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Reviews: The Wall Street Journal | The Christian Science Monitor | Seth Godin | Los Angeles Times | Kirkus | Fortune Magazine | Publishers Weekly | The Hollywood Reporter
2018: The Time Bandits of Southern California | Kate McKinnon Is Comedy’s Not-So-Secret Weapon | Walton Goggins’s L.A. Home Is an Always-Changing Collage of Stuff
2017: My Two Days With Jerry Lewis | Spinal Tap vs. Hollywood | The Magnificent, Mundane Louie Anderson
2016: Jon Bernthal Is the Tough Guy Troublemaker Actor’s Actor Punisher | Warren Beatty Talks Death, Sex, and Dropping the F-Bomb | My Fitbit Addiction | Garry Shandling's Memorial Service Was a Funny, Sad, Perfect Tribute to a Beloved Comedy Mentor & The Last Email Garry Shandling Ever Sent Me | Huge News! The Penis Implant is Here
2015: Black Mass: Johnny Depp and Scott Cooper’s Triumph | What Charlie Sheen's HIV Diagnosis Means for His Future (and HIV's) | Jeffrey Tambor's Emmy-Winning Genius, Explained by 3 TV Show Creators | Rob Lowe’s Tips for Re-Re-Reinventing Yourself | Jeffrey Tambor profile | As Baltimore Smolders, Actors Quit Controversial Ferguson Play in L.A. | The Reason Behind Will Ferrell's Agency Defection and Hollywood's Major Comedy Shakeup | Conrad Hilton and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Flight | The Long, Strange Purgatory of Casey Kasem
2014: And the Most Powerful Internet Mogul of 2014 Is... Will Ferrell | Dave Chappelle at the Comedy Cellar: The Funniest Night on Earth | Kevin Hart profile | Katy Perry profile
2013: Justin Timberlake profile | A Very Dangerous Boy | Justin Theroux profile | James Franco and the All-Star Cast of This Is the End | Miss Millennium: Beyoncé
2012: Judd Apatow profile | Frank Ocean profile | Joseph Gordon-Levitt profile | Amen! (D'Angelo's back)
2011: Matt Damon profile | Jerry Lewis at 85 | Charlie Sheen profile | The Heroes of Tucson
2010: Violence, Nudity, Adult Content | The Comedian's Comedian's Comedian
2016: On Set With Jeff Nichols, Hollywood’s Next Blockbuster Auteur
2014: Steve Jobs’ Doctor Wants to Help Us All Live Longer
2012: Amy Bishop Writes Her Own Ending
2011: The Fury
2009: Physicist Taps Pop Culture to Explain New Theory of Time
2009: An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All
Selected stories
2017: The Hollywood Exec and the Hand Transplant That Changed His Life
2016: The Art of Being a Person on an Airplane | Quincy Jones Turns 83 Today. He Gives Us a Glimpse Into the Life of a Musical Legend
2015: California or Bust | What Really Goes into Reporting a 10,000-Word Story?
2014: Who Killed Bugsy Siegel? | Eva Longoria Is ‘More American Than Bill O’Reilly’ | Faith & Popcorn
2013: Fit and 50 | My 2001 Peter Bart profile on Nieman Storyboard
2012: Speak Easy Q&A: Callie Khouri | Where the Sidewalk Ends | Jonah Lehrer | L.A. Story: Alison Brie | L.A. Story: Madeleine Stowe | L.A. Story: Regina King | Celebrity Endorsements
2011: L.A. Story: Anil Kapoor | L.A. Story: Laura Dern | L.A. Story: Paula Abdul | L.A. Story: Sam Trammell | L.A. Story: Blair Underwood | L.A. Story: Tim Burton | L.A. Story: Josh Radnor | Speak Easy Q&A: Lucy Jones | L.A. Story: Rashida Jones | The Doctor is Out... for Revenge
2010: James Ellroy, Ladies Man | Los Angeles, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down
2009: Emailing Viggo Mortensen | One Angry Betty
2003: Robert Newman profile
2002: Lawyers, Tiggers & Bears, Oh My! | California or Bust
2001: Peter Bart profile
2009: The Other Baron Cohen: A Narrated Biography
2006: Viggo Mortensen: Eats Roadkill, Speaks Danish
2005: What I've Learned: Jerry Lewis | What I've Learned: Billy Bob Thornton
2015: Chip Wilson, Lululemon Guru, Is Moving On
2014: Viola Davis as You’ve Never Seen Her Before: Leading Lady! | Deep Inside Baz Luhrmann’s Creative Chaos | Life as a Female Journalist: Hot or Not?
2012: The Case for Calm Over Rising Health Costs
2011 Prototype columns: With a Flip of a Knob, He Heard the Future | Science to Art, and Vice Versa | Help for Amateur Inventors | Cross-generational Innovation | A Teen’s Idea for Changing the World | Whisper Words of Business Wisdom | Wasps as Bedbug Hunters? | Growing Grapes as Part of a Real-Life Script
2010 Prototype columns: Merry Christmas, Inventive Folks! | Dead Celebs for Charity | Horizontal Corduroy Pants?? | We Got a Mention! Now Let's Panic | Online Giving Meets Social Networking | Matching Innovators with Shoppers | Whose Idea Was It, Anyway? | Take Them to the Cleaners, Again and Again | Putting Customers in Charge of Design | Crème De la Cell: Six-Figure Phones | The Wit that Breeds Wisdom | Building a Better Mailbox
2009: Whispering to Rottweilers, and to C.E.O.’s | Checkmate at the Yellowstone Club
2003: Rabbi Finds Anti-materialism A Tough Pitch in Hollywood | At Home with Spongebob Squarepants | Yes, a Warm, Fuzzy Place in Hollywood | And the Oscar Does Not Go to... Life on the B-list
2011: Matt LeBlanc Gets Wise To The Game
2010: Brian Austin Green Married Megan Fox – and You Didn't | A Conversation with Oliver Stone | Seth MacFarlane Sounds Off
2002: The Greasy Spoons that Made L.A. Great
1997: Uni Bomber
1995: Karma and culture draw Hollywood to the free-spirited Crossroads School
1994: Social Climbers
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All images used with permission from Anna Wahlgren.
Selected stories
2000: The Double Life of a Beloved Insider | Tinseltown Divorce: Survival of the Fittest | The Hottest Seats in Hollywood
1999: Ben Affleck: Opportunity Knocked at Every Turn
2009: Madoff’s Hollywood Connection | Get Me Rewrite, Rewrite, Rewrite | Paula Wagner Q & A
2008: Wesley Snipes' Tax Lawyers Move West | Haim Saban profile | Life of the Party: Warren Cowan RIP | Meg Whitman Q & A
2007: Roger McNamee profile | Nastier than a Speeding Bullet | Their So-Called Site | Dabbling in the George Clooney Business | Ryan Kavanaugh profile
2010: Sharon Stone profile | Dana Delany profile | Meg Whitman's Political Reinvention | Harold and Me: Grownups Lessons from a Classic Children's Book