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Chief Negotiator In Limbo as SAG Board Implodes
1:50AM STV | Conflicting reports emerged late Monday from SAG’s emergency national board meeting, where at least one member says Doug Allen is out as the union’s chief negotiator. More »
Actors at Each Others’ Throats as SAG Strike Threat Fades
5:25AM STV | SAG’s protracted pursuit of a strike authorisation vote may end as early as tomorrow, with the bitter aftertaste of a secret awards blacklist lingering in an emergency meeting underway at union HQ. More »
SAG Delays Strike Vote Two Weeks In Landslide Vote-Delay Referendum
2:00AM Seth | As pro-strike SAG members gathered around their mediation menorahs to light a tiny Eric Bogosian head on fire, thereby commemorating the second night of Yea-nukkah, they were met with a shocking development: More »
SAG Celebrity-Standoff Holiday Cards: Joyeux No-el and Happy Yea-nukkah!
3:20AM Seth | We thought a fun way to keep track of where celebrities stand on the impending SAG strike would be with some printable holiday greeting cards! More »
Fox To Dump High-Maintenance SAG For Cheaper, Sluttier AFTRA
8:15AM Seth | A rumour that Twentieth Century Fox Television—producers of some of your most beloved stories, including 24, My Name is Earl, and Family Guy—would be switching over to an all-AFTRA format got this official response: More »
SAG Warfare Escalates as NY Insurgents Call For Leaders’ Heads
1:45AM STV | Hollywood awoke Tuesday to more graphic evidence of sectarian violence in the SAG ranks, with namecalling, dogma and even allegations of brainwashing feeding the union’s race to strike-fuelled self-destruction. More »
A-List Faction Kindly Asks SAG Not to Totally Destroy Hollywood
6:29AM STV | A sturdy cross-section of topline Hollywood talent from Tom Hanks to George Clooney to René Auberjonois today urged SAG leadership to back down from its ’09 strike threat. Maybe even more noteworthy: Who’s missing? More »
SAG Schedules Strike D-Day for Jan. 2
5:58AM STV | “Happy 2009 — let’s take the year off,” will come the refrain from SAG headquarters next month, as the union today announced Jan. 2 as the date it will send out strike authorisation ballots to its 120,000 members. If the Guild can coax 75% of them to approve, the actors could be walking off the job — and paralysing Hollywood — by the end of January. More »
SAG Vs. Studios Getting Nearly As Ugly As Waxman Vs. Finke
6:56AM Seth | Just days after we learned the kinda-sorta true details of a secret summit called by SAG president Alan Rosenberg and attended by the A-list dons of Hollywood’s acting Cosa Nostra, tensions between the union and producers have reached a rolling boil. With 120,000 strike-authorisation ballots being readied for mailing—each sealed individually by the scarred, arid tongue of Rosenberg himself—both sides have issued blistering written attacks accusing the other of the kind of selfishness typically associated with junket reporters asking innocuous questions of Philip Seymour Hoffman. First came a Rosenberg-penned missive on Thanksgiving eve, in which the blustery thespians’ rights crusader rebuked producers for relying on that old “there’s a gigantic recession coming” excuse: More »