'It Was a Great Show': Bruce Vilanch Unpacks the Oscars
Bruce Vilanch spent 14 of his 24 years on the Academy Awards as the show’s head writer (2000-2014), collaborating with hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Crystal, David Letterman and Steve Martin. Today, he...
13 Maalis 202330min
Jeremy Zimmer: I'm Siding With the WGA
With the entertainment business in chaos, and a potential WGA strike looming, UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer comes out swinging in support of better economics for writers, and delivers sometimes scathing opini...
11 Maalis 202334min
Streaming's Reckoning: Industry Titans Speak Up
As the one-year anniversary of the Great Netflix Correction approaches, the town’s streaming future sure looks a lot more uncertain as Bob Iger, Jeremy Zimmer, UTA CEO, and Sony Pictures Entertainment...
10 Maalis 202341min
Hollywood at War: Now and Then
For decades, the prevailing narrative around Gone With the Wind has been that it romanticized slavery and the antebellum south. But, as David Vincent Kimel learned when he discovered one of the film's...
3 Maalis 202352min
Richard Rushfield's Star Prom Date
Today, Richard Rushfield dives deeper into his high school classmates growing up in L.A. (names include Matthew Greenfield, Jay Sures, Brett Morgen, Jason Blumenthal, Maya Rudolph and Jack Black), par...
24 Helmi 202343min
What's Eating Hollywood Execs?
“It’s a terrible place to make creative decisions when fear seeps into the process,” Peter Kiefer tells our hosts, as he explains what he learned from interviews with a dozen of the town’s senior exec...
17 Helmi 202348min
How Hollywood AI Will Make 'Every Creative Job Look Different'
Few technological disruptors to the entertainment industry have appeared quite as fast, or as existentially forebodingly, as artificial intelligence. After ChatGPT, DALL-E and other new AI technologie...
10 Helmi 202350min
