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SAG's Strange Voyage

Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Aftra, Sag, Amptp, Breaking Entertainment News, Labor, Screen Actors Guild Strike, Hollywood Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood, Labor Unions, Entertainment News
Jonathan Handel

Where did the Screen Actors Guild go? After months of news, the guild fell off the radar screen. The quiet was deceptive however.

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SAG Hardliners' Picnic No Walk in the Park

Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, Breaking Entertainment News, Labor, Screen Actors Guild Strike, Hollywood Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood, Labor Unions, Entertainment News
Jonathan Handel

SAG President Alan Rosenberg, who spoke at the picnic cum rally, predicted "a good chance" of defeat for the pending TV/theatrical deal, but that seems unlikely if MF can only attract a handful of members to an event in LA.

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SAG Hardliners: The Trojan Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Aftra, Sag, Breaking Entertainment News, Labor, Screen Actors Guild Strike, Hollywood Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood, Labor Unions, Entertainment News
Jonathan Handel

SAG's Hollywood branch, dominated by the hardline Membership First faction, has passed a motion forming a task force to explore "acquisition of actors...

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HuffPost's Jason Linkins Discusses California's Troubled Film Industry On CNBC

Huff TV | Posted 06.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Dennis Kneale, Video, Michael Wolff, Jason Linkins, Julia Boorstin, Cnbc, Hollywood, Business News
Huff TV

Huffington Post political reporter Jason Linkins appeared on CNBC Friday to discuss the threats facing California's film industry. CNBC's Julia Boors...

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Why Buy the Milk When You're Following the Cow on Twitter?

Alexia Tsotsis | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Social Media, Digital Media, Twitter, Technology, Advertising, Laweekly, Hollywood, Media News
Alexia Tsotsis

Ad agencies now see social media as platforms to build their own content and putting a serious hurt on the buying of page views and online carriage.

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Shift Happens: Hollywood and Silicon Valley Bring It OnHollywood

Alexia Tsotsis | Posted 06.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Social Media, Internet, New Media, Technology, Laweekly, Arianna Huffington, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Alexia Tsotsis

It's high time Los Angeles and Silicon Valley broke out the peace pipe, an opportunity that presented itself at this week's AlwaysOn OnHollywood conference.

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Obama Makes America Sexier to Swedes

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

Read More: Europe, Germany, Sweden, Stockholm, Exchange Students, Rush Limbaugh, Dayton, Study Abroad, High School, Obama, Texas, Hollywood, Gays, Nordic Countries, Bill O'Reilly, 2008 Election, Foreign Policy, World News
Nathan Hegedus

Applications to study in the US are up 30 percent in the Nordic countries, and interest in Sweden has grown by 20 percent. Placement agencies are calling it "Obama fever."

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California Acts to Stop Libel Tourism

Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld | Posted 06.05.2009 | Home

Read More: Libel, Arlen Specter, Chuck Schumer, Libel-Tourism, Free Speech, Terrorism, Hollywood, California, Home News
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld

Without the Anti-Libel Tourism Act, every creative enterprise produced in California is at risk of financial destruction at the hands of foreign predators.

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Hogwash Alert: How to Survive the Pandemic of Swine Flu Scams and Swindle

Ben Sherwood | Posted 06.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Better Business Bureau, Survivors Club, Symantec, Salma Hayek, Hogwash, Malware, Scam, Swine Flu, Madonna, Spam, Tamiflu, Snake Oil, Federal Trade Commission, Hollywood, Media News
Ben Sherwood

Long before you'd ever come down with swine flu, you'll be exposed to another kind of virus sweeping the world: A global outbreak of online scams preying on your fears of the so-called aporkalypse.

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Can Hollywood Recover From the SAG Strike that Wasn't?

Earnest Harris | Posted 05.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, Filmmaking, Amptp, Screen Actors Guild, Earnest Harris, Producers, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Movies, Actors, Entertainment News
Earnest Harris

The toll of this month's long semi-strike, the 100 day long writer's strike, and the Director's Guild and AFTRA negotiations in 2008, has impacted and hurt not only our wallets, but our hearts as well.

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Moonshadows: Part 1

Grant Whitney Harvey | Posted 05.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Fiction, Sailing, Grant Whitney Harvey, Malibu, West Coast, Billy Gladsten, Hollywood, Usc, Mammoth, California, Reno Nevada, Books, Moonshadows, Living News
Grant Whitney Harvey

I Never in his twenty three years of life had Billy Gladsten made so much money. It afforded him a roomy one-bedroom apartment in Westwood, of all p...

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Solar The Sign!

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Entertainment Industry, Solar Power, Antonio Villaraigosa, Politics, Mike Bonifer, Tom LaBonge, Hollywood, Dreams, Sustainability, Gamechangers, Los Angeles, Solar Paneling the Hollywood Sign, Solar-Power, Solar-Power-Hollywood, Green News
Mike Bonifer

Solar Paneling the Hollywood Sign struck me as a beautiful, artful, symbolically powerful idea -- what I call in my line of work a 'productive game'

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SAG Board Approves Studio Deal

Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, Amptp, Breaking Entertainment News, Labor, Screen Actors Guild Strike, Hollywood Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood, Labor Unions, Entertainment News
Jonathan Handel

The Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors today voted to approve and recommend to members, new, two-year successor agreements to the 2005 Producer-Screen Actors Guild Codified Basic Agreement.

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SAG & Studios Agree to Tentative Deal

Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, Amptp, Breaking Entertainment News, Labor, Screen Actors Guild Strike, Hollywood Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood, Labor Unions, Entertainment News
Jonathan Handel

Hanging over all of this are the twin factors of the economy and new media. The troubled economy will continue to harm the entertainment industry for some time to come.

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It's Official: I'm Not Famous

Stephen Collins | Posted 05.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hollywood, Ben Affleck, State of Play, Movies, Entertainment News
Stephen Collins

Rodney Dangerfield, I feel your pain. In the new movie State of Play, Ben Affleck plays a politician named Stephen Collins. No one on was concerned about having a major character in their movie with my name.

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Take the Age: Reclaiming Your Years in a Youth-Obsessed World

Larkin Clark | Posted 05.17.2009 | Style

Read More: Ageism, Actress, Acting, Youth, Age, Hollywood, Style News
Larkin Clark

If people ask my age, I tell them. We shouldn't feel shame for getting older; we should feel pride for having gotten so far. Living, after all, isn't easy.

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Messy Blond Dreadlocks of Grace

Wendy Block | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Easter, Save the World, Homelessness, Blessings, Freedom, Rush Hour, Hollywood, Passover, Spiritual Practice, Poverty, Religion, Living News
Wendy Block

I agonized for days and resolved that from then on, whenever someone asked I would give, even if just a dollar.

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The Movie They Didn't Want You to See

Stacy Peralta | Posted 05.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Nazi Germany, Crips and Bloods, Baron Davis, Sundance Film Festival, AK 47, Beverly Hills, Film, Gangs, Los Angeles, African American, Movies, Black People, Steve Luczo, Documentary, Sundance, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Stacy Peralta, Entertainment News
Stacy Peralta

The more time I spent with gang members of Bloods and Crips, the more I began to see a far different America than the America I was raised in.

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SAG and the Studios: The Next Roadblocks

Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, Amptp, Breaking Entertainment News, Labor, Screen Actors Guild Strike, Hollywood Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood, Labor Unions, Entertainment News
Jonathan Handel

Last year proved that time is not on SAG's side. Recall that the union's then-leadership wanted better terms in new media than the other Hollywood uni...

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Michelle Is the New Bling, as Celebs Go Broke

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michelle Obama, g20, Queen Elizabeth II, Hollywood, Celebrities, Michelle Obama Queen Elizabeth, Michelle Obama Europe Trip, Entertainment News
Michael Wolff

Michelle Obama is the national star, government issue. Young and black to the queen's old and white, Michelle and the queen were nevertheless ideally matched in their studied ordinariness.

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SAG-AFTRA Ad Deal Done

Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Aftra, Sag, Breaking Entertainment News, Labor, Screen Actors Guild Strike, Hollywood Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood, Labor Unions, Advertising, Commercials, Entertainment News
Jonathan Handel

SAG and AFTRA reached a deal with the advertising industry, retaining the compensation structure for broadcast network commercials, and resisting the industry's attempt to reduce pension and health contributions.

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Dr. Ruth, Robin Leach and Ellen Degeneres all in a Lucky Week!

Wendy Diamond | Posted 05.02.2009 | Style

Read More: Byron Howard, President Obama, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Ellen Degeneres, Patti Labelle, Dr. Ruth, Beverly Hills, Dr. David Best, Robin Leach, 52nd Annual New York Emmy® Awards Gala, Humane Society of the United States, Gretchen Wyler, Bolt, London Hotel, Genesis Awards, Katie Couric, CBS’ Greatest American Dog, The Street, Disney, Www.AnimalFair.Com, Bone Appetit, Marriott Marquis Hotel, Philadelphia, Www.Petsmart.com, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Beverly Hilton, New York City, Teri Hatcher, CBS Evening News, Desperate Housewife, Susan Feniger, Nicolette Sheridan, Marley & Me, Food Network’s “Too Hot Tamale”, Portia De Rossi, Dana Delany, 60 Minutes, Celebrity Kids, Style News
Wendy Diamond

During the vegan dinner Lucky and I schmoozed with Byron Howard, one of the directors of the animated Disney hit film Bolt. Lucky spent the whole time flirting with him!

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Don't Mess With Three Stooges or John Wayne

Scott Mehno | Posted 04.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Aig, John Wayne, The Three Stooges, Remakes, The 3 Stooges, Larry Moe and Curly, Shemp Howard, The Three Stooges Remake, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Scott Mehno

The #1 sure sign that American culture is on the fritz and fading fast are announcements touting such heretical movie re-dos in the name of Hollywood hipness.

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Obama's California: The Arnold Alliance and More

William Bradley | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Meg Whitman, Solar, Antonio Villaraigosa, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve Poizner, Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles, Jerry Brown, Orange Country, Steve Westly, Green Tech, Barack Obama, Reagan Country, George W. Bush, Electric Cars, Bill Clinton, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, John McCain, John Garamendi, Hollywood, Politics News
William Bradley

President Barack Obama is back in the east after a whirlwind visit to California which pointed up his strengths and suggested some things he can do differently.

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Coffee Culture

Lester Sloan | Posted 04.18.2009 | Style

Read More: Dutton's Bookstore, Starbuck's, Coffee Bean, Hollywood, Los Angeles, LA Culture, Peets, Coffee Culture, Style News
Lester Sloan

Coffee culture is changing the rules of engagement for some residents of Los Angeles, forging a subculture that promotes a sense of community among people who remain wedded to their automobiles.

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