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September 8, 2015
The Best Book Review of My Life!
Jan Breslauer Book Review of Lawyers, Liars, and the Art of Storytelling I received the Best Book Review of My Life! Here is a snippet: Shapiro is offering a way for lawyers to get back in touch with stories and humor (not jokes — he doesn’t want you to tell jokes, and especially not lawyer jokes). He models […]
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June 27, 2015
Kevin Costner In Talks To Star In David E. Kelley’s Amazon Drama Pilot ‘Trial’
Nellie Andreeva over at Deadline.com shared this: “In what would be a big coup for Amazon” (shameless plug link), “I hear the streaming service is talking to Kevin Costner for the lead in one of its pilots. I’ve learned that the Oscar winner is in negotiations to star in Trial, the Amazon Studios drama from The Practice, […]
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January 21, 2015
Los Angeles Review of Books – Creatocracy
Jonathan Shapiro on Creatocracy: Creatocracy: How the Constitution Invented Hollywood Fabulous! THERE IS ONLY ONE WORD to describe Creatocracy: How the Constitution Invented Hollywood, Elizabeth Wurtzel’s paean to patent and copyright law and their influence on American history. Fabulous. “This country was always cool,” she writes. Everything we do here is cooler than everything they […]
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