Subject: Writers Guild of America

• Hollywood on Ice

  January 18, 2008

• Harry Thomason on His Good Bad Road

  March 20, 2008

• Brute force

  December 1, 1994

• Will CBS Be Shooting Big D in Dallas? Start Holding Your Breath ...

  Word of a would-be CBS-TV series titled Big D has been circulating since last October, when creators Jeff and Jackie Filgo got the high sign from the network. At the time, no further details were available -- but as Tim Rogers pointed out over the weekend, The Hollywood Reporter has come up with this much: The show "centers on a New York couple who moves to the man's hometown of Dallas, where his Southern-belle mother makes life complicated for his East coast wife." Which sounds terrrrrible. Tha

  February 9, 2009

• Odd Man Out

  January 28, 1999

• Same Old Story

  Sequels, prequels and threequels headline Hollywood 2007

  December 28, 2006

• Bar Code

  Laws of Attraction is so generic it oughta be illegal

  April 29, 2004

• A Grand Guy

  How Steven Soderbergh kept the Terry Southern tale from turning tragic

  April 3, 2003

• Net Loss

  The government killed TV, and Hollywood's begging it to revive the corpse

  February 14, 2002

• Treat Him Write

  Sam Hamm writes great scripts. So why do they rarely get made?

  March 1, 2001

• Kiss and Tell

  Author and screenwriter Harry Preston reflects upon a career spent traveling from here to obscurity

  June 6, 1996

• Starck Reality: Michael Cain's Making Two Movies About the Late Dallas Danceteria

  Maybe you saw something in the paper last week about two Starck Club docs in the works -- the one we mentioned that sneak-peeked at the USA Film Fest, and another being cooked up by AFI Dallas International Film Fest artistic director Michael Cain with club founder Blake Woodall. Turns out, that's not the end of the story: Cain told me last week that in addition to the doc, he's also prepping a narrative feature about the legendary danceteria -- a "project I've been working on for 12 years," he

  May 7, 2009