Writers Guild of America

Ellen Cancels NYC Show Plans

AP | Erin Carlson | Posted 11.13.2007 | Media

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Ellen DeGeneres has pulled the plug on plans to tape her show next week in New York, where Writers Guild East members had vowed to protest her decisio...

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I'm Not Writing This Blog

Kate Clinton | Posted 11.13.2007 | Entertainment

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Kate Clinton

Please don't tell anyone I'm writing. Let's just say I'm journaling and then file-sharing. Otherwise there will be a huge inflatable rat outside my apartment.

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Damning Evidence In Their Own Words

Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 11.13.2007 | Entertainment

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Jon Robin Baitz

If this were a trial, the video clip you are about to see would be the sine qua non of smoking guns, the glove that fits that won't acquit, the silencing final word on the strike.

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Revolution

Laraine Newman | Posted 11.13.2007 | Entertainment

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Laraine Newman

The same mentality that's marginalized health care and education for this country in favor of "Disaster Capitalism" has found an eager student in those that run the studios.

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No One Earns! As Much As Burns!

Ken Levine | Posted 11.13.2007 | Entertainment

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Ken Levine

BURNS: Imagine, writers thinking they have rights to their creation! Don't we have individual nuclear missiles? SMITHERS: No, sir.

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Producers: Don't Blame Us For Strike

Los Angeles Times | Robert W. Welkos | Posted 11.13.2007 | Business

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With the Hollywood writers strike now in its second week, media coverage often describes the labor impasse as a dispute pitting writers against produc...

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It's Not Just the Writers' Strike, Stupid!

Steven Weber | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics

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Steven Weber

The Writers' Strike. If only it were just about them. It's way deeper: the striking writers are the nagging, enflamed tip of a much deeper, insidious infection.

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TV Blogs Show Support For The Strike By "Going Dark"

TV Week | James Hibberd | Posted 11.13.2007 | Media

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Although the Writers Guild of America 's pre-strike media campaign was criticized as sluggish, the guild's headline-grabbing series of protests last w...

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Max Follmer

Writers' Strike Leaves Hollywood's Least Powerful Out In The Cold

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 11.12.2007 | Entertainment

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Amidst whispers that Hollywood's power agents may be brokering a back channel détente to bring media moguls and striking showbiz writers back to the ...

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CBS News Writers Expected To Strike

AP | Jeremy Herron | Posted 11.12.2007 | Media

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About 500 unionized news writers could soon join their creative colleagues on the picket line. The writers, employees of CBS News television and radi...

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Writers' Strike Diary: Week Two

John Ridley | Posted 11.12.2007 | Entertainment

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John Ridley

This from a director who sees plenty of blame to go around: "The Big corps that own the studios ultimately don't care about this strike. The artist is an annoyance to the faceless giant. A blip."

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"Somebody Wrote That"

Ann Medlock | Posted 11.12.2007 | Home

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Ann Medlock

Three words, five syllables, a theme of the Writers' Guild of America. They're the perfect words for sending this writer's fist straight into the air with a fervent Yes!

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The Strike-Time Network Jokebook

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 11.12.2007 | Entertainment

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Ian Gurvitz

A street bum asks a passing businessman for some help. The businessman gives him advice instead of money. The bum makes a derogatory, profanity-laced comment.

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Slipped Disc: Why DVD Residuals Still Matter -- and Always Will

Jonathan Handel | Posted 11.12.2007 | Media

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Jonathan Handel

The fallacy in the conventional wisdom about the Writers Guild negotiations is assuming that packaged media will develop no further than Blu-ray or HD DVD. That ignores history.

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Writers Strike, Silence Falls

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics

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Barbara Ehrenreich

Anyone who's willing to stand up to greedy bosses deserves our support. A victory for one group, from Ford workers to stage-hands, raises the prospects for everyone else.

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Striking Writers Finding Other Outlets To Express Themselves

The New York Times | Joanne Kaufman | Posted 11.11.2007 | Media

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Sometimes it seems that every time the striking television and movie writers put down their picket signs, they pick up their pencils. They are writin...

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Ellen and Izzy: A Tale from the WGA Strike

Sherman Yellen | Posted 11.11.2007 | Entertainment

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Sherman Yellen

Just when you thought nothing worse could happen to Ellen DeG after her unfortunate canine adoption caper, comes the writer's strike bringing fresh grief to America's TV Sweetheart.

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Things That Struck Me

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 11.11.2007 | Entertainment

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Ian Gurvitz

Time will tell whether this will be a noble effort or a fool's errand but if you're going to ask people to stop working and stop pursuing work at least have the decency to trust them.

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Greetings from the Lower Echelon!

Eric Williams | Posted 11.11.2007 | Entertainment

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Eric Williams

The AP's Sandy Cohen offers a much-needed corrective about the economic status of Writers Guild members: Hollywood writers lead far-from-glamorous lives.

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What the Strike is Costing Us

Alec Baldwin | Posted 11.11.2007 | Entertainment

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Alec Baldwin

Strikes, and the lack of forward-thinking negotiating that results in them, costs more than money. Sometimes, they cost you friends and family, as well.

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UK Writers Union Tells Members: Don't Be US Scabs

The Guardian (U.K.) | Jemima Kiss | Posted 11.10.2007 | Media

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The Writers Guild of Great Britain has pitched into the Hollywood battle over digital distribution rights, calling for UK writers to support the strik...

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Resolve & Fortitude

Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 11.10.2007 | Entertainment

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Jon Robin Baitz

It is not just a business: It is a hard and honorable craft, screen writing. Take it from a skilled dabbler who was not born to it. It is the primary well from which all life in film begins.

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The Writers' Strike: Networked Television's First Death Match

Shelly Palmer | Posted 11.09.2007 | Media

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Shelly Palmer

Any truly meaningful percentage deal between the parties will require a level of accounting transparency that is unprecedented in Hollywood.

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Studio Notes on Picket Line Chants

Brent Hoff | Posted 11.09.2007 | Entertainment

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Brent Hoff

CHANT: "Union!" "Power!" Studio notes: Look, if you're writing for an audience of French surrealists then you've totally nailed it. Otherwise, what is the emotional hook here? Union? Power? Can't be both.

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The Writers' Strike Diary: Day Five

John Ridley | Posted 11.09.2007 | Entertainment

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John Ridley

From an entertainment lawyer: "Shame on the WGA...for putting its members in the position of having to make the determination of whether to breach their contracts or violate an ill-conceived strike rule."

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