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	<title>Defamer Australia &#187; wga</title>
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	<description>Celebrity Gossip and Pop Culture from Australia and Hollywood</description>
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		<title>WGA Still Weighing Their Jay Leno Scab-Flogging Options</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/02/wga_still_weighing_their_jay_leno_scabflogging_options-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hollywood strikewatch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of notable talk show hosts made the controversial choice to cross picket lines and not grow out a strike beard during last year&#8217;s WGA strike, Jay Leno and Ellen DeGeneres among them.

Both earned the scorn of the writers they betrayed, but at least Ellen made some gesture of solidarity by foregoing the monologue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WGA Noms &#8216;Burn&#8217; Charlie Kaufman and Jenny Lumet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Buchanan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As shocked as we were by The Spirit being shut out of the Razzies, we&#8217;re a little more surprised to see two of Hollywood&#8217;s most high-profile writers snubbed in today&#8217;s WGA nominations.


Those would be Charlie Kaufman, who made his writer/director debut on the criminally underrated Synecdoche, New York, and Jenny Lumet, whose Rachel Getting Married [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WGA Hopes You Won&#8217;t Remember Who Directed &#8216;The Dark Knight&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/12/wga_hopes_you_wont_remember_who_directed_the_dark_knight-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Buchanan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[batman]]></category>
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When we received an awards consideration copy of The Dark Knight last week, there was clearly something missing &#8212; or, to be more accurate, censored with black felt-tip pen.


On both the front and back of the DVD, the words &#8220;A Christopher Nolan Film&#8221; were marked out. We initially brushed off the matter (assuming some posthumous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WGA Awards Recognise Every Half-Decent Show On TV With Its Own, Worthless Nomination</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>STV</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[30 rock]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dexter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Writers Guild unveiled its 2009 TV nominees this morning, revealing a radical shift in taste that rotated only one new drama and two new comedies into the year&#8217;s Best Series nominations &#8212; all replacing old nominees that weren&#8217;t on the air this year. Let&#8217;s hear it for attrition!


Dexter, Friday Night Lights, Lost, Mad Men [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hottest Hollywood Scab Tyler Perry Gives In, Opens Studio to WGA</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/11/hottest_hollywood_scab_tyler_perry_gives_in_opens_studio_to_wga-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>STV</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took four fired writers, a Will Smith-defied picket line, an open letter from Tina Fey (among others), and an intervention by the NAACP, but we&#8217;re happy to report that the impossible dream has finally landed at Tyler Perry Studios: The mogul is finally coming around to a deal with the WGA.


The Guild sends word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unruly WGA Mob Protest &#8216;Project Runway&#8217; Rodeo Drive Shoot</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/10/unruly_wga_mob_protest_project_runway_rodeo_drive_shoot-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Defamer operative going about his daily Rodeo Drive chores let us know about a standoff that went down this morning between the forces of good (underpaid and undervalued reality show writer-producers) and evil (Heidi Klum, and anything&#8212;sorry Tim Gunn fans!&#8212;Heidi Klum-adjacent). He writes:


This morning, about 10:45am, I was returning some clothes to the Michael [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WGA Issues Fatwa Against Cheapskate Producers of &#8216;Osbournes&#8217; Variety Show</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/10/wga_issues_fatwa_against_cheapskate_producers_of_osbournes_variety_show-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the heels of the Tyler Perry&#8217;s House of Payne labour controversy&#8212;in which WGA heads Patric Verrone and Michael Winship filed an angry grievance with the National Labour Relations Board, demanding restitution for &#8220;an abused writing staff forced to churn out sitcom dialogue with a pistol pressed to their temples by the world&#8217;s wealthiest, union-busting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Is Fi-Core: Presenting The WGA Blacklist</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/04/this_is_ficore_presenting_the_wga_blacklist-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Hollywood braces for the possibility of yet another work stoppage, this one by the actors&#8217; unions (as represented by their universally recognised symbol of a laughing hammer superimposed over a weeping sickle), the fallout from the last bitter labour war to hit our shores continues: In a &#8220;Letter from the Presidents&#8221; posted to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Clooney Withdraws From WGA Over &#8216;Leatherheads&#8217; Snub</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/04/george_clooney_withdraws_from_wga_over_leatherheads_snub-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/04/george_clooney_withdraws_from_wga_over_leatherheads_snub-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Defamer Hollywood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember yesterday when we posted about how incorrigibly charming George Clooney is? Well, according to Variety, the WGA might not agree. After an arbitration hearing where the Guild failed to give Clooney a writing credit for Leatherheads, he decided to become a Financial Core member. That means he can&#8217;t vote, run for office, or attend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Strike May Be Over, But The Struggle Never Ends</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/02/the_strike_may_be_over_but_the_struggle_never_ends-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[newVideoPlayer("returning_to_tv.flv", 463, 387,""); Due to an arcane by-law in the WGA constitution, no strike can officially be called off until one the Guild&#8217;s longest-tenured and most visible members appears on television to ritualistically recite the story of Lew Wasserman&#8217;s Toilet, in which the legendary Hollywood mogul supposedly dismissed the idea of paying residuals by saying, [...]]]></description>
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