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...boys, I was working up in the Catskills, as a waiter and the maitre d' at the Paramount Hotel. I was doing theater, and it was a very difficult situation, especially in New York, where you couldn't be an extra unless you were part of the Screen Actors Guild. I was making no money. We agreed - my girlfriend Alice and I - to take some pictures in the deluxe wing of the Paramount. We knew women could do Playboy and that might lead to a career in theater, film. I thought I would try it out and at least...
...Alarm bells Authorities had another warning in 1999, when MSS' licence was suspended after one of its staff was arrested for handling four babies stolen from a hospital. He passed the children to another adoption agency, Madras Social Service Guild, known as MASOS, which has also sent children to Australia. Charges against the agencies were dropped, since it could not be proved they knew the children were stolen; both had their licenses restored...
...appeared in more than 100 films. His television work also had a fatherly bent, as in the short-lived series Life with Father and Father of the Bride. His best- known TV role was the neighbor Gordon Kirkwood on Mr. Ed. A founder of the Screen Actors Guild at a clandestine 1933 meeting, Ames served in a variety of union posts, including national president...
...incompetent must be accorded full protection of the law and can be punished only after a fair hearing, to which can be added the right of appeal. This is as it should be, but it takes time. Rather than direct criticism toward what is perceived as a protective-guild mentality among doctors, turn the attack on those who are in control of the investigation. At the present time, the medical profession occupies the uncomfortable seat of being held responsible for all medical discipline without authority over the process. The state giveth the license, and only the state can taketh...
...What we're deciding here will affect actors for a generation," says Doug Allen, SAG's national executive director and chief negotiator. "The notion that the [Directors Guild of America], [Writers Guild of America] and SAG should all get the same deal is not fair. What's good for directors is not necessarily good for actors...