For first-time screenwriter Graham Gordy, being tapped by Mike Meyers to co-write his new self-help-satire-meets-
potty-joke-jubilee, The Love Guru, was both outrageously good fortune and a serious master course in the science of funny.

Gordy, an NYU graduate, first hit Meyers' radar after the SNL alum and Austin Powers creator read a comedy script he'd co-written. After a series of in-person meetings, the two embarked on what would become a four-year process to script The Love Guru.

The new film version of the classic '60s small screen spy-medy Get Smart gives fresh worth to that shopworn saying, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” While the original show, created by comedy luminaries Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, was driven largely by keen jesting in the face of taut national paranoia during the Cold War, the new adaptation, written by Matt Ember and Tom J. Astle finds itself, some 40 years later, making fun in the midst of an era of high national anxiety at the hands of global terrorism.

Michael McCullers was just another freshly-minted Yale grad with no purpose when Mike Myers changed his life. No, this isn't an early plug for the impending Myers' pic The Love Guru -- it's the true tale of how McCullers, the screenwriter and first-time helmer of the new comedy Baby Mama, starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, chanced into his start in show biz.

You're baby is being born. It's coming out," Reeves excitedly said to Ayer as he introduced the film.

"I just want to thank Keanu because he hired me. He came attached to this project. He took a gamble on me," the director told us.

The multi-talented and prolific John Wirth has seen a thing or two as a successful veteran of the TV biz. Beginning as a writer on the '80s hit Remington Steele, Wirth's illustrious career has grown to include producing stints on The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Picket Fences, Nash Bridges, The District, and Love Monkey. Wirth's showrunning knowledge is so expansive that in 2004, he headed a Writers Guild, West committee in the publication of Writing for Episodic TV: From Freelance to Showrunner, a 55-page guidebook that imparts invaluable wisdom about the television industry to freelancers, staff writers, and exec producers alike.