LB: Cartoonists Look at Writers 2

by Larry Brody

This:

Tom Gauld gets it. read article

LB: Cartoonists Look at Writers 1

by Larry Brody

This:

Tony Carrillo gets it. read article

LB: Speedfreaks

by Larry Brody

Remember the old saying, ‘We don’t need it good we need it Thursday?’ Well, thanks to streaming TV and the need to binge it’s helped all of us develop, the due date just got bumped up to tomorrow.

Yes, this calls for a:

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LB: Required Reading for Everyone Starting Out in Showbiz

by Larry Brody

A TVWriter™ oldie but goodie. In 2019 we called this Stage32.Com post “the most open, honest, and absolutely essential article we’ve ever seen about how Hollywood show business really works.” Can you handle–

Bullshit Lies My Film Professor Taught Me About Hollywood
by Michael Tapia

I had a professor who worked on the show Prison Break and I went to visit him on the set one year. I was on the call sheet! Intern. First day of the shoot, my professor, the director of the episode that week, asked for me to get him a “coffee.” read article

LB: The Navajo Dog’s Evil Twin?

Not the Navajo Dog…or is it?

by Larry Brody

Those of you who follow the reprints of my locally popular early 2000s newspaper column, Live! From Paradise! or have read my extremely  unpopular book of poetry, Kid Hollywood and the Navajo Dog may be as interested as I am (okay, maybe almost as interested) in the picture above.

I found this on the website of a company called Dean & Tyler, which makes dog collars, harnesses, leashes, etc., while looking for a lightweight harness for our black Lab, Layla Her Supreme Majesty Just Ask Her, and was immediately struck by what appears to be a return to life of the dog who adopted me in Monument Valley, Utah and stayed at my side teaching me all about life (and magic) for almost two decades.

The Navajo Dog, AKA Dineh, started life as a feral dog, part red heeler and part coyote, on the Navajo Reservation, and until this picture I’d never seen another dog like her. Now that I have, I feel compelled to find the dog in the picture and know everything there is to know about it because, you know, I’m foolishly hoping the magic strikes again. read article