The Business of Screenwriter: Get a damn good lawyer!
4 min readMar 5, 2020
The most expensive lesson I ever learned in Hollywood.
It’s September, 1999. My wife and I are at a party in Pacific Palisades to welcome families who are new to Wildwood School, where our then only son goes to grade school. A typical beautiful southern California night, schmoozing with a bunch of Type A parents dressed in Type B clothes.
