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HBO, InStyle/Warner Bros, Universal and more are busy canceling their Golden Globes parties right now. WGA may still picket what’s left of the telecast Sunday night.
I’ll have a complete writethru, with all of today’s twists and turns, later tonight.
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PISSED OFF, I do understand your anger about the Golden Globes ceremony and the after parties being canceled but we have to get through the looking glass people.
This hurts all the vendors who make their living off of the awards season. It doesn’t seem fair that my union should inflict so much pain on the masses. However, I wish it was that easy to blame the victim. (WRITERS/WGA)
How many times have my union got on their knees and sodomized the AMPTP to come back to the negotiating table “please like me, really really like me” and this was to no avail.
There is hope for us all because this isn’t a divorce it’s a grudge match. All the AMPTP has to do is talk to the WGA again at the negotiation table. I know we can make a deal if we go back to the table to end this strike. No matter what names and strong arm tactics either side uses it should not impede both sides from slugging it out around the negotiating table until both sides come to an agreement. Nobody leaves the room until this is achieved. Period.
Nobody wants this strike to last any longer including the AMPTP.
We are all in this town together like it or not and we do have a responsibility to our fellow workers, employees, fans, children, husbands and wives to bring this strike to a quick end.
Fuck, flip a coin if you have too like the NFL does On Any Given Sunday for Christ sake. Heads we get animation tails we lose animation. Tails we get reality – heads we take reality off the table. Then with the New Media we actually negotiate like grown ups a fair contract.
Remember, the consumer is going to foot the bill anyway by paying two to ten cents more for downloads. The Ad Agencies and media buying companies can just as well increase their rates of streaming video by ten cents as well and that would be for the DGA, WGA and SAG.
Think clear people it doesn’t have to come directly out of the AMPTP bottom line if you add on the new cost to the consumer Et. AL.
Call it a tax hike.
I don’t care about the Golden Globes!!!!!!!
How about those other side deals with the WGA?????
Any word on whether or not John Ridley was a last-second host for the Globes?
Didn’t the WGA already say they wouldn’t picket a non-televised Golden Globes? And now they’re going back on their word and picketing anyway. This is NOT doing any favors for their image.
WGA should host their own parties, hand out a few awards, get folks to nod silently in agreement, then everyone drinks too much and has a hell of a time. For a night. Maybe even let loose with some impropriety. Shag a studio mogul, or their spouse, if you can find one. What the hell, you may never get another chance and fatigue makes humans of us all. Then the next day, even with a hangover and the shame, everyone who was at the party, sits down and starts talking.
NBC is losing $10 million dollars in ad revenue? Now that’s what I call success for the WGA.
But I wouldn’t picket the parties or press conference. Take the high ground WGA. You won this battle. Let them sit there and ponder their losses.
As a journalist and writer I am appalled at the attitude the WGA is having at this point.
Many actors and writers were right stating these people went into the strike without any plan whatsoever on how to resolve it. When you get into a strike you’ve got to have a plan on what gets you out of it. And these people just don’t, they think that only their point of view is what needs to be considered. Well wake up, negotiation is called such because it’s based on compromise. It’s not just the studios/networks that need to compromise, the writers need to do so just as much. A little bit of responsible behaviour here wouldn’t hurt.
The absolute disrespect for all the people who are paying the actual price for this (the crew workers and the everyday workers at a much lower level for shows) is making me sick. The writers are hitting the pockets of people who need this job to make their families survive. And they don’t care one bit about it. I completely understood the need to raise the issue and make a stance. But that’s been done abundantly by now, and I really see the writers becoming the side that is wrong at this point.
The writers have made their stance, we got it, the whole world saw it. It’s now time to sit down at a table and be a LOT more reasonable. Picketing the press conference? I second what was said above, it is CRAZY. If the writers think they can garner sympathy and respect with this sort of attitude, they’re sorely mistaken.
Congratulations, WGA. Who knows whether the WGA’s leaders are pursuing an effective negotiating strategy, but clearly their cause is just, and the only people who are suggesting that the WGA water down the strike for the sake of a meaningless, corrupt award program is clearly no friend of workers rights.
Yes. They cancel the “telecast” but their still having a red carpet and announcements. YES WE WILL PICKET. YES WE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT. THEY ARE LOSING AD DOLLARS. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT TO HAPPEN. We want our fair share and until they give us that. WE WILL FIGHT. You don’t like it ‘pissed off?’ Stay home and turn off your tv and your computer.
Like we really need actors who are nothing more than walking Italian billboards, to be herded by their stylists and publicists (barking urgently into their headsets), down yet another red carpet…having spent a full day being followed by ET in “preparation” complete with the Spa commercial.
The stars become models for anyone with swag.
Questions begin with the gown’s designer. Actual talk time about the film? Seconds.
Enough already. It’s just not that interesting.
Please. The writers just want to get INTO the parties.
“pissed off”: nbc is the VICTIM now? how do you come up with that? they’re the ones refusing to negotiate.
But they don’t strike the NON UNION critic’s choice awards?
I have a friend at NBC who says this ‘fiasco’ is costing NBC at least $10 million in ad revenue. Any idea how many streaming video residuals that would pay, Jeff? Hello, moguls, is it really just about winning at this point? Give the writers a fair share!
Comment by zuckersucks — January 7, 2008 @ 6:44 pm
Could someone please explain this mentality?
Waste upwards of 10 mil to teach the writers “a lesson”?
How is that cost not to mention fan enmity (before ANYONE blames the writers, note that we’re ready & willing to go back to negotiations, whereas the AMPTP refuses) worth it?
Just doesn’t make rational business sense to me.
Be a (smart) Man, Jeff!
Sign a Deal!
If the Golden Globes is a press conference, do the nominees show up for this? Not sure I get it. If they do, everyone should show up wearing black and red strike colors in solidarity.
Picket. Picket everywhere. Picket every chance you get. That’s how you turn the heat up and that’s how you make sure the strike stays current.
If you think this will end by doing things the same way as it has been done for two months, then you really don’t get it.
Resolution will only come with ramping up the intensity. Sign more and more side deals and picket like there’s no tomorrow.
The next step: Picket the viewers watching Leno, Stewarts, and the Golden Globes press conference.
This actually saves the studios (except NBC) lots of money in talent travel, stylists, and parties. Just a huge vanity-fest for the talent anyway.
Does the WGA just not have anything better to do? (how about getting back to the tables and get this town back to work!)
All you can do is to shut down the awards show so the shows and the people that worked on them (before the Strike) can get their awards. Common WGA get off your ass and get to the real deal and that is a CONTRACT that will put your writers back to work and the rest of this town back to work.
The Globes may be only the beginning.
A West Coast source I have says the WGA will send members to Phoenix and picket the Super Bowl, which could threaten that game (or at least TV coverage of it)!
They may hope to keep Fox from broadcasting the game or perhaps force the NFL to cancel the game entirely!
I agree with Pissed Off. Public sentiment is taking a turn. I actually like the revamped Golden Globe idea. Who needs an awards show. Dateline profile, simple press conference handing out awards with no boring speeches, and a sexy after party -
Dear Jeff Zucker,
What happened to you? In reading your Wikipedia biography, it talked about how you were the guy who was smart enough to wring 8 extra years out of the “Friends” franchise by financially rewarding the talent, and then farther down, it talks about how you were diagnosed with colon cancer at 31, and have battled two bouts of it. You were responsible enough to your shareholders that you went above and beyond the call by scheduling your chemo for Fridays, so you’d be back at work on Monday.
At one time you believed that the artists were important, and deserved to share in success. At one time you cared about the people who invest in GE stock.
In fact, you are quoted as saying, in regard to your cancer experience, “It put my life into perspective,” he says. “I want to win and win honorably.”
Jeff, what happened to you? When did you change?
Good for them. I’m glad that they are sticking to their guns. I just want to let them know that there are SO MANY fans who are on their side.
Globes cancelled is no big deal. When the Oscars are cancelled then WGA & SAG will get the studios attention. BTW doesn;t the producers realize that SAG is rolling out the blueprint for its own strike in June by not allowing its members to cross the picket lines? How many more signs and casualties most we endure before the producers make a deal? Also, with the mounting losses in the LA economy from this work stoppage, how come there’s no federal, state or local intervention to get these two sides back at the table? Why can’t we all just get along?
This is all posturing for the Academy Awards setup….