Mortonopoulis

30 - Man Of The House 07.07.2026 4:43 ↓

I wrote a funny parenting column back in the day and I just got permission to publish it as an illustrated book called Man of the House!  check it, here: https://us.amazon.com/Man-House-Eight-Stories-Life/dp/B0H7N3S21K/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.O073Cn7DgibHIp0qJbTX2CNqeFp6P-6A3wgj2nOCG9IDvCDFW1D_d8i52i0KwJyFzuvSx-s4jHZOQkY_JGvOiIa7D32iiGuqCnkw-E3gR-c.6zAbnoTdytYJkJ8aUMCgygCsreemoz3q0Af2CqtBj3s&d...

29 - Negotiations - Supah Ritz, Vol.2 - Chapter 12 19.06.2026 17:00 ↓

Jacinda Barrett and Urban Legends...

28 - Succession - Supah Ritz - Volume 2, Chapter 11 25.05.2026 27:50 ↓

The Thin Red Line, Urban Legends: Final Cut, Morocco, executive shuffle...

27 - Celebrities, Parties and Premieres - Supah Ritz - Volume 2, Chapter 10 05.05.2026 17:52 ↓

Anne Heche, Toni Collette, Judith Godreche, Bill Clinton...

26 - The Work - Supah Ritz, Vol. 2 - Chapter 9 15.04.2026 12:49 ↓

My first movie with glimpses of James Franco and Aaron Paul in their earliest days....

25 - The Wonder - Supah Ritz - Vol. 2 - Chapter 9 23.03.2026 16:10 ↓

Richard Dreyfuss. Chris Gerolmo. Brian Cox. Bryan Singer.... and nervous breakdowns.

24 - Becoming A Player - Supah Ritz, Vol. 2 - Chapter 8 15.03.2026 16:13 ↓

Would I betray others to get ahead? I'm not sure? Would i betray myself, oh, you betcha!

23 - Supah Ritz, Vol. 2. - Chapter 7 - War Stories 16.02.2026 22:12 ↓

In my relentless pursuit of powerful Hollywood friends, I join a ski trip to Vail... I also kill a deer.

22 - Supah Ritz - Vol. 2 - Golden Boys 12.01.2026 18:20 ↓

I hire what would become one of my closest friends and rivals.

21 - Supah Ritz - Vol. 2 - Expense Accounts 31.12.2025 13:25 ↓

A love song to the LA dining scene in the 90s and the beauty of Hollywood expense account.

20 - Supah Ritz - Vol. 2 - Chapter Four - Sundance 28.09.2025 27:00 ↓

My first Sundance was a revelatoin in so many ways...

19 - Supah Ritz - Vol. 2 - The Promotion - Part 2 (Rise of the Pheenis) 06.09.2025 18:12 ↓

It took a minute to get off Mike Medavoy's desk after my promotion, and it only happened after I really started to mess things up and thought instead of getting my own office; I might get fired!

18 - Supah Ritz - Vol. 2 - The Promotion (Part 1) 24.08.2025 15:53 ↓

The slow early days of Phoenix looked a little bleak and I thought I might never find that opportunity to get promoted...

17 - Supah Ritz - Volume 2 - From The Ashes 23.07.2025 19:20 ↓

hey, now-- after taking a break from writing about Hollywood (and publishing the first 12 episodes as a book), I'm back talking about the transition from William Morris to Phoenix Pictures - an independent film financing studio run by Mike Medavoy. This is kind of a long episode as it delves into what brought me to Hollywood in the first place and the pathology that makes me tick.   It's all kind...

16 - Rites of Passage 07.07.2025 17:14 ↓

This is a story about my daughter's graduation, the insane welter of emotion it caused, and the unlikely way I made it through it.

15 - Imposters 18.06.2025 29:41 ↓

A life of childhood crime...

14 - the Creative Process 05.06.2025 17:26 ↓

I've told this story in various forms over the years - its about the power of grief, and the power of creativity - however misguided or misplaced - to heal.  

13 - Going Viral 15.05.2025 12:23 ↓

It's a story telling experiment.  Here's one from some years back.  This recording is from SitnSpin - a storytelling project in Los Angeles that was a vibrant scene for many years curated by the wildly talented, Maggie Rowe.  This is the story of the time I tried - and succeeded - in creating a viral video.

Chapter 12 - The End (Part 3) 05.05.2025 14:57 ↓

We finally get to the end of the end as the agents reveal their true vampire nature. Literally.

Chapter 11 - The End (Part 2) 26.04.2025 10:22 ↓

the second of three parts chronicling the crazy last episode that marked my final days at William Morris...

Chapter 10 - The End (Part 1) 17.04.2025 9:54 ↓

My time at William Morris comes to an end with an insane crescendo...

Chapter Nine - Agents 09.04.2025 14:36 ↓

A pastiche of some of the characters I came across at WMA...

Chapter Eight - Supah Ritz 26.03.2025 11:13 ↓

More tales from my Hollywood early days... In a land full of phonies, my roommate's cat had me pegged as the phoniest...    

Chapter Seven - The Friendship Calculus 18.03.2025 8:57 ↓

How to value a friendship in Hollywood?  Ask Martin Sheen, he probably knows...

Chapter Six -Temblors and Tumblers 10.03.2025 9:06 ↓

Lessons from the Northridge earthquake...