I checked out the premiere of "Fringe" last night, because JJ Abrams knows how to draw in an audience, if not how to keep it. A friend of mine writes out her thoughts during episodes of "Lost", so I thought I'd try it with "Fringe". Spoilers within. I guess.

( Fringe: Episode One )

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/31/why-flirting-doesnt-work_n_94233.html

That explains it.

Everything is pretty great right now. Except progress with the movie. But everything else ( Read more... )

Name your top six shows right now before reading the questions.

1. Seinfeld
2. Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
3. The X-Files
4. Arrested Development
5. Quantum Leap
6. The Office (U.K.)

( The Questions )

**Hung out at the W Hotel and met Don Cheadle and Kirby Dick (director of "This Film is Not Yet Rated ( Read more... )

A scene from my experience at last night's UCLA Producer's Marketplace. Homeless people try to blend in with film students to score free food. One of them approaches me ( Read more... )

**That award I mentioned in my last post is actually $3,000, not $1,000. But unfortunately, Jack Nicholson won't be in attendance to give it to me ( Read more... )

Thanks to everybody who e-mailed today. I am doing fine and am having a great time with family visiting. Today my mom, sister and I went to Venice Beach. My dad always liked the crazy assholes out there, and was fascinated by the people and the stores and the whole bizarre culture of the place. He was a quiet guy, but always observant of and ( Read more... )

Last night my cousin, Morgan Radcliff, died. He was 22. His older sister Megan found him at home and immediately called their parents, who were across the country in San Francisco when it had happened ( Read more... )

So I just found out that I won a lottery to take a master screenwriting class with DAVID MAMET this Monday! Only 10 of us were selected.

He's the writer of stuff like "The Spanish Prisoner", "House of Games", "The Postman Always Rings Twice", "Glengarry Glen Ross", "Wag the Dog", yadda yadda yadda.