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...been 50 years since Edmund H. North, then a young member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), penned the screenplay for the alien invasion classic “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” The movie’s debut marked the beginning of an incredible career for North, who would go on to win Oscar honors for co-authorship of “Patton.” After his death in 1990, North’s activism on behalf of screenwriters was recognized with the ascription of his name to the Guild?...
When the WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE writers (yes, there are writers) joined the Writers Guild of America in December, they got something in the bargain besides slightly higher wages, increased medical benefits and the possibility of meeting Bruce Vilanch at union meetings. They also got a very special exemption. If the guild does indeed go on strike May 1, as most people expect, the Millionaire scribes can keep pumping out the trivia anyway. That's because the WGA is betting that by allowing the ABC powerhouse to dominate three (or more) nights a week while the other writer...
...their attempts to buy my soul's work through cheap trinkets like a corporate AmEx card and health benefits. Yes, we writers, we conjurers of phrases, we have been used like a...no, I will expend metaphors for the Man no longer. Not since I learned that the Writers Guild of America has issued a list of demands and will go on strike if they are not met. If they do, that means we'll all have to watch old stuff. Not remakes of old stuff but the old stuff itself...
...ready to join with my quilled brethren, but it turns out the Guild is for film and TV writers, whose jobs are slightly different from mine in that they make $2 million a script. Still, their demands touched a part of me, the part of me that's greedy and egocentric, so really more "the vast majority of me" than "a part...
DIED. MARIE WINDSOR, 80, longtime Screen Actors Guild activist and film-noir starlet famous for portraying independent if not always angelic women; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Best known for the noir classics Force of Evil and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing, Windsor also starred in a string of films in the 1950s, such as Cat Women of the Moon, that earned her the moniker Queen...