Strike Update
Welcome back to the work week. Thanksgiving was time consuming and trying, and it doesn’t make matters any better when you’re under the weather and traveling. None the less we’re back, albeit late and unceremoniously, given that it’s has been an understandably slow news week in TV Land.
A couple links for you to kick off the week: First, here’s an array of photos from the strike, featuring some recognizable faces. If you don’t have nay idea what the scene is like out in Hollywood, this is the best illustration via still shots we can find. Larry David, as usual, looks unimpressed and indifferent, but I guess by virtue of being there he actually has a stake in this. But, for the most part, it’s a gathering of unrecognizable faces holding up signs with hyperbolic statements and quotes from historical figures about the importance of the union. Such as the one below.
Seems like a fair request.
Also, if those pictures are any indication, Alicia Keys performed at this thing, making it not a strike but a writer’s Woodstock. Which, given the mindset of most of the writers I know, seems like an appropriate form of work stoppage.
In other strike related news, it’s estimated, and I have no idea how this number is drummed up, that the strike is costing the city $21.3 million a day. So, for those who think the writers are a mere commodity that should be thankful for the scraps they get: please gracefully remove your head from your ass while you still can. They’re the backbone and the brain of Hollywood, not some disposable nuisance that everyone just has to “deal with”.
Sorry for the late, underwhelming, non-insightful post, but its the best we can come across in these turbulent times. Back with more as soon as we find the time. More on the strike can be found here.
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