Peter Mehlman
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No Shot for You! Former ‘Seinfeld’ Writer on Living Just Outside of Vaccine Eligibility (Guest Blog)
Former “Seinfeld” writer Peter Mehlman opines about being one year shy of being vaccine-eligible
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Peter Mehlman: Being Me Is a Full-Time Job (Exclusive Excerpt)
“I haven’t told this story to anyone, not even God”
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That Old Adage ‘Write What You Know’? – Hogwash!
Guest Blog: Shakespeare wasn’t a Danish Prince, Updike never ran a Toyota dealership, William Goldman didn’t rob banks or move to Bolivia …
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Sorry, It’s Just Not True That ‘One Writer Fits All’
In bouncing between movies, novels and sitcoms, there is some crossover in the required skill sets, but the bulges that don’t intersect lead lots of writers to their real-estate licenses
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A Once and Not-Future TV Writer’s Ode to Joy
Guest Blog: In this re-entry into network TV, no matter where I looked — ESE, WSW NNE, SSW — the future was clouded with frigid conference calls, coded notes, oppressive tact and congestive collaboration
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‘Arthur’ Remake Will Be a Desecration
HOLLYBLOG: The original’s greatest gift was a boatload of brilliant one-line zingers
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Stranger in a Strange Google Land
About 650,000 people have watched me interview athletes on YouTube since Aug. 9. Is that a high number of people? A low number of people? No idea. The interviews are produced by BermanBraun which has a deal with Google who, unbeknownst to me, bought YouTube. There were lots of preliminary meetings and conference calls…
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L.A.’s No Place to Experience the Depression
For people who grew up hearing tales of the Great Depression over dinner, the current economic crisis is pretty disappointing. With things this bad, you expect to look out your window and see that the whole world is in black and white. It’s not. Not here in hi-def Santa Monica: Lilac yoga mats still bounce…
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Seven Phrases That Are Killing Our Economy
The following calculation, arrived at with no calculation, really sounds accurate: 79.429 percent of America’s Gross Domestic Product consists of economic theory. In lieu of manufacturing actual products, America now churns out theories on why our economic pituitary gland conked out and what to do about it. Unfortunately, all the theories come from way on…
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Hugh Hefner’s Hollywood Love Lessons
“Everything I learned about love, I learned from the movies.” — Hugh Hefner in the Los Angeles Times, January 4, 2009 Long before I created Playboy Magazine, my cinematic education in love began with Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece “Potemkin.” During the epic Odessa Steps scene as that poor mother lost hold of her baby stroller, it…
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Why They Hated ‘Seinfeld’
I was watching something on TV recently (can’t remember what) (can never remember what) when a promo came on for a show called “Momma’s Boy” dealing with several (possibly) junior high school-educated girls in their 20s competing to date a guy who (something tells me) has a job that pays a (presumably well-deserved unliveable) salary…