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Golden Globes Cancelled
RECIPIENTS OF “THE 65th ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS” TO BE ANNOUNCED AT BEVERLY HILTON PRESS CONFERENCE ON JAN. 13
HOLLYWOOD, CA, January 7, 2008 – The Hollywood Foreign Press Association today announced that the recipients of Golden Globe Awards in 25 categories will be revealed during an hour-long HFPA press conference at The Beverly Hilton to be covered live by NBC News beginning at 6:00 pm PST on January 13. “The 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards” NBC telecast and champagne dinner in The Beverly Hilton’s International Ballroom is officially cancelled.
“We are all very disappointed that our traditional awards ceremony will not take place this year and that millions of viewers worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars celebrating 2007’s outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television,” said Jorge Camara, President of The Hollywood Foreign Press Association. “We take some comfort, however, in knowing that this year’s Golden Globe Award recipients will be announced on the date originally scheduled.”
SAG, Independent Spirit Might Be Only Unscathed Award Shows
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ib7d80868802f…
Individual deals vs. the collective
We keep seeing all these individual deals being struck. The point of a union is to look out for the collective and bring everything back together. So far, that’s not happening and it’s becoming everyone for themselves.
It’s not everyone for
It’s not everyone for themselves. The WGA has some kind of strategy to what they’re doing, though i’m not sure what it is.
WGA Strategy
It is a bit of a mess. The WGA will only negotiate with non-conglomerate owned production companies, which is why they could make a deal with Lettermen and Worldwide Pants. This is weird, which Jon Stewart has been bitching about, because he was willing to have his production company take the same agreement as WWP. But he doesn’t own “The Daily Show”; Comedy Central does, and Viacom owns them. Stewart’s counterargument is that his show unionized into a Guild signatory as an individual show, not under Comedy Central’s blanket.
The NY Times reports that the WGA might be in violation of U.S. Labor Laws. Maybe the WGA wants to bring in the Feds on this, because, supposedly, above all, the studios fear the federal government investigating their notoriously bad accounting practices.
Honestly, the best solution? For the AMPTP to come back to the table and cave. It’s what everyone wants.
Does the AMPTP know
Does the AMPTP know something that everyone else doesn’t? Did they have a plan for this strike to go on long term?
WGA Strategy, Pt 38
It’s probably their strategy now since the AMPTP has walked from the table. Honestly, this isn’t that bad an idea to force them back to the table. I think people are just curious about the strategy’s consistency, why there wasn’t a WGA vote on the issue, and how this effects the point of the strike (i.e. work stoppage leads to loss of AMPTP revenue).
I know Dustin sent this to me, but has anyone else seen the insanely insulting comment by NBC Entertainment co-chair Ben Silverman?:
“Sadly, it feels like the nerdiest, ugliest, meanest kids in the high school are trying to cancel the prom. But NBC wants to try to keep that prom alive.”
As someone who took middle-school English might point out to Silverman, he’s got a problem with his simile. For the simile to work, the more accurate analogy would be, It’s like the nerds and the popular kids are united in boycotting the prom against the school board.