Author: LB

A legendary figure in the television writing and production world with a career going back to the late ’60s, Larry Brody has written and produced hundreds of hours of American and worldwide television and is a consultant to production companies and networks in the U.S. and abroad . Shows written or produced by Brody have won several awards including - yes, it's true - Emmys, Writers Guild Awards, and the Humanitas Award.

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #118 “Wanda the Arkansas Angel Makes a Match”

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.

Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B. read article

Latest WGA-Talent Agency Campaign Update: WME and CAA

by Larry Brody

Here’s where we as WGAW members stand. This email went out to Writers Guild of America West last Friday. And, yes, it’s important even if you aren’t a member because these issues affect the way all of our fun little industry called showbiz is run.

Today, the WGA sent both WME and CAA a proposal that outlines the steps each of them must take in order to be in compliance with the 20% ownership cap on production affiliates in the franchise agreement. At the same time, we sent them a renewal of our initial information request, which they have, up to this point, only partially satisfied. read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #117 “The Universe’s Honor Roll”

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.

Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B. read article

If You Haven’t Seen ‘Big Fish’ You’ve Missed a Film Classic

Burton Binge: Big Fish (2003)
by John Kenneth Muir

(LB’S NOTE:  This is my second favorite film of all time, brilliantly explicated by my friend John Kenneth Muir. (We shared the same book agent many moons ago.)

“A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.”
– Big Fish (2003)

Tell me, which alternative  fosters a better understanding of your life experience: the bare bones truth, or an embellished, “flavored” version of the truth that contextualizes you life as a great story, one with heroes and villains, winners and losers, and a beginning…and inevitable end? read article

Latest Update Re WGA vis a vis CAA and WME

Just in case you haven’t figured out the acroynyms, we’re talking about the ongoing negotiations between the Writers Guild of America and the two large talent agencies who still haven’t signed an agreement that would let them represent WGA writers…like just about every other agency in the wonderful world of showbiz, large and small, has.

September 30, 2020
Dear Members,

We are writing to provide you with another update on where we stand in our negotiations with the remaining unfranchised agencies. In short: our conversations continue. read article