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To many of my more impassioned followers, today is Way Better Than Good Friday.  Because at long last a particular independent movie that’s been on their radar since last fall’s Toronto Independent Film Festival finally hits the theaters and they’ve already secured tickets to a showing this weekend–not that it would have been impossible to

Yet another old-fashioned media bacchanal is going on this week in Las Vegas, in this case the gathering of the National Association of Theatre Owners, pretty much the only worthwhile use of the acronym NATO these days.  To say that there’s more than a little concern that their fate may be headed in the same

I needed some warmth last night and I was fresh out of chicken broth.  So I binged a few episodes of what was getting an awful lot of positive critical reviews, the just-dropped MID-CENTURY MODERN on Hulu.  It’s gotten quite a bit of attention from folks like me that lament the near-passing of the traditional

I’ve always been far more fascinated with the “whys” of research versus the “whats”.  While I fully concede that in an industry where the bottom line IS the one with the “$” sign, the value of knowing what the underlying reasons for those results more likely are is eminently greater than merely being able to

This weekend is yet another personal milestone for me, one I honestly never thought I would reach and of late prayed nearly every chance I got that it would not come to pass.  It’s the 40th anniversary of my relocation to Los Angeles.  Whee. I’ll confess that the last weekend of 1985 was perhaps the

If you’re looking for positivity and good cheer this morning, I’d suggest you stop reading right now.  Having an overdrawn bank account and being threatened with losing the one job you’ve been able to have gotten, and one of the few I was even allowed the chance to interview for, in what is now more

Like so many who have spent their lives around creatives, especially those of us fortunate enough to have actually been employed by a few, I looked forward to Wednesday’s dropping of the first two episodes of THE STUDIO, a spot-on satire from the fertile minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.  I’m an unapologetic fan

The news that CBS’ AFTER MIDNIGHT was coming to an abrupt end in June after a mere two years took me and others by surprise; after all, we had heard little about any disenchantment with ratings or cost from either the network or its affiliates.  It was especially surprising  to moi considering when it was