A pair of the posts that got destroyed in the recent hack and which can’t be restored completely follow, restored as best we can. Sorry, your comments are gone forever (including that great discussion of FiCore). Initially we asked: What happened to 29,000 SAG Members??? Posted on December 29, 2009, 6:05 PM At first glance [...]
As regulars know, we were hacked some time in the overnight of Dec. 30-31. As a result of the hack we lost about a week’s worth of material, some of which exists in a backup file and will eventually get restored. A few days of my posts and the comments to those posts is gone, [...]
It has been an astonishing year on so many levels that it’s hard to know where to begin to describe it. But we’ll save our recap for next week. Tonight is a time for the family of performers to spend time with their families, and for the SAGWatch team to wish all of you a [...]
He was the sidekick to the stars during the golden years of television. From Jack Benny to Steve Allen to Frank Sinatra, when it was time for a nerdy straight man with immense comedic talent, Arnold Stang got the call. Stang started in radio, did early television, commercials, film work and back to voiceover, capping [...]
Last week was one of the best yet in the rebound, according to FilmLA. Permits for on location work were up 9% over 2008. It was the sixth week out of the last seven that permits were up, and the Los Angeles Times says the fourth quarter of the year will come in at a [...]
And no, we’re not talking about the New Media provisions in the TV-Theatrical contracts. The SAG Constitution has these provisions which sunset in April, 2010: Article V, Section 1, subdivision J(2)(a): (2.) (a) Video conference meetings shall end by 11:00 p.m. Eastern time. In person meetings scheduled for one day only shall end by 11:00 [...]
