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...began, befittingly, with lobster tails and champagne served to picketing Hollywood writers by the secretaries of Warner Brothers studios. In the first weeks of the strike called by the 3,000 members of the Writers Guild of America against movie and television producers and the three major networks, both sides assumed the bemused air of adversaries in a genteel farce. Executives at Disney studios provided storage for picket signs in their conference room. Some writers reported to the picket line outfitted by Gucci and Cardin. One rain-shy striker arrived outside 20th Century-Fox and defiantly lofted his picket sign...
...donations. Another PIC ad, for Prison Media Project, a group seeking better job training for inmates, shows a convict at work under the headline: I MAKE AMERICAN FLAGS FOR 350 A DAY. PIC has also created promotions for the Lawyers Guild, which wants to reform grand juries, and Project Jonah, an organization that is trying to stop whale hunting...
...protect friends in the city administration. Hirschfeld, a Christian Scientist, also tried to reduce the paper's medical coverage. Fraser Kent, a respected medical reporter, quit in disgust, for this and other reasons. There was also bitterness over management's appeal for police assistance when Newspaper Guild members picketed the paper during a strike last October. Since December alone, six reporters and editors have left. The reporting staff is down to 41 from a peak...
Larry Miller '73, former director of the Quincy Cinema Guild, maintains that the distributors are aware of the violations, but don't care. "Dan Kelley of Swank [another distributor] knows everybody does it," he says...
Complaints from the professional theater operators last year centered on the activities of Quincy Cinema Guild, Films Across the River, and the Graduate Student Association Series. This year's relative calm is due less to the Council's actions than to the less aggressive tactics of the individual film societies' chairmen. "We didn't have any problems this year," says Charles Wooley, president of Quincy Cinema Guild, "because I checked the schedule with the theater managers personally...