LAT science writer K.C. Cole shows up in this week's New Yorker with a story on Janet Conrad, "the woman who hunts neutrinos." Also in the New Yorker is a "Letter from California" by Tad Friend following a new kind of Hollywood producer through his life. Roy Lee watches every movie made in Asia then packages the remake rights here. He speaks no Japanese, Chinese or Korean, but has helped studios option 17 films in the past two years.