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This year's Aspen Shortsfest, an Academy Award qualifying festival for short films, screened 70 shorts from April 8-13 and hosted a variety of panels with filmmakers, screenwriters and actors. A special presentation called "Writing for the Screen: How to Create Characters and Keep Your Friends" featured screenwriters and jury members Craig Borten ("Dallas Buyers Club"), Peter Blake ("House M.D." "Elementary," "Hemlock Grove"), and David Pollock ("M.A.S.H."). The panel was moderated by Denver Post film critic and fellow juror Lisa Kennedy and had the trio discussing their humble beginnings, their writing processes, and anecdotes about their projects. Here are ten highlights from the panel. Peter Blake got into the entertainment industry because of his love for "Pulp Fiction." "I went into it, no reviews had come out yet, and I came out and was just completely blown away by that movie. I came out thinking God what am I doing in law school?...

Aspen Film has announced the lineup for its upcoming Shortsfest, to run April 8-13th. The films cover a range of genre and styles, and hail from thirty different countries. Audiences will also be treated to events featuring filmmakers, screenwriters, and actors. "Our 2014 season explores a truly global array of characters, situations and subjects," says Aspen Film Co-Director George Eldred. "From our festival seats we travel together to all seven continents--even Antarctica--to experience the imagination of our talented filmmakers and their creative risk-taking. We look forward to sharing the thrill of discovery with our audiences this spring." Among the special events is a conversation entitled "Writing For the Screen: How to Create Characters and Keep Your Friends" with screenwriters Peter Blake (Elementary, House M.D.), Craig Borten (Dallas Buyers Club) and David Pollock (M*A*S*H), on Saturday, April 12. For the full list of special events and the schedule...

Usually I write about film-related subjects, but I just spent a happy weekend devouring David Pollock’s biography Bob and Ray: Keener Than Most Persons (Applause Books) and feel impelled to spread the word about this wonderful and exceptionally well-written book. An Emmy Award-winning comedy writer (with his longtime partner Elias Davis), Pollock clearly spent a great deal of time preparing this thorough and empathetic volume, which not only charts the durable careers of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding but paints a vivid picture of the broadcasting world in which they thrived—first in Boston, then in New York, and across the country in the waning days of network radio. ...

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Stw Group’s field marketing specialist Smollan Australia has made several new senior appointments.

The announcement:

Sydney, December 7, 2012: Smollan Australia, part of Stw, has announced a raft of senior appointments as

the global field marketing specialist seeks to further establish its Australian footprint with local expertise.

Leading the charge to expand the company’s Australian presence will be David Pollock, who has been

appointed as CEO, based in Sydney. With more than 16 years experience in the Fmcg/Cpg industries, Pollock

has broad and proven skills in Shopper Marketing, Trade Marketing, Field Marketing, Account Management

and Sales.

Most recently Director, Client Service, with Crossmark Asia Pacific, Pollock has worked with

multinational organisations through to smaller start-ups, including a three-year stint living in Malaysia running

16 Asian markets. He joins existing Smollan Australia Managing Director Dean Saul in the leadership team.

“I am incredibly passionate about delivering against client’s expectations and...

Rudi Stein's Little League career took him to Japan. Now, the man who played the hapless pitcher in "Bad News Bears" is looking to head to Washington, DC.

David Pollock, who starred all three original "Bad News Bears" film -- and famously leaned in to get hit by a pitch -- has spent a post-film career working for Rocketdyne, dealing with Nasa and the military, and in city politics in his home of Moorpark, California. He's now running for Congress as a Democrat in the new 26th Congressional district in California.

According to his campaign website, he has been an elected official in the city for 17 years, on both the City Council and Board of Education. He was elected to the California School Board Association, of which he later became president.

"There's too much rigid ideology in Washington, D.C.," he recently told the Ventura County Star. "There is a lack of compromise,...

Rudi Stein never had much luck on the field as a member of the "Bad News Bears."

But David Pollock - the man who played Rudi as a youngster - is now hoping to hit a home run in Washington, D.C.

Pollock, who played the nervous, often-getting-hit-by-a-pitch-on-purpose, glasses-wearing Rudi in the three "Bad News Bears" films in the late '70s, is running for Congress as a Democrat representing California.

According to Pollock's campaign website, the 50-year-old politician has "served as an elected official in Moorpark ...

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