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In late 1999, I was walking down Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks with my late producing partner Sharyn Lane after a day of editing Sordid Lives. We passed the Psychic Book Store and decided to go in and get a reading. We weren’t believers, but what the hell? We needed a sign. Something. We had just taken a big risk, had shot one of the first Hi-Def movies for about $500,000 (we raised from mainly friends with money) and quite frankly, we really didn’t know what the hell we were doing. I came from the theatre which had given me opportunities in television as well as a film adaptation of my second

play “Daddy’s Dyin’… Who’s Got The Will?” for MGM. “Sordid Lives” was also based on a hit play, but it was my first time to direct a film, Sharyn’s first time to produce and although we liked our little movie,...

It's no secret that Katey Sagal has range. The actor played the big-haired Peggy Bundy on Fox's "Married With Children" for 11 years before segueing effortlessly into the role of one-eyed alien Leela on "Futurama." She's also made a few heartbreaking appearances on the ABC drama "Lost" as the woman who got away from John Locke. Still, even her biggest admirers were likely unprepared for her Machiavellian turn in the FX hit "Sons of Anarchy" as Gemma, a member of an outlaw motorcycle gang in Northern California. Manipulating her son and husband with moves that would make Lady Macbeth blush, Sagal makes for one bad mother.The actor had an edge in landing the job; the show was created by Kurt Sutter, a former writer-producer on "The Shield" and Sagal's husband of five years. But the part wasn't just handed to her. "It wasn't as easy as my husband saying, 'I've...