Chernin Returns To WGA Talks Friday

COMMENTS (9)

• Hope what you have to post includes a lot of comments. Kidding, of course. Thanks so much, Nikki. Hope you’re feeling better and that this kick start gets us somewhere fast.

  Comment by Caitlin — Thursday January 31, 2008 @ 9:02am PST  Reply to this post

• I hope these negotiations are for real, and not just a ploy by the AMPTP to get a waiver for the Oscars.

  I also hope you feel better and quick Nikki. You do some of the best work in understanding Hollywood.

  Comment by Furious D — Thursday January 31, 2008 @ 9:32am PST  Reply to this post

• Get better soon.

  And thank you so much for the honest and insightful postings!

  Comment by LA girl — Thursday January 31, 2008 @ 9:41am PST  Reply to this post

• Get better soon. Hasn’t been the same without you!

  Comment by Joey — Thursday January 31, 2008 @ 9:47am PST  Reply to this post

• I had that flu earlier this month. It was a killer. Just drink a lot of fruids. Hope you get better soon.

  Comment by LA LA LA — Thursday January 31, 2008 @ 9:53am PST  Reply to this post

• It blows my mind that this guy has the time to go to London, while the rest of us wonder how we are going to pay rent this month because this strike has cost us our job.

  They should be stuck in a room 5 days a week, hammering out a deal. Total BS.

  GET IT DONE!

  Comment by SD — Thursday January 31, 2008 @ 10:29am PST  Reply to this post

• Now that is the nicest thing I’ve read about Peter Chernin since the strike started. Let’s hope the rest of the moguls catch on and do the same.

  I want my people of The Unit back to work!

  Comment by Becca — Friday February 1, 2008 @ 3:23am PST  Reply to this post

• SD, yeah, god forbid that the President and COO of the biggest media/news company in the world fly to London to conduct scheduled business…

  Comment by Grady — Friday February 1, 2008 @ 7:47pm PST  Reply to this post

• Wow Chernin finally deigned to come back from London (and God only knows what he did there for a *week* and not simply the promised weekend his sycophants told Nikki which she of course dutifully posted about earlier) plus he’s making the supreme personal sacrifice of not going to go to the Superbowl?

  Color me thoroughly underwhelmed.

  You want to see impressive action, come to DC where a bunch of us (writers, fans, viewers and Congresspeople) are taking real steps to settle this nonsense now and forever.

  I’m giving up my Sunday afternoon to talk with the DC area WGA writers and a bunch of other people so that more things like this happen:

  http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2008/02/congressional-committee-urges-ceos-to.html

  I firmly stand by my recommendation that the shareholders of News Corp help Chernin the wussy get a new ‘day job’ if he’s not up to the task of making a fair and reasonable deal with the writers (and later with the actors).

  And I also recommend that those shareholders consider hiring a lawyer experienced in something called shareholder derivative actions.

  Game on Chernin…I can’t wait to see your backside and those of the other moguls parked in a chair in front of a Congressional committee talking about real money.

  S.E. Olson aka vdovault
  Moderator & Law & Order: Criminal Intent Fan Liason
  http://community.livejournal.com/wga_supporters

  Comment by VDOVault — Saturday February 2, 2008 @ 4:18am PST  Reply to this post