• the author of five major-publisher books about television and film, and one on missing and exploited children;
  
  
• an entertainment writer and film critic for Newsday and other magazines, newspapers and Web sites, and whose work has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, the Los Angeles Times, Penthouse, Premiere, American Film, Women's Day and the photography site TakeGreatPictures.com;
  
  
• a Web editor who successfully launched sites for Sound & Vision, Popular Photography and Habitat magazines, and such TV series as Stargate SG-1 and Battlestar Galactica for the SciFi Channel;
  
  
• a comic-book writer who has scripted superhero, horror and licensed-character comic books for Marvel Comics and Dark Horse Comics; and
  
  
• a humorist whose work has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Newsday,Yahoo!/MSN and elsewhere.

Fall 2009 Newsday interviews with Penelope Cruz, Lily Tomlin and Anna Kendrick, a feature on the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie, and movie reviews of Astro Boy, Transylmania, Free Style, the Toy Story movies in 3D and the Bollywood film Paa; Film Journal reviews of Paa and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and a cover story on the film 2012; and real-estate features and Web editing for Habitatmag.com.

Summer 2009 Newsday interviews with Renee Zellweger, Ed Helms and the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince stars and director, and feature stories on Futurama and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and other films and TV series; a photography Web-site feature on the new-media photojournalists of MediaStorm; Habitat interviews with illustrators Marcellus Hall and Danny Hellman; and Film Journal review of The End of the Line and interview with Harold Ramis.

Spring 2009 Newsday review of Crank: High Voltage and interviews with Denis Leary, Zachary Quinto, Steven Wright and others, plus Wolverine feature and John Romita Sr. sidebar; The Hollywood Reporter review of The Skeptic; and Film Journal Wolverine review, feature and Herb Trimpe / John Romita Sr. sidebar. Web Exclusive film review, A Wink and a Smile.

Winter 2008 Newsday interview with director Frank Miller, a feature on Watchmen, and reviews of The Spirit, Push, Chandi Chowk to China and Delhi-6, among other pieces; and Film Journal features on Frank Miller and Watchmen director Zack Snyder, plus reviews of The Spirit, Bedtime Stories, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, He's Just Not That Into You and others, including the Bollywood films Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Billu Barber and 13B, plus the feature "Don't Call It Bollywood: Indian Superstar Abhishek Bachchan Discusses his Country's Giant Movie Industry." TakeGreatPictures.com feature on the Apollo Theater.

Additionally, interviewed by CNN.com for feature on the Bollywood film industry.

Fall 2008 Real-estate magazine feature on a First Amendment issue involving a co-op board and the American flag; Newsday interview with Frost/Nixon's Michael Sheen; and Film Journal reviews including Four Christmases, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and four Bollywood movies, including Dostana.