Editing Rod Lurie (section)

==Early life and career==
The son of internationally syndicated cartoonist [[Ranan Lurie]], he was born in Israel but moved to the United States at a young age, growing up in [[Greenwich, Connecticut]], and [[Honolulu, Hawaii]].

Graduating from the [[United States Military Academy]] at [[West Point, New York|West Point]] in 1984, he served in the U.S. Army as an [[Air Defense Artillery Branch|air defense artillery officer]], then became an entertainment reporter and film critic, including stints at News12 in [[Norwalk, Connecticut]], the ''[[New York Daily News]]'', ''[[Premiere (magazine)|Premiere]]'', ''[[Movieline]]'', ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', ''[[Los Angeles (magazine)|Los Angeles]]'', and talk radio shows at [[KMPC]] and [[KABC (AM)|KABC]], where his tactical on-air bets with [[Martin Landau]], [[Mel Gibson]] and [[James Cameron]] that they would win the Oscar resulted in them having to pay up at the [[Academy Awards]] ceremony by publicly thanking him in their acceptance speeches.

As an investigative reporter in the entertainment industry, Lurie's discovery of unethical and illegal practices at tabloid newspapers gained him national exposure on programs such as ''[[60 Minutes]]'', ''[[Entertainment Tonight]]'', ''[[Larry King Live]]'', ''[[Nightline (US news program)|Nightline]]'', and ''[[Geraldo Rivera|Geraldo]]''.{{citation needed|date=March 2025}} His irreverent style, however (he once described [[Danny DeVito]] as a "testicle with arms"),<ref name=S>{{cite web|website=[[Salon.com]]|url=https://www.salon.com/2010/03/10/white_baumbach/|title=Banned from the screening room!|author=O'Hehir, Andrew|date=March 10, 2010}}</ref> often raised controversy and got him banned from screenings.<ref name=S/>

In 1995, Lurie's book ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Moviemaking, Con Games, and Murder in Glitter City'', was published by [[Pantheon Books]].<ref>{{cite web|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-06-18-we-14534-story.html|title=Real-Life Killings in the Reel World of Hollywood : Publishing: New book contains all the ingredients of an intriguing drama--wealth, con games, movies and murder.|author=Martinez, Marilyn|date=June 18, 1995}}</ref>