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Investors also like the industry's new Establishment cred. The old model of buying an overstaffed, underleveraged company, stripping it of cash and slashing jobs and expenses simply doesn't work as well now that corporate America has learned to downsize itself. Competition from abroad keeps companies on their toes just as well as the threat of a hostile takeover ever did. "The heart and soul has become real business building," says Marc Lipschultz, a partner at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts...
Which brings us to Barack Obama. Last week, the senator gave a heavily-lauded speech, proclaiming that Democrats must be less suspicious of religion and that some breaches of the wall between church and state were permissible ("Context matters".) As political antidote, it makes sense; but as a political model, it is fraught with danger...
...Essentially what they do is take the footage they watch, write outlines and treatments and put together a script that has primary and secondary characters," says Writer's Guild spokesman Gabriel Scott. "They build the narrative out of hundreds of hours of raw footage. America's Next Top Model is the highest-rated reality show and the flagship program for a new network. And here the writers don' t get the benefits that the editors and Tyra Banks get." Guild officials point out that reality writers don't accrue the portable pension and other benefits that a writer of West...
...timing of the strike could not have been better - or, worse, depending whose side you are on. America's Next Top Model, which is hosted and produced by supermodel Tyra Banks, is a huge hit and the flagship program for the Sept. 20 launch of CW, the new network created through the merger of UPN and the WB. With hundreds of hours of raw footage shot, the series' writer-producers were in the process of shaping storylines for the episodes that viewers will tune into as the show begins its fourth season. Three episodes are finished, but the strike could...
...Bowe, an associate show producer on Top Model, says she and her partner crafted 250 hours of raw footage into a full script with characters and storylines. "We don't put the words in the contestants' mouths, but a photo shoot and a watchable episode is created," says Bowe. Clint Catalyst, also an associate producer who worked on scripted television and wrote several novels before joining the Top Model staff, says, "We're storytellers. And we're not recognized as such. There's a notion that people have that there is no writing in reality television, and that's just...