Defamer
As this exciting and eventful first week of striking draws to a close (enjoy it while it lasts, for the picket lines probably won't stay so well-stocked with your favorite out-of-work TV stars a few weeks hence), we offer this Friday morning round-up:
· Finding Wednesday's ShowrunnerPalooza to be a great success, the WGA has even higher hopes for this morning'smore ambitious Striking Man festival at Fox Plaza, during which between 2,000-4,000 Guild picketers, hundreds of members of the media, and countless News Corp employees idling in traffic jams will join together to form an hours-long protest community and listen to an acoustic set by Tom Morello (we were just joking about the Rage performance last time, but now it's for real). At the conclusion of the event, a 50-foot tall effigy of Rupert Murdoch constructed from surplus picket signs will be burned to the ground, a dramatic expression of solidarity that will be cheered wildly by the thousands of red-shirted strikers who tossed matches into the pyre. [THR]
· Will studios turn to the U.K., where the WGA has no jurisdiction, for stopgap screenwriting labor? Beware the Blighty Scab Menace! [Variety]
· Why They Fight, Multilingual Equine Stars Edition: "'This morning, I picketed with an 86 year writer, who wrote for 'Mr. Ed.' He said, 'It pisses me off that that fucking horse wound up speaking Italian, Polish and Rumanian, and I never made more than a nickel.'" [United Hollywood]
· TV's favorite sitcom Neanderthals should be grateful for the strike, which probably will push the show's inevitable cancellation date back a bit. [LAT]
· An anonymous producer wants to collect the names of everyone who's lost a job due to the strike, then mail it off to WGA and AMPTP presidents Patric Verrone and Nick "Why Does That Pretty TV Doctor Think I'm A Weiner?" Counter, hoping to shame them into restarting negotiations. [DHD]
· Candy Spelling makes her pitch to become a strike mediator. Also: pie sounds delicious right about now.[Scribe Vibe]
Comments
Rock the fuck on, Mr. Morello.
Sounds like last night's episode of 30 Rock. Are TI and Fall Out Boy also going to be there?
@TheStarterWife: No, but somehow they are working in cross-promotion for "Bee Movie".
I've never noticed before how much Murdoch looks like Palpatine.
Zach De La Rocha performed with Morello. I also shook Jesse Jackson's hand and saw Dannis Haysbert, Tom Arnold, and Larry David. I really wish I could've gotten Dennnis Haysbert to change my voice mail message. "He may not be available right now, but All State sure is..."
Oh, and I got a free churro from CAA (The assistant handing them out was calling them crullers, but they were obviously churros. Stupid assistant).
Best. Strike. Ever.
also Seth McFarlane ("Victory is ours!"), Rainn Wilson with half the cast of The Office, Kal Penn (with some other unmentionables from House), Dangle & Junior from Reno 911! and a veritble who's-who of character actors, scruffy writer types and gawking Fox employees. Good. Times.
CAA is handing out churros while other agencies are bringing down sandwich platters, donuts, etc?
For shame CAA, for shame.
(Rumor has it though that Innovative Artists - same agency that tried to yank the assistants' benefits in June - fired all their Lit assistants yesterday in a strike related cost move.)
Four thousand writers, actors, friends, neighbors, agents, managers, union brethren from the Teamsters, a nurses' union, unions I've never heard of...
It was good times, people. It was inspiring. See you all on the picket line Monday.
I was told the churros were from UTA. Seriously, though, churros? Is this a rally or Califorrnia Adventure?
I had a William Morris bagel. Does that make me a client?
@TheStarterWife: @Big Money, No Whammies: If those really are CAA churros, you do know what the secret ingredient is, don't you?
...and somewhere, perhaps Rupert Murdoch will suddenly begin to smolder slightly.
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