The Nix: A novel This book is fantastic. The Kindle rekindled my interest in reading books. Before that I was purely a magazine guy, I needed the immediacy, the truth, books were a backwater I’d abandoned way back when. And now readers have their knickers in a twist. That’s exactly the point. These holier-than-thou supposed […]

Someone always thinks the rules don’t apply to them. That’s the hardest part of being a leader, keeping everybody in line. You think you want to run a large organization, that manpower is appealing, as is the money raised when your company goes public, but I’m of the one man band variety, I want to […]

“Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency“ This book is so depressing I almost want to tell you not to read it. But that would be a mistake. I was not going to read it, because I hate oral histories and the reviews were horrid. Then I ran into Steve Barnett who told […]

It was a stiff upon release. It cost $3 million and grossed $4 million in a pre-home video era. In other words, it lost money, with only half of gross receipts coming back to the studio. Sure, there was television income, but this was pre-cable. No one knew the movie and no one knew the […]