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Screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh (he wrote Armageddon, Die Hard: With a Vengeance and is married to Gale Ann Hurd) extends an invitation to all WGA members on strike for post-picketing Happy Hour at his Los Angeles lounge The Griffin at 3000 Los Feliz Blvd from 5-8 pm Monday through Friday. All wine, domestic and imported beer for $1. Must present WGA card. Offer for the duration of the strike. As someone else opined, “It’s a strike, not Prohibition.”
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Nice gesture – but who is going to provide cheap drinks for writers, like me, who are not WGA members, but nevertheless won’t and can’t work these days? I’ve learned to live without health insurance, guild minimums, and all that – but I could use a drink, and won’t be making any money as long as you guys are on strike. There’s a strategic angle here, too – you could keep potential scabs drunk for the duration..?
Good for them to do this. Now, don’t wanna start nuttin’ here, but I’m a laid off IA guy, and I’ve carried a WGA picket sign during my lunch hour. And, it kinda works up a thirst…
He should be paying US for sitting through The Punisher! I kid, I kid. Nice move.
Hey, I am only two units shy of being a WGA member so I don’t have a card yet. Maybe I can pay $2 a beer?
Perhaps all the people put out of work by this strike not getting free churros and discounted drinks should picket this party. Perhaps the WGA would see who they’re actually hurting, because it certainly isn’t the studios.
Uh, I’m already drunk. Someone on the line today said that is what the old timers did in the 88 strike. I decided to give it a try.
50% off for Guild members at the Swingers on Beverly, BTW.
Hey, Julius — I bet if you go to Griffins and make yourself known you’ll have to fight off the writer’s wanting to buy you a beer. We appreciate your support more than you know — and buyin’ ya a beer would be the very least we could do.
Julius,
Let the other folks in your picket line know about the deal and I’m sure they’ll be happy to buy you a drink or four. I know I would.
there is potentially nothing more lethal than listening to a drunk writer so maybe the Griffin should be dispensing free drinks.
one good thing about this strike though is that in about 2 to 5 years the quality of movies might improve *slightly* as a result of more specs, which is what is desperately needed (not scripts by committee).
btw, the spec I’m working on is a Farrelly bros. + Bunuel-style updating of Dr. Strangelove. Farce and sex and White House shenanigans with a touch of the surreal. if you’re lucky it’ll be at a theater near you in ~2010. If it’s not, then maybe I’ll move into the Griffin.
Sweet! I live right across the street and I love that bar. Perfect after a hard day on the picket lines…
Not surprised that Hensleigh would do this. Cool guy.
Mark S.,
Since this site contains ads and you’ve just given a “logline” about your “new material,” you are technically in violation of about a dozen WGA rules. You will now proceed to the nearest picket location and do an extra 30 laps.
$1 beer? When is this going to be taken seriously?
You call this a strike? You call this Picketing?
Bring your child to strike day. Striking With The Stars, sounds like the next reality show slated to air right after Dancing with the Stars. Musicians performing!? Are you kidding? This is more like Woodstock than a labor dispute. When you see the writers on picket line they all seem so happy and jovial. But the topper, the absolute topper is that they only picket for 8 hours per day! 2 four hour shifts! Is that the limit of their commitment? 8 Hours? They are about to shut down a huge portion of this industry and purposefully sacrifice the livelyhoods of thousands of crew people and all they can be bothered for is 8 hours a day. Industry members will lose their jobs, and if this drags on long enough, they will have to steal from their own retirements savings, struggle to make the rent, disappoint their kids, fight with their spouses, some will even get divorced over this and all the writers can do is give up 2 four hour shifts? How important is this fight to you? You have made it very important to us! A picket line is supposed to stop people from crossing it. It is supposed to be disrusptive. That is the point. You are not supposed to politely step aside to let people pass unless you don’t believe in what you are fighting for. Stand in the street and stop traffic. Take the damn Jay-walking ticket and make us believe that this is important enough to you to cause us to lose our incomes! I hope this strike is settled quickly.
Less Drinking, More Negotiating!
I had no idea that he was the owner.
That bar is awesome.
what about all the people laid-off because of this strike? we have as much reason to drink as the writers.
-I’m not even a writer, and I’m gonna be there! …mostly because I live down the street and I go there every night. But, hey! -at least now I know who owns it -so that’s cool! I can finally ask why a spaceship designed to drill to the center of an asteroid had machine guns on it.
Gee! Let’s turn the strike into a party! Bring on the strippers!
Sweet sweet strike relief! Went to The Griffin and it is awesome. Nothing like putting your feet up in front of a fireplace after a long day of walking in circles. The staff could not have been cooler and there were a ton of other writers there. And did I mention the dollar beer… not just one kind but ANY kind. Thanks, Jonathan and The Griffin for making this a little more bareable.