Jeffrey Wells writes a daily stream-of-Hollywood-consciousness column for Hollywood Elsewhere, which he’s been running on his own steam since August 2004 — 21 years and change.
Wells’ online adventure began with a twice-weekly online Hollywood column for Mr. Showbiz in October 1998. He wrote the same column for Reel.com from ’99 to ’02, and then for Kevin Smith (www.moviepoopshoot.com) from ’02 to ’04.
Wells reported and trend-pieced regularly for Entertainment Weekly from ’91 to ’96, and for People from ’96 to ’98. He wrote a weekly Hollywood column for the L.A. Times Syndicate from ’94 to ’99. He also penned a weekly N.Y. Daily News Hollywood column in ’93-’94. he’s also written for the L.A. Times, N.Y. Times, Newsday, Washington Post, Men’s Journal, etc.
Wells was born and raised in central New Jersey. High school years happened in N.J. (miserable) and Connecticut (less difficult). Aimless existential wandering followed in Connecticut, Boston and Los Angeles.
Wells got into journalism in 1977 with a movie/TV column for the Fairfield County Morning News, and then segued into freelancing in Manhattan in ’78. He served as Managing Editor for The Film Journal from April ’81 to June ’83; and then as an editor at the Hollywood Reporter from ’83 to ’84. He followed this with three or four years of publicity and development, and then veered back to journalism in ’89.
Two sons (Jett, Dylan), one granddaughter (Sutton, born in November 2021), two cats (Anya, Katya). Currently catching screenings in NYC, and living in Wilton, Connecticut. Still loves Paris, Hanoi, Munich, London, Prague, Savannah, Milan, Rome, et. al.