Sometimes you learn more from your failures than your successes. One of the most painful times occurred in early 2000. My goal was to build the ultimate state-of-the-art baseball stadium in the entertainment capital of the world, Las Vegas. At the time, Mandalay baseball owned five professional minor league franchises...
0 Comments | Posted February 23, 2011 | 7:45 AM
Hollywood awards season, which kicks off with the Golden Globes in January and culminates with the Academy Awards at the end of February, has more stories -- heroes, villains, saviors, twists, turns, machinations, recriminations, rejuvenations, regenerations, and in some cases, regurgitations -- than a Charles Dickens novel on steroids. For...
0 Comments | Posted February 8, 2011 | 6:30 AM
I've been a teller of stories all my life - in front of the camera, behind the camera, as an entrepreneur, executive, leader and professor at UCLA for close to four decades. The purposeful story - one that drives your listeners/audience to your goal and incites and excites them...
0 Comments | Posted January 29, 2011 | 9:23 AM
I hate wearing tuxedos. Yet, Sunday, January 16, I had my tuxedo, shoes, shirt, tie, my award tickets, and various other accessories laid out in my dressing room, ready for the evening's first major awards, the Golden Globes. I was five minutes into the huge line of limos that preceded...
0 Comments | Posted January 18, 2011 | 6:50 AM
Out with the old and in with the new? That's the question that the movies in 2011 will have to answer. Do more of the same and expect a different result? After all, 2010 domestic attendance is markedly down. Or, will they take a risk and become a challenger to...
0 Comments | Posted January 8, 2011 | 11:47 AM
In recent years, there has been a continuing dialog that books were no longer a major source of intellectual properties for movies. Anecdotal evidence that seemed to support that included the fact that the audience was growing younger, their attention span shorter, and their bandwidth was convulsed with noisier and...
0 Comments | Posted July 7, 2010 | 10:02 AM
What happens when a group of film and television producers, master modern storytellers, travels to Africa, specifically Ethiopia, the cradle of Man and the source of all storytelling, on adventure? They find...
0 Comments | Posted March 23, 2011 | 11:08 PM