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Martini Shot

Summary: Veteran TV writer Rob Long shares his behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood life with Martini Shot, a four-minute weekly commentary heard during KCRW's broadcast of NPR's All Things Considered.

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Podcasts:

 Need an Ending | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

What you do when you suddenly wonder what your life is all about. You do what studios do when they're making an expensive movie and they don't like the ending. They stop production and figure it out.

 Let's Get Entrepreneurial | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The new and exciting directions the entertainment business is going in – a more disruptive and entrepreneurial way of doing business. And all of those words mean only one thing: the writer's not getting paid.

 You're Fired | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Getting fired, firing someone, and Rob's personal choice, just passive-aggressively ignoring them until they stop appearing in his line of sight.

 On Fleek | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Rob's totally on fleek. And if you have to ask what that means, don't bother.  No one will be saying it in a week or so.

 Play One on TV | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Sometimes really excellent actors have a hard time knowing the difference between things that happened to them in real life and on screen. News anchors, too. Not unrelated.

 Botoxing History | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

What the producers of the movie Selma do to historical fact as "giving history a little face lift and tummy tuck."

 Needs the Money | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The worst way to sell someone on anything is to assume that they need it. No one wants to hear that.

 Cold Day | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

A change of venue – and a change in climate – can boost your creativity. It can, but it can also freeze your hair.

 Faking It | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

What do you do when you want to take charge but don’t know, exactly, what you’re talking about?

 To Don't List | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Rob rings in the new year with a To Don't list, which is like a To Do list -- but the opposite.

 Call Me to Discuss | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Rob tell you the four words you need to have a happy and safe 2015.  Four words that can save you a lot of trouble.

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