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The SAG Negotiations: Why George Clooney, Tom Hanks and Others May Have Exercised a Faulty Strategy

Michael Russnow | Posted 02.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Tom Hanks, Sag, Amptp, Russnow, Dga, Michael Russnow, George Clooney, SAG Strike, Wga, Alan Rosenberg, Doug Allen, Hollywood, Entertainment News

The methods these well-intentioned actors have employed seem to be of a hurrying design that take the air out of the balloon of solidarity and play right into the hands of the AMPTP.

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The Moviegoer: Six Ways of Watching the Oscars

James Rocchi | Posted 02.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Oscars, The Academy Awards, The Oscars, Jon Stewart Oscars, Hollywood, Entertainment News

The dirty little secret of the Oscars is that while they're often derided and dismissed as the self-celebration of a liberal elite, they're actually more conservative than you might think.

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Writers Guild Deal: Details

Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America Strike, Wga, Breaking Media News, Writers' Strike Opinion, Breaking Entertainment News, Hollywood Strike, Writers' Strike, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Entertainment News

Want to know the gory details of the tentative writers deal now being voted on by the Writers Guild members?

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WGA Strike Primer: Settling a Final Debt

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 02.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers' Strike, Writers Guild of America, Hollywood Strike, Writers Guild of America Strike, WGA Strike, Writers' Strike Opinion, Hollywood, Entertainment News

Admiration and thanks are plentiful. But I still reserve my awe for the strike captains.

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Breaking News: Hollywood Execs Ahead of Curve

Nicholas Weinstock | Posted 02.15.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America Strike, Writers' Strike Opinion, Satire, Hollywood Strike, Writers' Strike, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Entertainment News

It's not surprising -- as has become clear in the oceanic email volume of these post-strike days -- that many writers turn out to have written scripts on spec over the past few months.

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Hollywood Begins Salvage Operation

Los Angeles Times | Maria Elena Fernandez, Matea Gold | Posted 02.15.2008 | Business

Read More: PIlot Season, Upfronts, Broadcast Television, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Strike Over, Business News

With the strike over, the salvage operation begins. Hollywood lurched back into gear this week, reviving projects sidelined by the three-month labor ...

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The Writers Strike Is Over! Hooray?

Lloyd Garver | Posted 02.14.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Too Old, Unemployed, Writers Strike, Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America Strike, Writers' Strike Opinion, Hollywood Strike, Writers' Strike, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Entertainment News

After working steadily as a TV writer for many years, I made a big mistake: I allowed some of my hair to turn gray. In the eyes of those at the studios, I was suddenly too old to be funny.

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Striking Out: Writing Without the WGA in LA

Adam Baer | Posted 02.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers' Strike, Writers Guild of America, Hollywood Strike, Writers Guild of America Strike, WGA Strike, Writers' Strike Opinion, Hollywood, Entertainment News

Most Los Angeles writers who haven't yet joined the WGA and continue to peck away at careers in writing for publication had their moment in the sun during the Writer's strike.

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American Idol Hollywood: Day One

Michael Giltz | Posted 02.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Simon Cowell, Reality TV, Pop Music, Ryan Seacrest, Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, American Idol, Hollywood, Entertainment News

Here's a look at some of the contestants who popped out and look really strong for the final 12, as well as a few puzzles.

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How the WGA Won: A Behind the Scenes Look at the WGA Strike

Roger Wolfson | Posted 02.12.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers' Strike, Writers' Strike Opinion, Writers Guild of America, Hollywood Strike, Writers Guild of America Strike, WGA Strike, Hollywood, WGA Agreement, Dga, Iatse, Writers' Strike Settlement, Entertainment News

The groundwork for the writers' strike started with something the town rarely notices: a routine, biannual WGA election.

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What I'll Miss When the Strike Is Over

Ken Levine | Posted 02.11.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers' Strike, Writers Guild of America, Hollywood Strike, Writers Guild of America Strike, WGA Strike, Writers' Strike Opinion, Hollywood, Entertainment News

The incessant honking. It was like driving in Mexico City... Hanging out on the picket line with my good buddy Elvis Costello. It was one of the greatest minutes of my life.

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Where's the AMPTP? And Do We Care?

Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.11.2008 | Entertainment

In a wonderful article, Variety summarizes the last few month of negotiation, and notes that "movement in the WGA talks began when Disney CEO Robert I...

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Notes from the Shrine: The Big WGA Meeting

Ken Levine | Posted 02.10.2008 | Entertainment

About an hour in, Patric Verrone was handed a note and announced that someone was live blogging and would they please stop it. I was worried that everyone would look to me, and I would have to say, "Hey, guys. I don't even know how to text message."

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Writers Deal: Analysis

Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.10.2008 | Entertainment

The writers faced down eight large media companies and conglomerates, and won what appears to be a decent beachhead on the Internet.

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Writers Deal: Details Emerge

Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.09.2008 | Entertainment

The Writers Guild held a closed-door meeting Friday with strike captains to brief them on the tentative deal. Here's what a source inside the room told me.

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WGA Strike Primer: The Secret Letter

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 02.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers' Strike, Writers Guild of America, Hollywood Strike, Writers Guild of America Strike, WGA Strike, Writers' Strike Opinion, Hollywood, Entertainment News

You've probably heard that the strike is over. It isn't. No, really, it isn't. The truth is, no one speaking publicly knows what the deal actually is.

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Celebrity Real Estate Losers

Forbes | Dorothy Pomerantz | Posted 02.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Celeb Real Estate, Writers' Strike, Hollywood Real Estate, Avril Lavigne, Mulholland Drive, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Sotheby's, Real Esate, Business News

Even Hollywood's rich and famous can't avoid the housing downturn that's sweeping the nation. In Los Angeles, only 4,430 homes were sold in December, ...

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Lola in Translation

Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Hopper | Posted 02.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Celebutante, Celebutard, Hollywood, Entertainment News

At age twenty-six, after about seven failed careers, I'm as lost in Hollywood as those tourists from Kalamazoo trying to find Charlize's home in Silver Lake.

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WGA Strike Primer: Crossing Paths with Carson Daly

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 02.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers Guild of America, Carson Daly, Writers Guild of America Strike, Writers' Strike Opinion, Carson Daly Strike, Hollywood Strike, Writers' Strike, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Entertainment News

Carson Daly's name still can bring a twitch to many a Writers Guild member. But he had the bad fortune to be first.

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Favored Nations?

Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.04.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers Guild of America, Breaking Media News, Writers' Strike Opinion, Breaking Entertainment News, Writers' Strike, Hollywood Strike, Writers Guild of America Strike, WGA Strike, Wga, Hollywood, Entertainment News

With a writers deal apparently in the offing, now's a time to pause and ask about favored nations.

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The WGA Strike For Dummies: It Ain't Over 'til It's Over

Michael Russnow | Posted 02.03.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers Guild of America, Hollywood Strike, Writers Guild of America Strike, WGA Strike, Writers' Strike Opinion, Hollywood, Writers Strike, Russnow, Michael Russnow, Writers' Strike, Entertainment News

It's intriguing how the writers' strike rumor mill builds everybody up and then shoots him or her down.

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My Morning with Reverend Al

Lynn Grossman | Posted 01.29.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America Strike, Al Sharpton, Writers' Strike Opinion, Hollywood Strike, Writers' Strike, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Entertainment News

Al Sharpton was in a rage. He began to scream at us on the picket line, and I mean really scream, apparently furious that we had put a moral decision between him and Barbara Walters.

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'Cautious Optimism': The Hollywood Term Meaning, 'Pssst...Everyone Pretend to Be Negotiating'

Ray Richmond | Posted 01.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America Strike, Writers' Strike Opinion, Hollywood Strike, Writers' Strike, Screen Actors Guild, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Entertainment News

If you listen really hard, you can make out the glorious sound of thawing ice. On the other hand, that could also just be the moguls rubbing their hands together.

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Movies Are ??? Than Ever

Ben Rosen | Posted 01.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Oscar, Studio, Claudette Colbert, Elizabeth Taylor, There Will Be Blood, Cleopatra, Movies, Hollywood, Academy Award, Entertainment News

Are movies better than ever? Don't know. But I do know that movies are longer than ever.

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My Time Inside a Celeb Rehab Clinic

Erin Gates | Posted 01.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Amy Winehouse Rehab, Celebrity Rehab, Lindsay Lohan Rehab, Anorexia, Eating Disorders, Bulimia, Rehab, Hollywood, Living News

It was a bizarre and horrifying experience to be filled with pure terror about having to eat while in what appeared to be a five-star restaurant.

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