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1. Celebrities Can Be Taxing

   

   Using Tax Day as a very weak hook, we talk to the man who helped clear Wesley Snipes of tax fraud... (30 days ago)

2. AFTRA-SAG Split; a 'Miss Guided' Novice Writer

   

   Hollywood’s actors’ unions file for an untimely divorce. Then, what happens when a no... (37 days ago)

3. Qualified to Act.; The ShoWest Goes On

   

   In a town where actors are more likely to wait tables than wait in the wings, how do you define a... (44 days ago)

4. Big Gulp to Blockbuster

   

   Jim Keyes was the former CEO of 7-11 stores. Now he’s applying the lessons of the Big Gulp ... (51 days ago)

5. Gaming Goes Casual; Pilot(Less.) Season

   

   Video games are an $18 billion business in the US, and they just keep growing. Will Hollywood stu... (58 days ago)

6. A Studio Executive 'Wants to Direct;' Goodbye, HD-DVD

   

   What happens when a studio executive comes out from behind his desk to direct a major motion pict... (65 days ago)

7. An Assistant Says Goodbye, Part II; 'The Inkwell' Incident

   

   The William Morris mailroom is the high-stress, low-pay, sanctum sanctorum of show biz. It can le... (233 days ago)

8. You Got the Writing Job, Now You're Fired; Agency Assistant Fires His Agency

   

   A conversation about the vital, essential, but ultimately disposable Hollywood writer with Oscar-... (240 days ago)

9. You Got the Writing Job, Now You're Fired; Agency Assistant Fires His Agency

   

   A conversation about the vital, essential, but ultimately disposable Hollywood writer with Oscar-... (240 days ago)

10. Shepard's Progress; Residuals Revisited

    

    Samuel Goldwyn said, “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” We catch up with writer/... (248 days ago)

11. Best of The Business: White Writer, Black Show; 'The TV Set'

    

    We revisit our chat with a white writer on a black sitcom, then look at the way television shows ... (257 days ago)

12. Superagent to (Underage) Stars; The Burgeoning Video Game Industry

    

    The $37 billion business that mainstream journalists and Hollywood can no longer afford to ignore... (261 days ago)

13. Life Imitates Art; Sumner's Follies

    

    It’s a case of life imitating art imitating life! We talk with a filmmaker who had to convi... (275 days ago)

14. Fundraising in Hollywood; (Re)Visiting the Spin Doctor

    

    We talk to former studio chief and super fundraiser Tom Sherak about getting the big shots to sha... (282 days ago)

15. To Strike or Not to Strike.; The Ex-Director of X-Men 3; CinemaScore

    

    Why would a director walk away from a studio dream job. We talk to the ex-director of X-Men 3.- P... (290 days ago)

16. To Strike or Not to Strike.; The Ex-Director of X-Men 3; CinemaScore

    

    Why would a director walk away from a studio dream job. We talk to the ex-director of X-Men 3.- P... (292 days ago)

17. Things Bruce Dern Said, but Probably Shouldn't Have

    

    Actor Bruce Dern calls his ‘unrepentant memoir’ Things I’ve Said, but Probably ... (299 days ago)

18. Sidewalk DVD's; Protecting Ideas in Hollywood

    

    While Jack Sparrow and his crew were raking in buckets of dubloons at the box office, pirates of ... (306 days ago)

19. Livin' on the Bubble

    

    What does it mean for your TV show to be on the bubble. We speak with the producers of Scrubs and... (312 days ago)

20. The Almost Guy

    

    He wrote, directed, produced and starred in the 2004 indie comedy The Almost Guys, but given the ... (318 days ago)