Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lawson makes a living in an ill-defined sort of way. "I'm neither a butcher, a baker nor a candlestick maker. I do joint ventures with the entertainment industry. I'm a member of the Screen Actors Guild. I wrote a screenplay. I've got a horrendous project involving the integration of entertainment with education. You want to call me a consultant? Will your stomach settle? Okay, I'm a consultant. But really I do whatever the Sam Hill I want to." Lately he has been involved in something called Pro Per Inc., + which is "attempting to de-lawyer...
...Years Later: Guild of Bookworkers--MIT Museum (to June...
...picket line outside the CBS Broadcast Center in Manhattan got an injection of star power last Monday morning. A band of network heavyweights, including Dan Rather, Ed Bradley and Diane Sawyer, showed up to support striking members of the Writers Guild, who walked out two weeks ago over issues of job security. The featured speaker, however, was a less well known correspondent named Ike Pappas, whose current celebrity derives from the fact that he has just lost his job. "I feel very poorly for the people who have to get up every morning and pretend to work for CBS News...
...claims to be a "rabid union-man" after betraying his fellow actors while president of the Screen Actors Guild and busting the air-traffic controllers union when president of the United States. He tells Israeli and Jewish leaders he filmed death camps at the end of World War II "so I'd never forget," yet he spent the war at home. No matter that many of his stories are false and others distant memories of movies seen long ago: He's just making a point. And Americans, who twice have elected him President, are complicit in the make believe...
Reagan likes to recall his early postwar days as a workingman's advocate. In fact, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, he was not, reports Wills, "speaking for labor, but ((acting as)) a strikebreaker doing the will of the producers." When his movie career faltered, he became host of a television series, General Electric Theater, and stumped cross-country, speaking for the company. After eight years, he was summarily dismissed, but Reagan has no harsh words for GE; after all, by the time he was fired in 1962, he had reached a new constituency...