We arranged a meeting in Los Angeles with big name stars, but I had to drop the idea. I wanted to film in the local Soweto dialect that only Soweto youth can speak and believed that shooting in any other language would dilute the impact of the film.

I'm in Los Angeles, and like almost everyone in this crazy business of ours, I watched on TV bleary-eyed. Being the last film to be announced [in the category], my heart was pounding. One isn't quite prepared for something like this.

We appreciate the offer, but Los Angeles is not under consideration.

I got Maxwell just before we moved to Los Angeles,

I've driven by the port of Los Angeles and I can't imagine the whole thing is being watched for nuclear weapons. I'd like to have an IPv6-connected sensor network to every possible point of entry into the country to sense radiation and more complicated sensors for biological and chemical weapons.

Firefighters also spent part of the afternoon battling a 25-acre blaze near Lake Elizabeth in northern Los Angeles County. It's a classic Santa Ana, arriving right on schedule.