Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...portion of the Inaugural gala (ABC). But some cost-cutting efforts have backfired. Seeking 200 performers for public events, a committee consultant placed an ad in a trade publication for nonunion, "clean-cut, All-American types," to work for expenses but no wages. Several unions, including the Screen Actors Guild, which Reagan headed more than three decades ago, were outraged. Walker apologized to the unions for the ad, but decided to keep the nonpaid performers in the program. The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists filed charges with federal agencies, and the Actors Equity Association is planning a protest...
...comic villains of the piece. These red-haired nasties with a taste for drinking human blood and baroquely torturing farm animals are led by the pustulous, airborne Baron Vladimir (Kenneth McMillan) and his aide-de-camp Feyd (the rock star Sting), in gold-leaf bathing suit resplendent. The Guild Spokesman, an imperial messenger, has a bald head cracked on one side and oozing like a soft-boiled egg. Then there are the 1,000-ft. worms of Arrakis, the universe's longest phallic symbols, which hold within themselves the secret of melange...
...story are loosely drawn from experience. In 1963 Kennedy returned from Puerto Rico, where he had been managing editor of the English-language San Juan Star, to write features for the Albany Times-Union. He soon found himself walking a picket line as a member of the striking Newspaper Guild. In The Ink Truck, the real is bent into the surreal. Dingy neighborhoods are weirdly illuminated by arsonists' flames; alleys echo to pagan rites; Old World myths are superimposed on the present. There are elegiac hallucinations of the past and an up-to-date orgy, a perky sketch...
...entered the Guild room, sat once again, stared at the photo once again, felt at ease in old contours once again, was swept over with joy, doom, nostalgia...