Hollywood

Neal Baer

The Crusading Wonk Behind SVU and Under the Dome

The novel may be Stephen King’s, but Under the Dome is the perfect conceit for Neal Baer. If you caught Monday night’s pilot episode of the new buzzy show on CBS that Baer is showrunning and producing (alongside King and the other Steve, Spielberg) you saw an entire town closed off from the rest of civilization by a mysterious, impenetrable shield. No one can leave, no one can enter. It’s Baer’s dream come true.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t mean to suggest that Baer is claustrophobic or that the Denver …

by Andrés Martinez |

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The American Way of Teeth

How Hollywood and Huckster Dentists Convinced Us That Our Choppers Shouldn’t Look, Well, British

by Hugh Aldersey-Williams |

I remember once seeing a British television documentary on the Cold War in which the cameras were admitted to a bunker built for the use of a U.S. congressman in …

New York Times Hollywood Correspondent Michael Cieply

The Journalist-Turned Producer-Turned Journalist’s Story

Michael Cieply is the Hollywood correspondent for The New York Times; a longtime reporter, he also spent a period of time producing films for Sony. Before participating in a panel on infotainment …

Learning Journalism From TMZ

Those Who Cover Politicians Could Take Some Big Lessons From Those Who Pursue the Kardashians

Producing journalism about politics requires reckoning with entertainment culture and the journalists who cover it. Entertainers almost routinely become politicians, or at least flirt with the idea. Entertainment TV shows …

Generosity Water’s Jordan Wagner

It’s Easy Being Me

Jordan Wagner is the founder and executive director of Generosity Water, a nonprofit that drills wells in Haiti and around the developing world. He is also producer of the documentary …

My Getaway Car

War Reels, Liquor Store Holdups, and My Exploits on the Rails

By Manuel H. Rodriguez |

World War Two, which started when I was 11 years old, was a difficult time for my family. Housing became scarce, particularly for a household of ten. I was the …


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