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Some of you may barely remember earlier this year I wrote, for fun, a modern TV pilot based on Logan’s Run (the 1976 movie, more than the...

Yesterday I picketed with writers and actors for “United We Trek,” a protest at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood on the 57th anniversary...

Many thanks to Matthew Kaplowitz of Trek Untold who had me on his podcast. You can watch the video version at YouTube: I want to make...

We are getting the remnants of a rare hurricane here in Southern California (you may have heard). So far it’s just like any winter...

I like to play the New York Times spelling bee game. Recently, we took a family vacation, and I worried that it would be too cumbersome...

We’re off on a summer vacation this week! And because I still can’t figure out how to schedule blog columns on Wix in advance, this will...

I’m very grateful for the unorthodox movie education I got as a result of publishing Film Score Monthly, and producing our CDs. From Star...

Ten years ago I cowrote and executive produced a very strange indie thriller called Lucky Bastard. It’s a found footage thriller (to us,...

Of this writing I am about to take our girls to see Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. But today’s column is not about that film. Or...

I went to see a movie in a theater for the first time since before the pandemic. I took the kids to see The Little Mermaid, which they...

My kids have already surprised me with some fun cards and activities. Enjoy!

Happy Mother’s Day to my mom! And also to my wife, who does such an amazing job with our kids. Both of them can tell you... I’m not easy!

I am raising money to fight pancreatic cancer in the name of my stepfather, Herb Putnam. The charity is PanCan and they are fantastic....

Hello Friends. I am raising money to fight pancreatic cancer, which took my stepfather, HERB PUTNAM, in 2008. He was only 59. Herb was...

There have been numerous closures of Los Angeles restaurants since the start of the pandemic—many of them beloved institutions. I get...

Happy birthday to William Shatner, 92 today (3/22/23). This man is a force of nature, and has the constitution of an ox. If I understand...

When I was a kid growing up on Martha’s Vineyard, we lived at the end of a long dirt road in the woods. So a few times a year, when there...

Here is something I’ve had cooking that is super exciting! Normally I would not say anything, but Jonathan Frakes briefly mentioned it on...

I’ve been lucky—well, not lucky, but it’s happened—to be on both sides of “pitching”: the guy sending emails out to get attention and...