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...America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) broke down last Friday, the bitterness between the two already rancorous parties reached an all-time high. The producers issued an ultimatum, walked out and released a scathing statement: "While the WGA's organizers can clearly stage rallies, concerts and mock exorcisms," the AMPTP said, "we have serious concerns about whether they're capable of reaching reasonable compromises that are in the best interests of our entire industry." The writers, meanwhile, tried a new labor solidarity tactic - donning Vulcan ears. A Star Trek Day picket line outside Paramount...
...support the way they did it. I wish they would have stayed at the table and we all would have stayed working." Lapidus's tone is considerably more measured than that of Thomas Short, the president of the below-the-line workers' union, the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), who likens the WGA leadership to "a huge clown car that's only missing the hats and horns." (IATSE currently represents the reality and animation writers the WGA wants to count...
...With campaigning underway for a Dec. 23 general election, and Isaan a key battleground, dinosaurs again roam the region - political ones this time. Lumbering onto a campaign stage in this sleepy town is veteran politician Samak Sundaravej, 72, the right-wing firebrand who leads the People Power Party (PPP). The PPP is an ill-disguised facsimile of Thai Rak Thai (TRT), the party outlawed after the Thai military overthrew its leader, the multi-billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra, in September 2006. The TRT's Bangkok headquarters is now occupied by the PPP, and the two parties' logos are almost identical...
...feel like shouting, exactly what Howard Dean was attempting when he derailed, the kind that makes you want to totally crush the other football team. But even the talkers like the bits they catch. "Buck, I tell you what we're going to do," Dodd yells from the stage to the bar's owner. "I'm going to need a bartender in the White House...
Huckabee had a different message: "For many people on this stage, the economy's doing terrifically well, but for a lot of Americans, it's not doing so well." He talked about people who have trouble paying their rent or getting health insurance or paying for college. Huckabee does not always have convincing answers to these problems, but at least he recognizes them...