reporter, critic and columnist for Daily Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, the L.A. Daily News, the Orange Coun...
Reed Martin has taught "Film Marketing, Distribution and Exhibition" at NYU's Stern School of Business since 2003. More recently, he has served as a research associate in the Global Research Group at ...
Rich Fickle has spent over 25 years in the media industry, focusing on the launch of new technology-driven businesses in the cable, satellite and content segments. In his current role as SVP of Busine...
Richard Farrell is an author, filmmaker, teacher, journalist and adjunct
professor of English at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. His
documentary, "High on Crack Street," was air...
Richard Masur has appeared in over 80 movies during his career. He served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) from 1995 to 1999 and currently serves on the National Execu...
Richard Stellar grew up in the motion picture industry as the son of a very colorful and respected executive secretary at MGM Studios, who is now a resident of the Motion Picture Home Long Term Care C...
Rick Ellis is a journalist currently living in the Twin Cities. He has written about television and the media business for more than a decade. His reporting has been cited in Vanity Fair, The Nation, ...
Roberta Marie Munroe is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, entrepreneur, international film festival programmer, and consultant. From 2001-2006, she programmed short films at The Sundance Film Festiv...
Rod Lurie wrote and directed the widely praised Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominated political thriller "The Contender," starring Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, Gary Oldman and Christia...
Scott Feinberg is one of the film industry's most-trusted awards analysts and has one of the best track records at forecasting the Academy Awards. He wrote "The Feinberg Files" blog for the Los Angele...
Scott Macaulay is the Editor of Filmmaker Magazine and the co-president of the New York production company Forensic Films. Among his producing credits are "Raising Victor Vargas," "Gummo" and the Sund...
Scott Timberg is a Los Angeles-based culture writer who has contributed to the New York Times, GQ and Slate. For six years he was a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, where he covered music, the a...
Scott Wainess has worked in the manufacturing industry for 30 years, in technical and management positions. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from California State University, Northridge, an...
Sherry Lansing, the longtime head of Paramount Pictures who stepped down to focus full-time on philanthropy, is a founding member of Stand Up To Cancer, a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundat...
Simon Abrams writes about comics, books and movies for the Comics Journal, the L Magazine, the New York Press and Slant Magazine. Since last year, he's been obsessively keeping a film journal where he...
Soledad O'Brien is an anchor and special correspondent for CNN Worldwide. In addition to "CNN Presents: Latino in America," her recent documentary projects include "Black in America" and "Escape From ...
Soledad O'Brien is an anchor and special correspondent for CNN Worldwide. In addition to "CNN Presents: Latino in America," her recent documentary projects include "Black in America" and "Escape From ...
Sondra Lowell is the inventor of the Film Sleepy genre, movies that put the audience to sleep. Her first feature, "WebcamMurder.com," follows fictional yet unimaginative lifecasters who spen...
Stephanie Houser, CEO of Launch Flix, has a background in social media, marketing and PR, ideal for creating and promoting independent films. She blogs about "An Unbroken Chain: The Movie" a...
Steve Pond has been writing about popular culture and the entertainment industry for more than 25 years. His work has appeared in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Premi...
“Stretch” is the handle of a 25-year-old, L.A.-born driver who hasn't been cited for a single moving violation in the four years he's been behind the wheel in the most demanding limo-drivi...
Suzette Valle was recognized by Time Warner Cable as one of San Diego's 50 Best Moms. Living in San Diego with her husband and two teenagers, she is a"golf and softball mom" who blogs about ...
Ted Hope has produced over 50 films and co-founded both This Is That and Good Machine. His eye for talent is demonstrated by the feature directing careers he’s initiated, including Ang Lee&rsquo...
Ted Hope has produced more than 50 films and co-founded both This Is That and Good Machine. His eye for talent is demonstrated by the feature directing careers he’s initiated, including those of Ang...
Temp X is a writer, producer and a one-time stand-up comic toiling in underemployment. He is the self-anointed King of Hollywood and the mind behind the wildly popular (or so I'd like to think) blog, ...
The Divine Shellenator (nickname "Shelly") came from Planet Dog in search for a worthy human to keep as her pet. She now sits quietly at the feet of her human, who works long hours at the co...
Todd Holland has directed three feature films and more than 250 episodes of televison and has been honored with three Emmy Awards, five CableAce Awards, eight Emmy nominations, a DGA award and a WGA n...
Todd Leavitt was President of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences from 2002-2005. He is now a managing partner at film financing and television-packaging boutique Tulip Media.
ABOUT TOM BENEDEK:Screenwriter and photographer Tom Benedek wrote the screenplays for Cocoon, Free Willy and other films. He has written and rewritten screenplays for Robert Zemeckis, Lawrence K...
Valery Satterwhite is a mentor and coach who teaches people to tap into their inner power authentically so that they can get out of their own way and successfully invest themselves in their creative e...
Valery Satterwhite is a mentor and coach who teaches people to tap into their inner power authentically so that they can get out of their own way and successfully invest themselves in their creative e...
Zorianna Kit is a print and television journalist. She was most recently the resident film analyst for the TV Guide Network and a guest host on "Ebert & Roeper." Prior to that she ...