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 asked my agent to ask a former agent once removed, Michael Ovitz, if I could do a series of large format photographs of the interior of the old CAA building at Wilshire and little Santa Monica – Ovitz’s House of Pei.  The new breed CAA had vacated the dump for Century City and the building stood empty... for a long time.  My intention in photographing the building: I hoped to capture a few ghosts and auras of my own Hollywood past.  And those of everybody else who toiled to make...