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Thank you for the kind words during these last days and throughout the strike. I tried to do my best, even though it made me a pain in the butt to both the moguls and the WGA leadership at times. I’ll be emptying my emails and notebooks over the next few days for some final reporting and analysis, so send along any details, photos, YouTube video links and other information you think I should have. But, most of all, I can’t wait to report that everyone is back at work and that Hollywood has returned to what passes for normal. Please keep giving me your trust and your tips.
P.S. Congrats to comedienne Rachel Dratch for doing such a dead-on impression of me coughing and blurting out news that it made everyone at the WGA East awards laugh. But I do hope SNL writer Seth Meyers’ prophesy to Rachel that night doesn’t come to pass: “I don’t know how to tell you this, Nikki, but the reason we brought you up here is that we wanted to let you know that if indeed the strike is over, none of us are ever going to go to your website again.”
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Your coverage of the strike shamed outlets such as the NYT and LAT, not to mention the Guild itself. It there is a medal, you get it! Amazing work!
Hi Nikki,
Two questions I’d like to see addressed, if possible:
1. Where can I go to read an overview of this whole nasty strike? Are there any books in the works? I’m really interested in seeing a summation of everything that happened, including the after effects.
2. Whatever happened to Nick Counter? I haven’t seen his name in print in a long time. Did he screw up as badly as I think he did?
Thanks,
Jared
Hi Nikki. Thank you so much for all your hard work. Your website has been a lifeline, and I look forward to reading it every day from now on, for all the most accurate news.
God Bless you Nikki,
Raging against the machine sure ain’t easy. Thank you ever so much for your tireless efforts…
Love and Kisses,
PJ
What… no EXIT POLLS?
Thanks Nikki. And unlike Seth, I’m keeping your site bookmarked not just because of your quality work, but because SAG/AMPTP negotiations are coming soon.
I didn’t know about your site before, but now it’s part of my morning routine. I will definitely keep reading your column.
Thanks for everything!
I’m still here, and will continue to read your work daily. I’m not involved with Hollywood at all, and to be honest, I’m just a broke law student who loves watching television and movies, but I know fine journalism when I see it, and tag, you’re it!
Thanks Nikki for your tireless effort during the last four months. Not only did you provide a counterpoint to Variety but you opened up a forum where many different voices could be heard. I don’t think anybody “won”, but it sure feels like a small victory to get back to work and I wish everyone success in ’08.
I am so happy the strike is over but I will miss your tireless reporting. Many thanks from the bottom of this girl’s heart. I hope you are feeling better.
Wow….no comments 12 hours after the post. Looks like the very vocal striking writers have absolutely nothing to say now. Are you all going back to your Variety reading already?
I for one will keep reading your site long after it is over, so don’t worry.
Well, thank God this mess is over. Nikki, although I thought you were WAY to pro-WGA and had a few too many “toldja’s”, I think I speak for a lot of folks to say that you were a tremendous asset during this troubling time.
However, I think you owe an apology to Patrick Goldstein at the LA Times, who gave you some props today in his column.
Lastly, for all the information you gave us, I feel that the best and most interesting article of all regarding this strike was on the front page of today’s Times.
Thanks for all of your posts…hopefully we won’t be needing your services when SAG starts to bargain.
And thanks to you, too, Nikki. You’ve been my main source for news during the entire strike, and without your reports I would have had to just make stuff up when people asked me if I’d heard anything. So I guess by extension all the people who don’t think the AMPTP are alien vampires and the WGA are hot Martian women thank you to, even if they don’t realize it.
Good show, Nikki. Whether in LA or on the road, whether you were under the weather or feeling fine, it was great to have your insight during a very tough time. Looking forward to more.
Hi Nikki,
Thanks for all the great reporting during this tough time for the industry. It was a daily habit for me as I’m sure it was for others checking your site for the slightest bit of information regarding the strike. Sometimes the info led to the detriment of the strike as in the case of some of the leaks but that comes with the territory. For the most part this site was about giving us hope through information we often couldn’t find anywhere else. I probably won’t be checking DHD as religiously as before but will definitely do so from time to time.
Keep up the good work,
Dennis
Hey Alec, don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out… you won’t be missed.
Thank you all the way from Canada for your great reporting, Nikki. You did a great job and I’ll continuing to visit long after the strike — the Tolkien stuff has me intrigued at the very least.
Thanks again!
P.S. Lurker, the comments are moderated so new ones don’t get posted publicly until they’ve been approved by the blog administrator.
WE LOVE YOU NIKKI!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic work, Nikki.
You were (and are) a consistent voice of honesty and integrity during this whole thing – qualities, I assure you, are not taken for granted, not in journalism, not anywhere. Thank you so much for your tremendous effort. And for all of us, including yourself, keep it up!
Nikki,
Thanks for doing such an awesome job during the strike. I really appreciate it (as I know a lot of other people do) for all you did during the strike. Your reporting kept me highly informed on the in’s and out’s of what was really happening. I am one of those people that will be soon returning to work and can’t wait.
Hi NF.
Luv ya. Keep on Keepin on. I bookmarked you to favorites. Strike over.. I will keep on checkin on to DDH. Take care and thanks for all you do. I know it must be a huge pain in the ass.
-Eugene
See ya in June!
Much love to you Nikki–you are a gem. I don’t know what I would have done without your updates over the past couple months. Thanks so much for your hard work and great reporting!
Deadline Hollywood Daily was a must-read entertainment business web site before the strike and will continue to be afterwards. Newcomers are only beginning to learn about what makes some of the execs and agents cringe on Mondays.
I’m not thanking you for your strike coverage. I think it’s more important to thank you for the business coverage you’ve provided before the strike and your continuing L.A. coverage afterwards.
Your strike coverage was just more of the same excellent work that you have always delivered.
Thanks.
Good news Nikki, we managed to add the “Finke $1 Per Click Residual Rate” to the final WGA/AMPTP contract so you will be getting retroactively via PayPal $1 for every single time anyone ever looked at this site over the last three months. This adds up to $8,493,627 all for you. You can now retire to Tahiti if you want and continue reporting on showbiz from there.