Meet Hollywood's Mr. Pitch

These days, Kosberg casts his net far and wide to find great ideas. Folks from Alaska to New Zealand have pitched their movie ideas on his Web site, hoping that he might pitch those ideas to Hollywood's power brokers.

One successful pitcher was Emily Lloyd, a grandmother from Ozark, Arizona. She sent Kosberg a 3x5 card. On it, she wrote, "Are you interested in a story about a man who lives in the Statue of Liberty?" He was interested enough in her idea to flesh out the story, which he later sold to Polygram. Since then, "Keeper of the Flame" -- a story about a man who tends the Statue of Liberty's torch -- has evolved into a love story. (Michelle Pfeiffer is considering a lead role.) Meanwhile, for her one-sentence idea, Mrs. Lloyd is about $100,000 richer.