Defamer
On this ninth day of the strike that has reduced Hollywood to a one-story town, take a bite of that days-old, CAA-supplied churro and scroll through this morning's round-up:
· The WGA's wildly successful theme events (ShowrunnerPalooza, Striking Man, and Bring Your Kids to the Strike Day) continue today with perhaps the Guild's most ambitious effort, Picketing with the Stars, a celebrity-studded strikestravaganza kicking off at noon at the Universal lot.
As picketers conscientiously avoid drawing the attention of Universal's in-house jaywalking sentinels, they can march alongside the scores of actors who turned out in support of their cause, creating countless photo ops that will help put a horny-TV-doctor, desperate housewife, or forensic-corpse-inspector face on the strike for a general public still unclear about why their favorite TV shows are about to disappear from primetime. [WGA.org]
· Afraid for both their jobs and the survival of the serialized daytime drama genre, soap opera writers are crossing the picket line, with some scribes for The Young and the Restless and Days of Our Lives scabbing away to make sure bored housewives can continue to enjoy their stories without interruption. [Variety]
· In a report from yesterday's family-friendly picket, wisdom from the mouth of a precocious 7-year-old: "I think that (Fox president) Peter Chernin and (News Corp. chairman) Rupert Murdoch and some other people, their goal is to break the union.Rupert Murdoch is an established union buster, and he is a strong voice in the AMPTP." (OK, maybe that quote actually came from an adult WGA member. But we bet there were some clever kids in attendance who have been listening to enough of their striking parents' dinner conversation to come to the same conclusions on their own.) [THR]
· Nikki Finke is not sold on Arnold Schwarzenegger's fitness as a mediator. [DHD]
· Finding himself with too much time on his hands because of the strike, Michael Showalter is guest-blogging recaps of MTV's bisexual love odyssey, Shot at Love With Tila Tequila, for EW.com. [EW.com]
· United Hollywood receives no response when answering a Craiglist ad for a WGA member allegedly willing to pay 40 bucks for a sub-picketer. [United Hollywood]
· Can't make the picket lines yourself? Buy a "No Justice. No Scripts" bracelet or a t-shirt to show your support. (Disturbingly, men's bikini briefs may be in the works—may we suggest "I put my balls on the line for a fair internet residuals rate" for that garment's slogan?) [Strikeswag.com via LAT]
· Some of Dave Letterman's striking staff have jumped aboard the blog train. [Lateshowwritersonstrike.com]
· Snack-pushing agencies insist that they're just trying to service their striking clients by turning up at the picket lines with food, not trying to one-up each other in some kind of competition to show who can induce a diabetic coma in their stable of idling writers first. In a related story, Endeavor is expected to drop 50,000 Krispy Kremes onto the throng of hungry protestors at today's Picketing with the Stars event from a blimp circling the Universal lot. [Page Six]
Comments
Wait, let me guess. People are supposed to care about this?
Note to strikers: A) Nobody gives a flying shyt about the fact that you don't get cherries on your ice cream. B) If you can afford to strike for this long, YOU HAVE ENOUGH MONEY. Maybe you should take it out on the mindless celebrities that get paid oodles more than you to read the words that you write and look pretty, instead of welcoming them to the strike lines.
This is getting tackier and tackier by the hour... What next? Throw your first born under the truck day? Whatever brings in the media I guess.
Thank god my stories are still on air, huh?
By 'stories' I meant, soap operas. Hmmm. That didn't read so well.
Can we please stop linking Eva Longoria to this story? She is beyond obnoxious.
@Dolomite: Oh, most writers are plenty used to being out of work for a week, if not longer, you ignorant fuck.
@Dolomite:
Eat shit.
Remember kids:
They "write the story-a
for Eva Longoria"
Let's just hope only her writers and not her hair/make-up artists go on strike. She DOES look like a garden gnome au-natural.
@Dolomite: So the grocery store workers who went on strike for five months in 2003 were all millionaires by your standards.
Ugh. I went back and read the rest of his comments. Considering his record on Gawker I cannot believe he hasn't been executed over there.
@TheStarterWife: Yeah, another few days of this and you and the husband won't be able to afford those Hyde cover charges anymore.:)
Nice to see studio propaganda so thoroughly represented in the comments field. I guess it's something for assistants to do before they get laid off.
@Dolomite: What's it like, not knowing stuff? Is it fun?
@Sayser: Don't worry, she'll quit showin' up once she realizes her publicists lied about there being shiny swag bags for take home.
@artynimue1:
@Dolomite:
This is Defamer. We try harder to come up with a punch-line around these parts. Maybe your weak-ass, comedy-free comments are the toast of Gawker, but not here. Try harder, or stay on the east coast with Amy Fisher.
Love,
Tiger
...speaking of the Supermarket workers strike in 2003... remember - no one stopped eating...
@Mr-Busy: Thanks Mr McPherson. Now, scurry off so you won't miss your tee time.
If the writers are getting the blame for the strike, then the producers have scored at least one PR victory -- since they could also end the strike by, y'know, meeting the writers' demands.
@ButtBastard: Yeah, 'cause writer propaganda is the only kind allowed here, right? well, oops. I guess I was too busy eating my free bagels and didn't get the memo.
@nojo:
Or just meeting a third of them.
@Cacafuego:
Hell, not even meeting--just waving at them in public.
With this post, we bid adieu to comedian Michael Showalter, who concludes his stint as PopWatch celebrity guest blogger by recounting his adventure's on his virtual promotional tour of cyberspace today. I'm wrapping my day of world tour blogging.
Can I go on strike against Eva's highlights? Girlfriend needs a mirror and an honest friend.
Who cares about Eva's g.d. highlights? She's showing solidarity for a strike that deserves support. Power to her. Scumbag Hollywood producers pulling in $25,000,000 a year (not enough for you, Dolomite?) plead poverty while ripping off creative talent over and over. They may have friends among the bigoted and stupid on this board, but a lot more support them because they know they're next.
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