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...Brewer's Guild offered mead and ale brewed in nearly authentic medieval fashion. A brewer at the fair said the medieval liquor varies in strength between a barley wine and a near beer...
...CANT IMAGINE anyone trying to deny folks in their home the right to tape off a common carrier," said Ed Asner, head of the Screen Actors Guild But Walt Disney Studios and Universal City Studios could imagine all that and more. When Sony corporation first introduced video cassette recorders (VCR's), the same people who brought you Peter Pan and Donald Duck and his alleged "nephews" hauled Sony, four Betamax retailers, an advertising agency, and an individual Betamax owner into court for copyright infringement...
...Another TV star, Peter Barton, suffered third-degree burns over 18% of his body in 1981 while filming his sci-fi series The Powers of Matthew Star. Dozens of stunt people and technicians have been involved in less publicized mishaps. In all, 214 members of the Screen Actors Guild (which includes stunt people) reported work-related injuries...
...rushed shooting schedules. "In episodic TV today," says veteran Director Paul Stanley, "directors are asked to do a scene in two or three days that years ago in feature films they'd have been given weeks to prepare for." To avert accidents caused by fatigue, the Directors Guild of America has proposed that shooting days for TV series be limited to no more than eight hours. The proposal is opposed by the studios, however, since it would stretch out shoot ing time and, they fear, increase costs...
Still, Hollywood seems to be growing more safety-conscious, if not more cautious. The Screen Actors Guild reports that anonymous calls alerting it to unsafe sets have increased dramatically since the Twilight Zone accident. And stunt people - traditionally loath to turn down stunts for fear of losing a job, or face - are becoming more wary. "Ten years ago, we wouldn't have taken a second look before we did a stunt," says Fred Waugh, president of Stunts Unlimited. "Today we take a second or even a third." Many Hollywood officials hope the industry will step up its self-policing...