In Variety's Power of Young Hollywood issue, I profile Iain Armitage, Finn Bennett, VicBlends, Emma Chamberlain, Lily Collias, MeKai Curtis, Hailey Kilgore, Joey King, Mikey Madison and Michael Rainey Jr. Thanks to my editor Carole Horst. (variety.com/lists/young-ho…)

Nora Garrett was training AI models for Meta before Imagine Enter. greenlit her script "After the Hunt" w/director Luca Guadagnino and a cast toplined by Julia Roberts & Andrew Garfield. Read about it in my profile for Variety's Screenwriters to Watch. shorturl.at/HtBZs

When I interviewed Quincy Jones as part of my first show biz trade assignment for The Hollywood Reporter eons ago, he called me "a real 360 dude." It took me a week to figure out this meant "well-rounded." It may be a compliment he handed out like candy at Halloween, but I will nonetheless carry

Yes, you want to read my feature about book-to-TV adaptations in Variety: "The common wisdom is that Hulu’s 'The Handmaid’s Tale' burned through all the plot from Margaret Atwood’s 1985 source novel by the end of its first season. But that’s not so." (x.com/Variety/status…)

If you analyze the list of reprehensible acts committed by Shauna on “Yellowjackets," you can safely say that she is an objectively horrible person who should be serving a long stretch in prison. But not if you’re Melanie Lynskey ... variety.com/2025/tv/actors…

A whole lot of mayhem awaits you in my latest for Variety variety.com/2025/tv/featur…

Time to dust off "Celebrity Death Feeding Frenzy," a relic from my Film Threat days with Chris Gore

Many years ago, I saw dalebozzio and Missing Persons in concert in San Francisco. Now, I've circled back with this feature for Variety in which she talks about the time she fell 40 feet from a room at the Holiday Inn in Downtown LA. (variety.com/2025/biz/enter…)

When B.B. King died in May 2015 at the age of 89, his Variety obituary hailed him as “the ‘King of the Blues,’ who helped define his genre’s electrified postwar sound and became the music’s best-known international ambassador.” That’s a far cry from his first appearance in these

“It’s funny, the closer things are to me, the less I can remember them,” muses Def Leppard lead singer Joe Elliott. “But ask me about 1980, I’ll tell you everything.” Def Leppard made their first trip to Hollywood in May 1980 for their first-ever concert on their first U.S. tour

The first appearance of Def Leppard in the pages of Variety, along with their latest, a career-spanning feature marking their induction into Hollywood's Walk of Fame variety.com/2025/music/eve…

I take a peek inside the office (and mind) of Electric Entertainment head Dean Devlin, who's been a driving force behind projects ranging from "Independence Day" to "The Librarians." Variety variety.com/2025/biz/enter…

It’s never good form to focus on how a natural disaster disproportionately affects the wealthy, especially when phrases like “eat the rich” are trending on X. But that was the case with the L.A. fires last January. Variety variety.com/2025/biz/enter…

I had the pleasure of speaking to G a b r i e l - I g l e s i a s and Jo Koy about their upcoming show at SoFi Stadium for my feature in Variety variety.com/2026/voices/en…