Writers Guild Strike

Deborah Kerr Rhymes With Star, and What a Star She Was: She Deserves to Be Remembered, Too

Michael Russnow | Posted 04.07.2008 | Entertainment

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Michael Russnow

Though Kerr was 86 and had been out of the public eye for a number of years, her film and stage career, spanning four and a half decades, had secured her legendary status in motion picture history.

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Keeping Up With the Joneses in a Career: The Worst "Ism" Isn't What You Think

Michael Russnow | Posted 04.03.2008 | Entertainment

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Michael Russnow

Perceptionism can happen to anyone, not only in the entertainment industry. We have seen careers in politics and business that appeared meteoric, only to have a misstep or loss shoot them down.

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WGA Strike Primer: The Deal Offer

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 02.11.2008 | Entertainment

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Robert J. Elisberg

No, this contract isn't great. But it has much good, some wonderful, and establishes critical precedents in New Media. And considering the alternative, it saves the Writers Guild.

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Deal To End Hollywood Strike May Come Next Week

New York Times | MIchael Cieply | Posted 02.02.2008 | Media

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Informal talks between representatives of Hollywood's writers and production companies eliminated the major roadblocks to a new contract, opening the ...

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WGA Strikers To Lose Health Benefits

Variety | Dave McNary | Posted 01.31.2008 | Business

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Before the WGA went on strike, its leaders repeatedly assured members they would retain eligibility within the guild-industry health plan for the dura...

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WGA Strike Primer: The Big Secret

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 01.29.2008 | Entertainment

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Robert J. Elisberg

The AMPTP corporations have only themselves to blame. They opened the hidden door, turned on the overhead light, and let writers inside to read the magic book.

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A Conversation with John Sayles on Labor and the Writers' Strike

Robert Eisele | Posted 01.25.2008 | Entertainment

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Robert Eisele

"The movie industry is one of the most unionized industries left. I feel a lot of what this strike is about is corporations looking at their entertainment division and saying, 'Can't we turn this into Wal-Mart?'"

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WGA Strike Losses Top $1.5 Billion

MSNBC | Michael Ventre | Posted 01.23.2008 | Business

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Now that the Directors Guild of America has reached an accord with Hollywood studios, the striking writers have returned to the bargaining table in th...

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Sources: Writers And Studios To Resume Negotiations

Los Angeles Times | Richard Verrier and Claudia Eller | Posted 01.18.2008 | Entertainment

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Spurred by the day-old employment contract negotiated by the Directors Guild, Hollywood's writers and the major studios agreed Friday to resume their ...

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A Modest Suggestion on How to End the WGA Strike: Agree That Internet Residuals in the New Contract are Not Precedential

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 01.17.2008 | Entertainment

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Miles Mogulescu

If either the guilds or the studios make a mistake in estimating the future value of the internet market, they are terrified they could have to live with that mistake for many years to come.

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WGA Strike Primer: The Endgame

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 01.15.2008 | Entertainment

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Robert J. Elisberg

The CEOs understand reality. They know they'll keep making billions with a fair contract. But not with Scorched Earth. So, that means perhaps there's another possible endgame.

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Dear Jon and Stephen: We Wait With Unscabbing Breath -UPDATE:RON PAUL TO CROSS PICKET LINE AND APPEAR ON LENO TONIGHT!

Steve Young | Posted 01.07.2008 | Entertainment

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Steve Young

While there are others who are not writers or striking who lose during the strike, that is what a strike is about: revealing the effect - the entire effect of not having the writer on board.

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Crossing The WGA Line Is Crossing The WGA Line: No Exceptions

Steve Young | Posted 01.04.2008 | Entertainment

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Steve Young

If content originates with a host, a video editor, a cameraman or the wife of a cameraman, handwritten or hand-signaled for use on the show, it's literary material and should be covered under WGA guidelines.

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Notes from the WGA Picket Line

Laurie Nadel | Posted 01.03.2008 | Entertainment

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Laurie Nadel

I dreaded the WGA strike for several reasons: The strike would make it clear that our newsfeeds could go out without writers. It was just a question of time before our jobs were phased out.

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Your TiVo Is Finally Going Back To Work

236.com | Posted 01.02.2008 | Home

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After two months of a late night blackout due to the Writers Guild strike, several hosts are going back on the air. Finally, you can resume your night...

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Why the Writers are Still Striking

Chris Kelly | Posted 01.01.2008 | Entertainment

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Chris Kelly

According to their own moronic ticker, on their own fatuous website, the AMPTP has calculated that the WGA is asking for a raise of 5%. Over three years. That's less than inflation.

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Are TV Producers Using the Writers' Strike to Reboot the Industry?

Eric Deggans | Posted 12.20.2007 | Media

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Eric Deggans

Producers seem to be using the strike to reboot the TV industry and slough off practices they've long wanted to eliminate.

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Strike Takes On Populist Tones As Writers Push For Social Change

Los Angeles Times | Jay A. Fernandez | Posted 12.19.2007 | Media

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The personal is political, as they say, and at times of labor unrest, the professional becomes even more so. In this roiling tempest of competing inte...

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Jimmy Kimmel To Return On Jan. 2 With Leno, Conan

AP | David Bauder | Posted 12.18.2007 | Media

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Jimmy Kimmel will join NBC's late-night hosts in returning with new shows Jan. 2 in the midst of the Hollywood writers strike, ABC said Tuesday. Kimm...

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WGA: No Waivers For Golden Globes, Oscars

AP | Lynn Elber | Posted 12.18.2007 | Media

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Two of Hollywood's most glamorous events are now caught up in the entertainment industry's ugliest labor dispute in two decades. The Writers Guild o...

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Leno, Conan To Come Back (Without Writers) Jan. 2

AP | David Bauder | Posted 12.17.2007 | Media

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Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien's late-night shows will return to the air with fresh episodes on January 2 after two months of repeats due to the writers'...

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NBC Expected To Announce Late Night's January Return

Wall Street Journal | Rebecca Dana and Sam Schechner | Posted 12.17.2007 | Media

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In moves that are likely to complicate the writers' strike as it enters its seventh week, most late-night shows are plotting to return to the airwaves...

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Hollywood Growing Worried That Strike Will Cancel Awards Season

New York Times | David Carr | Posted 12.17.2007 | Media

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The Golden Globe nominations were announced on Thursday, glimmering tributes to the likes of Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington and Cate Blanchett. But on t...

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Striking Writers Team Up With Venture Capitalists For Web Video Startups

Los Angeles Times | Joseph Menn | Posted 12.17.2007 | Media

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Dozens of striking film and TV writers are negotiating with venture capitalists to set up companies that would bypass the Hollywood studio system and ...

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Report: Late Nighters Eye January Comeback

Variety | Josef Adalian | Posted 12.14.2007 | Media

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With latenight ratings continuing to plunge, the betting in network circles is that several hosts will be back on the air by Jan. 7, if not sooner. N...

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