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Meanwhile, the one-time president of the Screen Actor's Guild and former California governor privately socialized with old friends, among them, Jimmy Stewart and Betsy Bloomingdale...
...Writers Guild of America set new pay scales in March. An author now gets a minimum of $22,801 to do a treatment and screenplay for a low-budget film ($2.5 million or less) and $42,000 for a more expensive film. A rewrite and a "polish" can bring the high-budget price to $61,548, but a writer who has been around commands a good deal more, and fees can rise steadily with each unproduced script. Says a New York author who has sold three scripts: "If you write five a year--I get more offers than that...
...that counts, favoring the sensational over the significant. Thus, Claus Von Bulow's titillating but irrelevant trial Flogs headlines, and the case of the Rhode Island couple accused of killing their infant daughter leads the local news. The publican can blame the press, but it shares the burden of guild; when America watches television, it sees a reflection of itself...
...U.P.I.'s principal lender, refused to advance the cash needed for last Friday's payroll. U.P.I. officials insisted that the Chapter 11 petition had been considered for "several months." Nonetheless, the wire service carried a story quoting unidentified sources who said that Foothill was unhappy with the Wire Service Guild's refusal to renegotiate a labor contract and make new wage concessions. One U.P.I. official said the California company was also upset to learn two weeks ago that U.P.I. had failed to pay the IRS $1.77 million in 1984 payroll taxes...
...officials agreed to pay three times the minimum union scale of $125 to each of 200 youthful performers who had answered an ad to appear in Inaugural programs in return for expenses only. The use of freebie talent was loudly decried by three performers' unions, including the Screen Actors Guild, whose president at one time was a Hollywood star named Ronald Reagan. Worse yet, the ad specified "clean-cut, all-American types," which some took to mean whites only. In the end, the marchers were indeed largely white, but they served as a spirited, high-stepping troupe. They were scheduled...