Cautious OptimismWatch, Day 2: WGA Trying Not To Get Excited Until A Contract Is In Hand

By Mark on February 6, 2008 at 4:45 AM


On this second day of the New Era of Cautious Optimism ushered in by Friday’s “informal” bargaining session between Writers Guild negotiators and studio CEOs–when WGA West president Patric Verrone’s repeated striking of Disney’s Bob Iger with a foam EncounterBat™ led to a critical, tearful breakthrough on the matter of streaming video payments– the LAT reports that the Guild’s West Coast board has “reacted favorably to the outlines of a pending agreement” between the warring factions. Still, they refuse to uncork the Moët until everything they’ve fought for is actually in contract form and put to a vote that could–dare we say it? yes, we will dare–happen as early as this weekend:

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