What? You didn’t know he was a writer? Hey, he wrote some of Obama’s funniest speeches. Well, the funny lines anyway.
I assume.
Maybe.
Category: News
Here It Is: The New BigMedia Showbiz Business Model
…Same as the old indie showbiz business model – except even cheaper.
Jerry Seinfeld’s New Show ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ Gets First Teaser (Video)
by Jordan Zakarin
Seinfeld, famously, was a show about nothing. Jerry Seinfeld‘s new show, on the other hand, is clearly a show about something; it’s right there in the title: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. The meaning of something, of course, is relative.
At Last! Now It’s really DALLAS!
by Larry Brody
…To quote an old friend who was a writer-producer on the original series (and will be commenting about the new version here soonish).
Dallas – The war for Southfork begins
by Chuck Duncan
‘Dallas’ aired an all-new episode on the Fourth of July, and there were fireworks as Bobby and John Ross both discovered they’d been duped by JR over control of Southfork. Did we expect anything less from him?
*This* is a Good Idea
When is “editing” really “marketing?” Read on:
Children’s author crowdsources the editing of her new time-travel novel
by Charlie Jane Anders
Most authors nowadays try to get as many pairs of eyes as possible to look at their books before they’re published. Look at the acknowledgements of any science fiction or fantasy novel, and you’ll see a list of beta readers and people who gave feedback on early drafts.
What We Can Learn From DaVinci
Although, when you think about it, what CAN’T we learn from him?
8 Lessons for Modern Creators from Leonardo da Vinci
by Simon Brushfield
[T]he lessons of Leonardo and his time are not confined to the history books – here’s what they have to teach modern artists and creators.