Membership First may have taken the name of their political consultant off their webpage, but the firm’s handiwork is unmistakable. A new video posted on YouTube promotes the Anne Marie Johnson candidacy. It looks and sounds exactly like a small market congressional campaign commercial, complete with cheesy (and credited) music and attacks on the other [...]
We heard from a New York member who wrote: I got both my National and New York election ballots this weekend. Everything was fine with the National package, but my New York envelope was missing the instruction pamphlet with the candidates statements. This wasn’t really a problem for me and I was able to vote, [...]
OK, this may be tame by SAG standards, but for the WGA it’s getting hot. An e-mail from outgoing president Patric Verrone, who led the WGA on its ill fated 100 day strike last year, takes on John Wells, one of the two candidates to succeed him. The e-mail, also signed by the former head [...]
Membership First has long smarted at the insulting abbreviations for the group’s name. Among the classics are MF and MeFirst, both of which have on occasion driven the group’s leaders into fits of near-rage. Finally, it seems, they’ve come up with what they hope will be a solution. We’re sure it’s their consultant’s idea, MF [...]
For 24 years, David Alter was SAG’s lawyer. TheWrap has a nice column remembering a man whose counsel helped guide the Guild through good times and bad, retiring in 2004 as a senior adviser to SAG. Alter died in New York at age 85.
With caucuses scheduled for Hollywood, New York, San Francisco and Chicago just after Labor Day, speculation is high that SAG is nearing a deal on videogames. Here’s Variety’s contribution. Videogames has been a particularly contentious area, with employers seeking substantial rollbacks claiming the recession is hurting them, despite their huge sales.
