• Kirk Douglas Rewrites Movie History in ‘I Am Spartacus!’

    In Kirk Douglas' new memoir "I Am Spartacus!", the actor recasts his role in the blacklist-busting production

  • On the ‘Ground Floor’ at UTA’s 5th Floor

    In the entertainment industry for the long haul? You had better be nice to the person who answers the phone. More specifically, if you are calling someone at United Talent Agency, the person you are speaking with may be the person you are trying to reach very soon. At UTA, the long road to agent…

  • ‘Change Agents’: the New Web-Series Gurus

    Once you came to Hollywood with what you hoped was a great original screenplay under your arm and you could make things happen in the business. Now it helps to already have made that film … complete with dedicated website, blog, Facebook/Myspace pages, key word, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and email strategy, even perhaps a…

  • Hollywood 4.0: Coming Soon to a Browser Near You

    Very soon, all computers will be easily connected to big home LCD TV screens,. And everybody is going to be downloading entertainment content from the internet. Who will they download from? How will they pay for it? Will they pay for it? Enter Adam Fisk’s creation, Little Shoot. It is unlike most other peer to…

  • Vintage Ovitz

    Turning intermittently from screenwriting, teaching screenwriting and photographing permutations of writing, its process, its physical and emotional results, I decided to start a side project — a series of photographs of the power centers of Hollywood, past, present, future as the digital age changes everything in greater and greater leaps.   For that purpose, I…