Your agent questions, my answers

I thought I’d follow up on yesterday’s post about CAA vs UTA. Got a number of questions about Hollywood agencies.  Here are my answers:Matt asked: "Outraged CAA executives call this a “lawless midnight raid.” Uh… isn’t that how they started?...

CAA vs. UTA -- Hollywood's REAL game of thrones

The town is abuzz with the juicy story that many top agents have fled CAA for UTA, taking with them somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 clients.The first thing ANYONE in Hollywood does when he hears such news is say, “How does this affect ME?” In...

Opening Day

For baseball fans, this is the greatest day of the year. OPENING DAY – when hope burns eternal, even for the Phillies. It's especially meaningful this year.  After such a harsh winter in the Midwest and East, baseball means spring is here in...

What Easter means to me

Easter is not one of my big holidays. I’ve never gone to the Hollywood Bowl for the Sunrise Service. The closest I’ve come was the Universal Amphitheater for a production of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR. In grade school we used to paint hardboiled eggs....

One of the great high school reunion pranks ever

This ties in with two posts from earlier this week -- my April Fool's joke and the B100 reunion.    One of my USC students, Andrea Wachner, pulled an inspired prank.  She hired a stripper to pose as her for her 10 year high school...

Good Friday Questions

Here are Good Friday Questions.Dan Ball starts us off: After your epic tirade against ONE BIG HAPPY, how pissed and/or disillusioned are you that TV comedies haven't evolved more in the years since MASH, CHEERS, and FRASIER? I know a lot of show business...