The central character in Fin Kennedy's How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found might be a dead man. If nothing else, he's the walking dead. Asleep in a life that probably seemed like a dream in his early youth. A dream that has now become an inescapable nightmare. His...

Read the headline. That's it. That's the extent of my advice to parents, divorced or otherwise, based on my nine years of experience as a divorced father. You can stop reading now.

My daughter was 5, my son was almost 4 when their mother and I split. It was, without...

Recently during a lively discussion in the comments section of an article on the Huffington Post, one commentator said (paraphrasing) that NPR is perceived to have a liberal bias because "they're reality based" and reality has a liberal bias. I had one of those moments when something is explained so...

I don't know any climate scientists personally, but if I did I'd ask him or her a question I've had ever since I first heard about global warming. My question is this: Assuming that something like the Gaia Theory is correct, what are the chances that our...

With the Oscars in the offing it's become much more of a challenge for those of us who feel we must at least have seen all the Best Picture noms before the big day now that there are ten instead of just five. Many of us make sure we see...

When I wrote about child support recently I knew I was touching on a hot topic, but I was still surprised at the high emotional level of conversation in the comments that followed. To be clear, I wasn't advocating the implementation of some kind of draconian accountability system...

As someone who has paid monthly child support for the past 8+ years, I often wonder how many exes who receive monthly allotments for the care of their children actually spend that money on their child and/or put it away for the child's future needs.

Spousal support...

On Saturday night I attended A Beatles Celebration at the Hollywood Bowl, and while this isn't a review of the performance but rather of the attendees, I would be remiss not to say a word or two about the show itself.

Todd Rundgren was the big name associated with...

An article in the New York Times yesterday revealed that the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is up in arms at the prospect that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission might approve the creation of a futures market that would deal in movie box office receipts.

I...

James Cameron's new film, Avatar, which just had its premiere in London last night, is about to take the world by storm.

I want to point out that I wrote the following in my blog back on August 21 after seeing a 20-minute sampling of scenes from Avatar...

One of my closest friends, a brilliant, gifted, dedicated teacher at California State University, Los Angeles, was recently informed that because of budget cuts she is to be laid-off. In my conversations with her over the past few months (she knew this might be coming) something became very clear to...

In his book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell makes a compelling case for the notion that the "self-made man" is a rare exception at best, but more often than not, a complete myth. Nowhere is this more true than in Hollywood.

Several months ago I started working with a group...

Working for a major studio and having friends at other studios, it's hard to ignore the doom and gloom talk that pervades this business when the topic turns to feature films.

"Why would anyone go to the theater when they have HD at home?"

"Movies have to be bigger than...

One of the side effects of the rise of Obama and accompanying Obamamania is the newly pervasive use of the word, 'look' to start any sentence, regardless of the contextual irrelevance of that word to the rest of the statement. Its frequent misuse by the man who gets more public...