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Saturday, I think I spoke to a few people on the phone and texted others, but I mostly cut 35 pages from the script. As Dan points out, if it were now filmed at 224 pages, it would only be a 3 hour and 44 minute film, only 8 minutes longer than Lawrence of Arabia. Obviously, totally not acceptable yet. Alt...

It seems that the meanest person in the world is editing my screenplay. And for better or worse, that person is me. We’re at 260 pages (ha — my typo was “pounds”;  I really am on a juice-cleanse mindset) and we want to be at 120 by Monday, so we’re talking about reducing ...

I loved the moment when Elaine Stritch on 30 Rocks says to Jack’s wife Avery who’s expecting:  “Remember, when you’re pregnant, it’s only one bottle of wine a day, AND THAT’S IT!” Yesterday, I began my juice cleanse –– if you read my Unauthorized Bio on this site y...

Obviously, Shakespeare had parting and not cupcakes in mind (probably) when he wrote that line, and it was indeed very sad to drive Adrian to the airport last night after our awesome week together in San Francisco. Anyone who knows me at all, knows I love a good cupcake, and just before we left we found th...

After a lovely day –– coffee at Acre, planning meeting, lunch at the super-zen, super-gorgeous, Japanese Tea Garden, and teaching a private client  ––Adrian and I had an early dinner at Don Pistos. It’s true that on my very first visit, I went with Susan at 7pm, but that was before I registered with ...

Monday morning I reconstructed my to do list — there were an overwhelming number of activities on it — and my usual system of sorting things (based on SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE) just wasn’t helping. Creating a David Neagle inspired list of “Miracle Generating” ac...

No Oscars for us on Sunday night. Instead, Adrian and Belle and I went to the rescheduled Simone Dinnerstein concert at the Montalvo Arts Center, an easy hour drive from San Francisco into bucolic countryside. It’s your basic Italianate villa on 175 acres that a Senator built in the 20s and left to t...

Today Adrian and I had our morning coffee at Acre and afterwards returned home to plan our latest adventures. I realized that when I decided that I really had to do some yoga simultaneously while returning the call to one of my famous friends Andrea Lake while in headstand for five minutes, that I am livin...

So yesterday I received about 200 messages congratulating me for the appearance of my dropback painting in the New York Times.  It was fantastic and a little overwhelming. We’re talking about my speed dials & people I haven’t spoken to in 20 years;  people I’ve just met & folks I&...