Writers Guild

State Controller's Office Says Your Money is Waiting: So Why Don't You Just Get it?

Michael Russnow | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Social Security Card, Universal Studios, Unclaimed Money, Social Security, Safe Deposit Box, Money, Russnow, Michael Russnow, Writers Guild, Controller's Office, Controller Website, Personal Finance, New York, California, Escheating, Business News
Michael Russnow

I'm always amazed that so many people bitch about not earning enough money to make ends meet when many of these same folks disregard money that is just sitting and waiting for them to collect.

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Mike the Writer is for Obama: So are Most Europeans, but Why Do Media Pundits See That as a Downside?

Michael Russnow | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media

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Michael Russnow

Rather than think our foreign friends' hopeful anticipation is a bad sign, it should give us more incentive to restore the love and respect the world has long held for the United States.

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Are You Prepared For the Post-Television Reality?

Douglas Sarine and Kent Nichols | Posted 10.01.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, Writers Guild, Post-Television, Web Content, Joss Whedon, Webisodes, Ask a Ninja, Entertainment News
Douglas Sarine and Kent Nichols

The future of TV for the next five to ten years is in the hands of the individual, both in creation and consumption.

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The Writers Workbench: Anti Maim

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 04.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers Guild, Anti-Virus, Kaspersky, KAV, Wga, Entertainment News
Robert J. Elisberg

If you're unprotected at the moment, or unhappy with your anti-virus program, Kaspersky Anti-Virus is well-worth considering.

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HuffPoster John Ridley Among Those Called Out By Writer's Guild

Reny Monk | Posted 04.18.2008 | Entertainment

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Reny Monk

The WGA has sent out a castigating letter to its members that lists names of writers who crossed the picket lines during the tense hundred-day strike that ended in February.

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Why Bones Is the Perfect Show (Or At Least One of the Best Ones Ever)

Jamie Frevele | Posted 04.14.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Video, Writers Strike, Michaela Conlin, David Boreanaz, TV on DVD, Emily Deschanel, Bones, Procedural Drama, Strike Over, Eric Millegan, TJ Thyne, New Shows, Writers Guild, Fox, Wga, Entertainment News
Jamie Frevele

After watching every episode available to me, I was ready to make a very bold, James Lipton-caliber claim: Bones might be the best show of its kind, perhaps ever.

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Deborah Kerr Rhymes With Star, and What a Star She Was: She Deserves to Be Remembered, Too

Michael Russnow | Posted 04.07.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: The King and I, Anthony Minghella, Writers Guild, Christopher Reeve, Deborah Kerr, Brazil, Writers Strike, Sao Paulo Film Festival, Tea and Sympathy, From Here to Eternity, Robert Anderson, Michael Russnow, Roxy Theatre, Writers Guild Strike, Los Angeles Times, Charlton Heston, Motion Picture Actress, British Dailies, The Queen, Cnn, Ceremonial Secretariat, Internet Cafe, Daniel Taradash, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

Though Kerr was 86 and had been out of the public eye for a number of years, her film and stage career, spanning four and a half decades, had secured her legendary status in motion picture history.

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Keeping Up With the Joneses in a Career: The Worst "Ism" Isn't What You Think

Michael Russnow | Posted 04.03.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sexism, Racism, Art Buchwald, Richard Nixon, Michael Russnow, Writers Guild Strike, Writers Guild, Gosford Park, Julian Fellowes, Coming to America, Oscar, Robert Altman, Ageism, Isms, Agents, Perceptionism, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

Perceptionism can happen to anyone, not only in the entertainment industry. We have seen careers in politics and business that appeared meteoric, only to have a misstep or loss shoot them down.

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The WGA Strike For Dummies: End Game - But What About Our Future?

Michael Russnow | Posted 02.10.2008 | Entertainment

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Michael Russnow

The writers' work stoppage has been our shot across the bow. And it was magnificently played. There's no doubt our producing partners know we mean business and now take us seriously.

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The WGA Strike for Dummies: Why Is It Taking So Long?

Michael Russnow | Posted 01.30.2008 | Entertainment

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Michael Russnow

Are we, the industry major creative players, forever to play Charlie Brown to the AMPTP's arrogant and menacing Lucy Van Pelt?

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The WGA Strike for Dummies, and My Concerns Over the DGA Deal

Michael Russnow | Posted 01.25.2008 | Entertainment

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Michael Russnow

Once we accept a deal similar to the DGA's, it will be almost impossible to significantly improve it once we realize how much money the Internet networks are making and how little in comparison we are.

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WGA Strike Losses Top $1.5 Billion

MSNBC | Michael Ventre | Posted 01.23.2008 | Business

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Now that the Directors Guild of America has reached an accord with Hollywood studios, the striking writers have returned to the bargaining table in th...

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WGA Lead Neogotiator May Be Out Of His League

Wall Street Journal | PETER SANDERS, SAM SCHECHNER and MERISSA MARR | Posted 12.04.2007 | Business

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For the past month, striking screenwriters have placed their faith in veteran union organizer David Young, who cut his teeth rallying garment workers,...

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Bernie and Judy

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.15.2007 | Media

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Joseph A. Palermo

News outlets are focusing on Regan's passionate love affair with the swashbuckling Kerik, instead of on the more important news of Regan's law suit and Kerik's 14-count indictment.

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Strikers Take To Wall Street

Los Angeles Times | Thomas Mulligan | Posted 11.14.2007 | Media

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Striking TV and movie writers chose Wall Street as a symbolic backdrop Tuesday for their demand for a bigger slice of the new-media pie. Their argume...

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Ellen Cancels NYC Show Plans

AP | Erin Carlson | Posted 11.13.2007 | Media

Read More: Writers Guild, Writers Guild Strike, Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America Strike, Ellen Show, Ellen Writers' Strike, Ellen Degeneres, Media News

Ellen DeGeneres has pulled the plug on plans to tape her show next week in New York, where Writers Guild East members had vowed to protest her decisio...

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TV Blogs Show Support For The Strike By "Going Dark"

TV Week | James Hibberd | Posted 11.13.2007 | Media

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Although the Writers Guild of America 's pre-strike media campaign was criticized as sluggish, the guild's headline-grabbing series of protests last w...

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Waterboarders Protest Negative Media Stereotypes

Andy Borowitz | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics

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Andy Borowitz

After several days of hearing senators repeatedly denigrate the practice on national television, waterboarders "have had enough."

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It's "Only" Words

Carol Hoenig | Posted 11.03.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Strike, Daily Show, Craigslist.com, Jon Stewart, Fred Thompson, New York Times, Guild, Stephen Colbert, Brian Kiley, Hollywood, Conan O'Brien, Writers Guild, Strike Opinion, Writers' Strike Opinion, Entertainment News
Carol Hoenig

I wonder what would happen if all writers, from novelists to bloggers, decided to join in the strike. With that thought in mind, does my blogging without compensation make me part of the problem?

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WGA Authorized To Strike ... As Expected

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 10.19.2007 | Business

Read More: Hollywood Strike, WGA Strike, WGA, Writer's Guild, Business News

That's what members in the know are telling me. But the vote totals won't be officially announced until Friday at 3 pm. Here's some timing news, accor...

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