THEN People had car trouble. NOW If someone tells you they’re not coming because their car won’t start, you don’t believe them. THEN Your computer crashed, you feared the Blue Screen Of Death. NOW Your computer goes months without ever crashing, and you barely turn it on anyway, only for work, because you’re addicted to […]

There’s only one owner here. That’s what Rupert Murdoch told Barry Diller after Barry did the impossible, create a fourth television network. Barry believed he earned ownership. But Rupert felt otherwise. You think you want a job, you think you want to sell out, but if you’re not in charge of your life someone else […]

You’ve got to strike when the iron is hot, when you’re inspired. Sure, there are artists who labor over their work, like those schmos who believe writing is rewriting. Sure, fix the mistakes, but if you’re sharpening your pencils trying to get it right, chances are you never will. Don’t eke it out, go to […]

He takes so much credit! Bruce Springsteen? The way he runs around the stage, uses all the space? That’s CLIVE! I don’t expect you to believe that, and I certainly don’t, but I barely knew Ahmet and he loved to tell stories, but he wasn’t the punch line of each, they all didn’t end with […]