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Fast Company Previews:  Inside the Pixar Braintrust

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

2009:  The Rise and Fall of the Cincinnati Boner King

2019: Walking Time Bomb

2018: Lady Leadfoot

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  | Amy Wallace’s Latest Run in With “Hollywood’s Information Man” |  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

2019: My step-father's ode to fire

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

1986:  Teaching the Humane Touch

2004:  Larry Cohen – The Survivor

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

2009:  Pee-wee Herman Rides Again

2010:  Cesar Milan: The Dog Whisperer

2012:  Meet Lucy Jones, "the Earthquake Lady"

2013:  Nicki Minaj profile

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.

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2009:  The Unlikely Return of Mickey Rourke

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2013:  Kim Kardashian profile

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

1993:  Swifty Lazar, Super-agent, Dead at 83

1990:  Till Murder Do Us Part: The Betty Broderick Story

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

2009:  Holly Hunter: Saving Grace's Wild Woman

2009:  Farah's Brainy Side

2013:  Jessica Pare profile

2012:  Viola Davis profile

2010:  Hilary Swank profile