latimes.com - 12/1/2008
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Michelle Obama visits The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.
hollywoodreporter.com - 11/27/2008
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hollywoodreporter.com —
SAG's "educational campaign" toward strike authorization began Wednesday
with a pre-Thanksgiving Q&A e-mail to its members.
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SAG talks strike authorization
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We Love Soaps —
... broadcast networks, which still operate in the mass marketplace. I keep thinking and hoping the networks will establish new models and formulas so the best and brightest shows can flourish even if they don't break out. The NBC/DirecTV sharing of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS this season could be a starting point, but the industry isn't yet willing to relinquish its hope that everything it puts on can draw an audience on the level of NCIS, DANCING WITH THE STARS, CSI and GREY'S ANATOMY." A SAG strike won't cripple TV Dark clouds of labor trouble are again closing in ...
The More You Know: Buffy the Movie! Wait a minute…
TiFaux —
... script Someone is selling Mad Men paper dolls and holiday cards on Zazzle Cincinnati TV station changes name from WBQC to WKRP James Callis from Battlestar says the finale would make Hitler cry Quality Show Fatigue is sweeping the nation HBO’s Rome may be becoming a movie Tina Fey talks to Vanity Fair Michael Chiklis talks about The Shield ending The site of the British version of The Office blew up Whew! SAG strike would not effect television shows Rosie Live the final nail in the variety ...
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Hollywood CEOS To SAG: We Tell You What The Deal Is, Not Other Way Around
deadlinehollywooddaily.com 12/2/2008 — The AMPTP alerted me to this "Open Letter to the Entertainment Industry" in the form of an ad addressing the current situation with SAG and set to run in the Los Angeles Times tomorrow. I have a better idea: Why don't the Hollywood CEOs get off their ...
Odetta Dead at 77
tsutpen.blogspot.com 12/3/2008 — Bleary-eyed and groggy souls this AM are greeted with profoundly sad news of the passing of Odetta Holmes . . . one of the great and mighty singers of this time, or any other . . . at the age of 77. Here is an account from the Los Angeles Times
Beverly Garland —
A Writer's Life
Actress Beverly Garland died today . She guest-starred on a DIAGNOSIS MURDER episode that Bill Rabkin and I wrote that brought back Mike Connors as Joe Mannix. Connors was quoted in her Los Angeles Times obituary:
"Not only was she a terrific actress, she was one of
those special gals who ...
DHD Advisory: An Honorable Mention... —
Deadline.com
My thanks to both the Los Angeles Times' Meg James and The New York Times' Bill Carter for acknowledging in their articles today that Deadline Hollywood Daily broke the news about Friday's big NBC bloodbath. Neither trade did.
A few suggestions for the new master of Meet the Press —
The Feed
If the New York Times, Politico, the Los Angeles Times and the Huffington Post are to be believed, NBC's Meet the Press is going to get a new master on Sunday, when Tom Brokaw concludes his hour-long interview with President-elect Obama with the announcement that David Gregory is taking over ...
SAG Email: "We Have CEOs' Attention" —
Deadline.com
The WGA tonight sent this email to its members:
Dear Screen Actors Guild Member,
In an “open letter” full-page ad published today in the Los Angeles Times, eight entertainment industry CEO’s whose annual salaries and bonuses exceed the amount needed to achieve labor peace for our industry asked ...
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