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Film/TV/commercial writer. Proud @WGAWest member and strike captain. Broadway Quarantine Party host. Still mad about Laurie Metcalf’s Oscar.

Joined August 2013
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6 years
A LADY BIRD theme park ride where you get in a prop car and circle the airport while an animatronic Laurie Metcalf sobs in the driver’s seat
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Mentally I’m in the giant pit of stuffed animals at a ‘90s Disney Store
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You didn’t nominate her
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Happy Mothers Day to Toni Collette in Hereditary.
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Seth MacFarlane was a regular on the picket lines, paid for a bunch of food trucks, and donated $6 million to the Entertainment Community Fund. He can make FAMILY GUY as long as he wants.
@DiscussingFilm
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Seth MacFarlane has no plans to end ‘FAMILY GUY’ “I don’t see a good reason to stop. People still love it. It makes people happy and I don’t know if there’s any reason to stop unless people get sick of it” (Source: @latimes )
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Once again the Academy has chosen “most acting” over “best acting”
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This is what living in America feels like
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this week would fucking suck
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The WGA picket line at Fox just got a huge delivery of letters from students at St. Timothy’s Catholic School in Century City
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Muppet GONE GIRL when?
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unironically we gotta bring back muppets literary adaptations asap
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Sign of the day, courtesy of Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese:
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Farewell, Bob Newhart. The series finale of NEWHART is easily one of the greatest TV moments ever, the kind of hat trick it’d be near impossible to pull off today.
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Things I’d like to see discussed in Barbra Streisand’s 1,040-page memoir, a thread: 1) the time she painted Oprah’s mic white
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Charlie Kaufman’s barnburner of a speech at the WGA Awards is a must watch: “They’ve tricked us into thinking we can’t do it without them, but the truth is they cannot do anything of value without us.”
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These women were coerced by their employer to receive the Pfizer on Saturday. This was them on Sunday.
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The theatre industry really let her off scot free, didn’t they?
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For her last performance of “Funny Girl,” Lea Michele performed an extra song: “My Man,” a Fanny Brice original that Streisand sang at the end of the film version but was left out of the revival.
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On her 99th birthday, let’s never forget when Bea Arthur went to Pamela Anderson’s roast and just read excerpts from Pam’s novel word for word
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Never forget the master class where Patti LuPone told a high schooler that the mountains in “I Miss the Mountains” represent an orgasm
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Proud to say I came up with this slogan
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The woman sitting in front of me at MAESTRO just googled “Leonard Bernstein”
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7 months
Waiting for the day when TV can go back to being TV and not episodic movies that abruptly end in the middle
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'Flight Attendant' Canceled After Two Seasons at Max
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Sondheim’s ultimate legacy: teacher. If you’ve never seen him fangirl over a theatre student nailing “Not Getting Married,” meet your new favorite video.
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Here’s why the Late Night with the Devil thing is a big deal. First it’s three little AI drawings, then five AI effects, an AI rough cut, or AI music. It has to be a line we do not cross, otherwise the dam will be broken and there’s no going back from that.
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OpenAI has reportedly scheduled meetings next week with Hollywood studios, media executives and talent agencies to form partnerships in the entertainment industry. They reportedly want to encourage filmmakers to integrate AI into their work. ()
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This was an ice cream commercial in the ‘90s
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I feel like all media is drifting closer and closer to porn and nobody wants to speak up about it for fear of being labeled a prude
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I’m reminded of what Laurence Olivier famously said to Dustin Hoffman: “My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?”
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Union icon Sally Field (Norma Rae herself) is on the line with @WGAWest and @sagaftra today
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Yesterday I was told by a writer on the picket line that he gets higher residual payments from one episode of a broadcast sitcom he wrote in 1990 than his Netflix movie that got made a few years ago
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No contest
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Thinking of this icon who sang like the rent was months overdue
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Actors suing for unpaid backend profits is good. Do you know how many writers/directors are owed money on hits that the studios claim didn’t make a dime? Stars can afford a costly legal battle, they bring press, and they get movies made. Studios will have to play ball with them.
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Sure, Deadline, the people who deserve the real credit for Barbie’s success are the studio executives…
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How do you serve cunt in a god honoring way
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UNTITLED HUFFMAN/LOUGHLIN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS PROJECT (2021) An A24/Annapurna Co-Production Dir: Marielle Heller Laurie Metcalf - Felicity Huffman Amy Adams - Lori Loughlin Tracy Letts - William H. Macy Anya Taylor-Joy - Olivia Jade Aidy Bryant - Fake Exam Proctor
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This group of people got the Pfizer vaccine 45 minutes ago. This is them now:
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After the debacles of Cats and Dear Evan Hansen, Universal’s going to leak everything for fan approval while they shoot
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BIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH!!!!!
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Last night’s @RRRMovie screening in LA was electric. Nearly 500 people, both fans and first-timers, screaming, cheering, and applauding for 3 solid hours. And at the end, an immediate standing ovation. Film is a universal language and it doesn’t get better than this.
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Every Laurie Metcalf line reading is a Coltrane-level jazz riff where the thrill comes from having no idea where she’s going or how she’ll get there
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What was the most embarrassing moment on live TV?
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If you should take anything from today’s headlines, it’s that the studios are absolutely terrified of SAG-AFTRA joining us on strike
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Broadway at 1pm ET today:
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CARRIE had more performances on Broadway than people harmed by the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
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5 years
Siskel & Ebert pissing matches made for incredible television. Here they are angrily sniping over the forgotten 1994 family comedy BABY’S DAY OUT.
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My favorite piece of Cole Escola media remains “Bernadette Peters Does Her Taxes”
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Much respect to Jennifer Garner, who not only brought at least 10 pizzas to Fox today but walked the picket line with Chris Keyser and writers from her show THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME
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Jack Black is this week’s honk MVP on the Fox lot… by far
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On the passing of director Frank Galati, the opening number to RAGTIME - to this day one of the most simple, elegant, electric, and spine-tingling stagings at the top of a show.
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Damson Chola, Jr. was the #JimmyAwards MVP. Cast him in anything and everything.
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Can’t believe nobody did this one
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BREAKING: With 92% of my apartment reporting, I can project that Bernadette Peters was robbed at the 2003 Tony Awards
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Remember the “what’s the big deal? it’s only two brief drawings” argument about LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL a few weeks ago? Today we’re here:
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Netflix has used AI-generated images in a new true crime doc ‘WHAT JENNIFER DID’ to present Jennifer Pan as happy & confident before she was convicted of murder. Use of AI tools is not disclosed in the credits. (Source: )
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Chants of “pay your writers!” during David Zaslav’s BU commencement speech:
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“I hope this email finds you well.” How the email found me:
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Angela Lansbury’s passing doesn’t feel real in the same way Sondheim’s didn’t. And just like him, she’ll be with us forever.
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WB losing $3 billion while giving Zaslav a raise up to $50 million is the summation of every single thing happening in the entertainment industry right now. It begins and ends here.
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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav had a 2023 pay package worth $49.7 million, up 26.5% from the year prior.
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how the Beetlejuice trailer should have begun
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What dense 700-page Pulitzer Prize-winning history book should Chris Nolan adapt for film next?
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WGA and SAG-AFTRA joining forces to fuck up some billionaires and studio heads:
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I think we should start naming the new Covid variants after flop musicals
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BARBIE winning for box office and not in recognition of its many creative accomplishments is very stupid actually
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I’m tired of talent being blamed for corporate incompetence. Nobody’s pitching because nobody’s buying, unless you magically control iconic IP or attach an A-lister all by yourself.
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Executives were expecting a deluge of pitches after the writers strike, but that didn’t arrive: "If come January and February, it’s still crickets, then we have a problem"
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AMPTP is pulling the same trick they played on the WGA in August - leak their latest offer in an attempt to create dissent in the ranks. Actors, there’s a very simple way to push back on this. All need to get out on the picket line and stay there.
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Studios Declare SAG-AFTRA Talks "Suspended"; Slam Guild For Rejecting Terms Offered To WGA & DGA
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The AMPTP was not prepared for strikes in the social media era where spin and propaganda can be easily debunked with a 5-second Google search
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Just imagine the quotes we’d get if Carrie Fisher was here for the double strike
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Happy 90th birthday (in this life at least) to the one and only Shirley MacLaine
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Omicron in New York this week:
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Today at Fox - screenwriting icon Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, The Insider, Munich, Dune, Killers of the Flower Moon) came out to walk the line with us
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Mamma Mia 3, your time has come
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Greece has officially legalized same-sex marriage.
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Tom Hooper didn’t know what catnip was until Taylor Swift’s dad suggested drugging the entire cast at the Jellicle Ball
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I just called @MayorOfLA ’s office to demand the firing of LAPD Chief Moore. The rep confirmed they’re getting A LOT of calls and all messages will be sent to supervisors and the mayor. She encouraged me to email as well. (213) 978-1028 mayor.garcetti @lacity .org
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so The Outsiders is gritty “Greased Lightning” where every boy is Mike Faist
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A few more:
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When Sweeney takes out his razors
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This is how you age when you don’t have children and devote your free time to rescue animals
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Some media outlets would have you believe there’s a fracturing among high-level WGA members… Meanwhile the Showrunner Solidarity picket at Fox is several hundred people strong and only an hour in.
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9) her intense physical chemistry with Celine Dion
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All the INTO THE WOODS characters meeting each other in the forest
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When I started Broadway Quarantine Party in March 2020, there was no clip that blew everyone’s minds more than Hinton Battle in THE TAP DANCE KID
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She was 49 bullying an 11-year-old
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The female Tony at last night’s #JimmyAwards was Marley Garner from Santa Clarita, CA. Here’s her “Maria” at the Jerry Herman Awards in LA, which won her a spot in the Jimmys.
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Next year let’s take some of the Michael Caine in Muppet Christmas Carol energy and put it toward Charles Grodin in The Great Muppet Caper
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try again
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One of the best musical scenes in any movie ever.
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Jennifer Coolidge could lead a revival of Grey Gardens
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On the unscripted 2023 Tonys: - Patti LuPone wears a “WGAStrong” pin, fails to recognize the irony - Bernadette Peters and Joel Grey reenact their daily Zooms - Bad Cinderella invited to perform to kill time - Mandy Patinkin rants for 20 minutes before presenting Best Musical
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I couldn’t sleep last night because I was too excited for Dame Angela Lansbury’s 94th birthday. Starting the celebration with the greatest clip on the entire internet. @_AngelaLansbury
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THE COLOR PURPLE beating AQUAMAN on Christmas Day, tying a record, and bringing in an audience that’s largely female, non-white, and over 25… I don’t want to hear another word about superhero movies ever again
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Happy 99th heavenly birthday to Elaine Stritch, who gave us so much - including the time she went completely flat on the COMPANY album, then stopped singing altogether
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A high school senior cast as Milky White:
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I’ve got to be honest I kind of expected to speak.
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Remember that CAROLINE, OR CHANGE completed its run without a single canceled performance
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I somehow persuaded TEN people to come with me to @RRRMovie tonight!
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heRRRe we go!! @RRRMovie
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Laura Osnes auditioning for West Side Story at a dinner theater in rural Kentucky:
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I know we’re all waiting on Nevada and the jokes are funny! But I’ve been calling to cure ballots there since last week and most counties, especially the rural ones, are not prepared for the volume of ballots they’re receiving.
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Even Family Guy did “Shipoopi” better than the real Music Man revival
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If Nancy Meyers’ THE PARENT TRAP had been made in the 30s-40s instead of 1998, it would be in the Criterion Collection and studied alongside HIS GIRL FRIDAY, MY MAN GODFREY, and IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT.
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A packed house for Nancy Meyers weekend @am_cinematheque !!
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BREAKING: Biden confuses Chita Rivera and Rita Moreno at press conference
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Tulsa hasn’t been in this much trouble since Mama Rose found out Dainty June eloped
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In a way Sondheim’s death feels like a culmination of all the mass grief we’ve been experiencing for almost two years now.
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the beaming college student extras from The Mirror Has Two Faces who are clearly in love with her
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They drank the Panera lemonade
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