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What evil force has Hollywood in its grip? Nothing as campy as what science fiction can envision, to be sure. The latest tempest in Tinseltown (and no, it’s not J. Lo’s increasingly warped fashion sense) is that the contracts which the WGA and the Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) have with the television and film industry (represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) are set to expire on May 1 and June 30, respectively. These 14,000 WGA members and 135,000 SAG members constitute the brains and the brawn...
...Hollywood experiences an entertainment blackout next fall, we can do little but sit back and hope for the best. In the meantime, well—Seinfeld reruns and Monday Night Football will have to suffice...
...said. "There won't be one penny less spent on politics it just won't be spent by the parties." Instead, he predicted, there would be a "battle of billionaires over the political discourse in this country" as power was transferred from the parties to the press, academia, Hollywood and the richest individuals. He says half a dozen Democrats came up later and said they were stunned by what they had done to their party...
...just as important as his own continued comeback--which started with his joining the Murphy Brown cast in 1995--is the one he plans for Pee-wee, a character so popular that Reubens still has unopened mailbags of fan mail, some of it addressed simply PEE-WEE, HOLLYWOOD, making him the only man with a functioning address shorter than Santa Claus'. He had publicly become Pee-wee exclusively, showing up in character even for print interviews, and having Pee-wee, not Reubens, as the name on his star on the Walk of Fame that was jackhammered up after the scandal...
...Playhouse before the story moves, Wizard of Oz-style, to somewhere even more messed up. The other one, The Pee-wee Herman Story, is what Reubens is calling "the adult Pee-wee movie" and has the tight-suited one making it as a pop singer, moving to Hollywood, becoming insanely famous and turning into a monster. "Pee-wee Herman winds up getting hooked on pills and booze. I'm not shooting up, but I wouldn't want young kids to see it," he says...