Hollywood Scribe is the online home of veteran Hollywood entertainment journalist Michael Goldman. Explore this site to learn about Michael, his work as a book, magazine, and newspaper author/editor, and multimedia interviewer, as well as the writing/editing/podcasting/consulting services he offers entertainment and media publications, Web sites, and companies.

Michael Goldman is an award-winning, veteran journalist and author who specializes in covering feature films and

Michael Goldman

entertainment for both consumer-oriented and technical-oriented print, online, and other media. After graduating from Brandeis University, Michael launched his career in radio and, back in the day, hosted a sports talk show in the Riverside, California, market before transitioning into print, and later, online journalism. He has been a sports writer, sports editor, news editor, entertainment editor, and editor for a wide range of publications, including the leading Hollywood trade publication, Daily Variety, and the award-winning film journal, Millimeter, for which Michael served as Senior Editor for 12 years, interviewing most of the world’s leading filmmakers. Currently, Michael is a contributing writer to another acclaimed film journal–American Cinematographer magazine.

Over the years, he has also penned articles for The Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Orange County Register, Editor’s Guild Magazine, Animation magazine, Cinescape, Film & Video Magazine, Filmmaker magazine, and several others. Michael is currently penning a major book for publication from Abrams Books in 2012 about the filmmaking techniques of legendary director Clint Eastwood–Master Filmmaker at Work: Clint Eastwood. It will be his fifth book, all associated with major entertainment brands. They include the behind-scenes movie book for the 1995 film, Mortal Kombat; fan books for two major television shows—24: The Ultimate Guide (Michael also edited another book about 24 called 24: Behind the Scenes), and Heroes Revealed; and a coffee-table book called Reality Ends Here: 80 Years of USC Cinematic Arts—a history of the world’s oldest and most famous film school.

Michael’s podcast interviews with leading filmmakers can be found across the Internet, and you can also read his ongoing industry blogs: Art of the Craft, at the American Cinematographer web site, about the collaborative process between cinematographers and their colleagues, which you can find here; and From the Trenches, about the art and science of media production and post-production, at the Pro Video Coalition Web site here.

Michael lives in Los Angeles with his wife Bari, where he spends his spare time trying to catch up to their two sons, Jake and Nathan.

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(phone/fax) 818-764-2110