For around 15 years I was staff at Uproxx, HuffPost and Movieline. I’ve written for a lot of places like Vanity Fair, New York, GQ, Wired, and Empire. I now own a newsletter.
I had to get to the bottom of this Charlie Kaufman "Weirder Al" Yankovic comedy sketch. I had to know the details. It took me, literally, years. Okay, let's back up. Quite a few years ago now I spent months working on an oral history of
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You posted a story about Tom Cruise that you said "a famous actor" told you at a party. Any chance you can tell me who it was? – Alice Back in April I posted a story about Tom Cruise that I was told at a premiere party and it&
For those of us who have lost a parent, the Mother's Day, Father's Day gauntlet of holidays can be ... fraught. This week is, frankly, one of my least favorite of the year. And, I suspect, I'm not alone. And if you feel this way,
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I have lived in New York City for 22 years. This NBA Finals run by the New York Knicks is the most fun this place has been over those 22 years. New Yorkers get a bad rap because I think people are, generally, pretty nice here as long as you
With Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day (a movie I like) hitting theaters this weekend, everyone is ranking their favorite Spielberg movies. I tried doing this in my head and I failed. I have seen every Steven Spielberg movie, with the least recent being 1941 – a movie I kinda want
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Disclosure Day isn't a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It's definitely not a remake. But there are certainly echoes and parallels and inverted scenarios that do hearken back to Steven Spielberg's 1977 classic. It's a similar premise, but one
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It's Friday, so let's answer some mailbag questions, including one that's been staring at me for a few weeks now but I've been putting off because reliving "worst interviews" isn't really pleasant. I've already written about
may the bridges I burn light the way
A few years ago I, accidentally, created a new movie for Kristen Wiig. She wound up having to address this movie that doesn't exist on a late night television show. In fact, the above image is of Kristen Wiig the exact moment she's being asked, "
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So, while reading this, keep in mind that the new Masters of the Universe was, somehow, created in a lab specifically for me. I even said this to a publicist who asked for my opinion after the movie. Which is, I really can't attest how the population at
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This reader question comes from Academy Award nominated screenwriter Michael Weber, who has co-written (along with Scott Neustadter, who, as far as I know, has never heard of this newsletter) The Disaster Artist, (500) Days of Summer, and The Spectacular Now. (I did ask him if he wanted to
I've interviewed Paul Rudd a few times over the years, most of which are no longer online, so I can't link to them. He's one of my favorite people to interview because (a) he's Paul Rudd and he's as pleasant
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Well, another week. We did it. Or, perhaps, we did not do it. Who's to say? Though, I do want to take the time to thank everyone, again, who reads this newsletter. As I've said, I like doing it, but it is time consuming. I try