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Lately denials have been flying all over Hollywood. Warner Bros. Pictures denied that (contrary to a New York Post item) Marilyn Manson had been cast in the upcoming kiddie flick "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." The two actors' unions, SAG and AFTRA, denied that they are at war with each other. Warren Beatty's publicist denied that Beatty was responsible for the delayed production and runaway budget of "Town and Country," a much-troubled movie coming soon with Beatty, Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn...
...Manhattan and Hollywood, moguls might have preferred concentrating on the World Series, now that the dispute - between the producers of TV spots and two unions, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) - was resolved with major concessions on both sides. But the settling of Strike One simply filled folks with anxious thoughts of Strike Two and Strike Three. In a few months, contracts will expire that link actors and writers to the movie studios and TV networks. If either employee group walks, entertainment could take a billion-dollar whack...
...past 17 years, she worked for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), where she was responsible for overall coordination, planning and direction of collective bargaining activities for the national union and 30 local unions...
...Smith, Barney & Co., promising to quit in two years if he could not create new business in the virgin field of advising labor unions on investing pension funds. "Nothing happened for a year and three-quarters," he recalled. "I worked terribly hard, saw everybody, but nothing happened. Then AFTRA [American Federation of Television and Radio Artists] came in, and after that the business built very rapidly." Heimann became known as one of Wall Street's brightest young comers and began earning enough to support his wife and two children in lavish style on Manhattan's East Side...
Despite his amiability, controversy frequently dogged him. His refusal to honor his union's picket lines during a 1967 strike by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists aroused the ire of many colleagues. (Huntley argued that AFTRA is a union of "singers, actors, jugglers, announcers, entertainers and comedians, whose problems have no relation to ours.") The Nixon White House regarded him as a special thorn, and internal memorandums depicted him as a paradigm of the influential journalists who badgered the Administration. Further criticism followed his decision-after retiring from the program-to lend his anchor...