The State of the State: Fighting Budget Cuts One Day at a Time

For the last several days, I have been in Oakland and Sacramento trying to work out a deal to limit the state budget cuts to the UC system. ...

HU HAS A NEW SITE!

HU has moved to Wordpress!  Our new address is HOLLYWOODU.NET .  It will take me a couple of weeks to fix the formatting on old posts... tha...

Fighting for Funding and Administrative Reductions

Next week, I will be going with several union leaders to speak to state legislators regarding the UC budget. We will propose that the state...

Check out February's edition of Elle Magazine: The TV Issue. The magazine includes interviews with Bonnie Hammer, Head of NBC Universal...

The Story for FRASIER

I've been meaning to blog about how our Nickelodeon pilot came to be... in the meantime, check out Peter Casey's posts (Parts I and...

Help Wanted

I'm looking for someone to help me customize a wordpress blog.  Anyone?

Notes on Dialogue Writing

Below is Ken Levine's post on A Rookie Writing Mistake: Writing On the Nose.  This is a common problem among the young writing I read.  ...

Premise Pilots v. Non-Premise Pilots

I've complied a long lists of posts I'd like to write in the coming weeks, one of which addresses the difference between premise and...

Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship

Amanda the Aspiring Writer posted this AMAZING interview with Karen Kirkland, Executive Director of the Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship.  Gr...

Don't Be Afriad to Ask For Help

2010 was a year of many [entertainment industry] firsts for me.  My first time writing a half-hour sitcom (since college).  My first ti...

A Plan to Reduce the UC Budget

Since Gov. Brown is saying that he wants to meet with union and student leaders to discuss how to reduce the UC budget, I have put together ...

Brown Asks UC Students and Unions to Help Cut the UC Budget by $500 Million

The new California governor, Jerry Brown, has just announced a reduction of the UC and CSU budgets by $500 million each for 2011-12, and thi...

The Terminator’s Parting Shot: A New UC Regent

In one of his last official acts, Gov Schwarzenegger has appointed David Crane to be the next UC regent. While Crane’s appointment has to b...

LINK: Chad Gervich's Resources

A new link for a new year: Check out Chad Gervich's resource page including Entertainment News & Tracking Resources , Job-Hunting ...