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Members of the National Lawyers Guild were on hand to make sure the protesters were treated fairly by the police...
...could see Clarice as an apt emblem of women in American movies. Patronized and endangered. Deemed too small, too soft to show muscle at the box office. Working -- or, more often, not working -- at the whim of the men who make the movies. According to the Screen Actors Guild, only 29.1% of all feature-film roles in 1989 went to women. The average male SAG member earned 60% more than the average female; of actors in their 50s, men earned 150% more. "It looks to me as though females get hired along procreative lines," says Carrie Fisher, actress (Star Wars...
...News not to carry the newspaper while it is being put out by replacement workers ("Out of Town to Stop Selling Daily News," January 23). We are of course still bitter that this newsstand decided to sell The News for almost a month before being convinced by the Newspaper Guild of New York to refuse this "scabloid." Our father, Joel Burstein, a lifelong newspaperman in New York using the name Joel Burton, worked at The News from 1966 until the management lockout began on October 25, 1990. On November 2, 1990, the eighth day of the lockout, he collapsed...
John S. Laughlin, assistant to the president of the Massachusetts AFLCIO, said union representatives decided to call off the protest because they had arranged talks between Sheldon Cohen, owner of Out of Town News, and the Newspaper Guild, one of the nine unions involved in the Daily News strike...
...Tanii responded ambiguously, "Something like that shouldn't emerge. Filmmakers must create films that are inspirational, that will be enjoyable for everybody." Many interpreted his answer as a chilling assertion that future Universal film projects must meet home-office approval. Said a startled George Kirgo, president of the Writers Guild of America, West: "What does that mean, 'inspirational'? To be told that there are going to be restrictions for writers is appalling." Two days later, though, Tanii, who apparently had been caught off guard, clarified his response: "There should be no misunderstanding of Matsushita's position in this important area...