Posts by Brian Koppelman

  • The Moment with Brian Koppelman

    Brian Koppelman and Seth Meyers discuss Seth’s departure from ‘SNL,’ how he feels about his rep as the nicest guy in Hollywood, and the debut of ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers.’

  • Me & QT: What’s Behind Tarantino Ditching His Leaked ‘Hateful Eight’ Script?

    A chance encounter and a theory about why QT shelved a promising project.

  • Jim Breuer

    My Transcendent Podcast Guest: Jim Breuer Redeems Himself on Marc Maron’s WTF

    Now more than ever, pop culture is about the small stuff — an obscure TV show, a few notes in a pop song, a tweet. To celebrate a year of micro moments, every day a new Grantland writer will highlight one specific thing — a Big Little Thing — that we won’t soon forget. Marc […]

  • Knicks

    The Knicks Suck

    It was 34 degrees in New York City yesterday, but my son Sam and I decided to spend 45 minutes in the cold walking home up 9th Avenue instead of sitting in Madison Square Garden watching the second half of the Knicks/Celtics game. I can’t offer Zach Lowe–like analysis of the statistical inequities between the […]

  • Jimmy Connors

    Jimmy Connors in 1991: The Sound and the Fury and the Startling Comeback

    It was like a Springsteen song in tennis whites. I first met my best friend and writing/directing partner, David Levien, in 1982, during the summer between my sophomore and junior years of high school. This was also the summer I began working at the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows, slinging clothes for Ellesse and sneaking […]

  • GoodFellas

    Oscar Travesties! The Boning of Goodfellas

    Look, I don’t hate Dances With Wolves. Unlike most of my film-snob friends, I actually have a soft spot for it. I remember watching it in the theater and being moved enough to want to see it again. I cheered when the tatonka finally showed up and Kevin Costner’s Lieutenant Dunbar got to ride to […]

  • Carmelo Anthony: Joy Wrecker

    So this challenge just hit my inbox from one Bill Simmons: “Yo, Koppelman,” it began, “… write a Carmelo rant for our sports blog today.” It was followed by an e-mail from Grantland editor Dan Fierman, also calling me out for “whine, whine, whining” on Twitter instead of really saying something. OK, boys, if it’s […]

  • Slash and Carlos Bernard

    The Beauty of Black Friday

    The death of online poker sites had a beautiful, unintended side effect; just ask the cowriter of Rounders.

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