OPEN MIKE: BLOG
Stories about celeb experiences & work moments after Post Hill’s publishing of my book “Breaking OUT of Show Business”, along with epiphanies, psychotic episodes, half-thoughts and my Last Will & Testament.
-
Jerry Seinfeld & Bradley Cooper: Celeb representatives are the worst.
These are two of mannnyyyyy ridiculous navigations in talent VS. rep management. Example number one, I was the talent producer for my first of several events with Jerry Seinfeld. For this job, there was a stage crew as well as a television crew. His rider list were the usual things that a person will never…
-
I almost had all the Golden Globe power!
I had been involved in the Globes for a handful of years before the Hollywood Foreign Press was culturally “canceled” weeks before the 2021 broadcast. The HFP was under contract with Dick Clark Productions as the producing company and in an exclusive broadcast agreement with NBC. In the heat of the ongoing accusations, NBC decided…
-
Talent-producing Diana Ross.
I have been hired many times on productions only to handle celebrity talent so the executive producer doesn’t have to, or because they are afraid of them. While Ms. Ross’s rider was nothing out of the ordinary regarding food, beverage, or amenities, it was noted (like most mature, female performers, that there are no close-ups…