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Liza Kaplan is a Los Angeles native who currently works as coordinator of production at FX Network. When she is not producing television series, she is writing short stories and dreaming of running off to France.

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Q&A: Jason Reitman

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Jason Reitman is sitting in his car around 3rd Street and La Cienega suffering from road rage. A woman with a license plate of 5AEE461 (he requested I publish the number) has just taken up two parking spots irking Reitman with her social irresponsibility and less than acceptable driving skills. If only he could get out and direct traffic

4 days, 20 hours ago
 

Asli Filinta

Elephant hat

It’s always a thrill to put another feather in your cap. Or an owl on your scarf. Or a miniature zebra on your stingy brim fedora.

12 days ago.
 

My Sneaky Uncle

While the aspiring Apatows and Reitmans of the world have YouTube, and the blogosphere is often used as platform for self proclaimed “celebrity experts” to comment on everything from Lindsay’s latest DUI to Mischa’s cellulite, there is no place in the vast forest of the internet for the fledgling fiction writer to tell their version of Once Upon a Time. Well, there was no such place, until we created our ideal short storybook hero, SneakyUncle.

26 days ago.
 

The Country Girl

Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, NYC
Live Review: 5/28/08
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At the May 28th evening performance of this year’s Broadway revival of Clifford Odets’ The Country Girl , Uta Hagen’s daughter sat in the audience, transfixed, with tears in her eyes. Backstage, after the powerful performance, she gushed to Peter Gallagher, who plays the part of charismatic Bernie Dodd

1 month, 18 days ago
 

August: Osage County

Music Box Theatre, NYC
Live Review: 5/27/08
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In the Pulitzer Prize winning play, August: Osage County , Tracy Letts tells the tale of a rural Oklahoman family so dysfunctional, one could label them “highly gifted”.

1 month, 20 days ago