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...drawn-out brouhaha with the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild, and other Hollywood unions. Unions are already demanding a boost in residuals members earn for iTunes downloads, and they may ask for additional money coming from the new revenues generated by streaming video ad sales. SAG says all unions combined now get a piddling two cents for each $1.99 download, with actors receiving about half of that, and the Writers Guild of America, which represents scriptwriters, says their residual amounts to less than half a cent. For its part, ABC states that its contract allows the network...
...when he contended he has "no presidential ambitions." As for de Villepin's rival, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, his ambitions are probably more realistic now. After presenting himself all along as more sympathetic to protesters' complaints, Sarkozy's approval ratings have remained high even as those of other conservatives sag, and Chirac and de Villepin's flirt with record lows...
MATT LEBLANC JOEY'S GIG: NBC's Joey returns this week. The buzz: Television's most hyped spin-off has spun out. It's time for Joey to turn in his SAG card...
...some protectionist resentment against Brokeback, which is set in Wyoming and Texas but was shot mostly in Alberta. This would tilt the Best Picture vote to Crash, a low-budget, L.A.-made movie that?s so teeming with speaking parts it seems to have employed half the SAG members in Southern California...
...film won the top Oscar without a Globe citation.) But Lions Gate, the indie distributor that picked Crash up, sent out an astonishing 130,000 dvds of the film, rightly figuring that anyone who saw it would, at least, not forget it. The tactic paid off with the SAG award and Oscar nominations for Best Picture and for Haggis as director and writer (with Bobby Moresco...