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Keeping Up on the Strike
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
- Margo Channing, All About Eve (Screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Recent Stories & Reports
- BREAKING: Spyglass, MRC ink their own deals with WGA - 01-14-08
- BREAKING: 20th Century Fox TV joins the force majeure onslaught - 01-14-08
- BREAKING: Warner Bros. packs 'em in / The pickets were thick around Warner Bros. today - 01-14-08
- BREAKING: There will be blood: NBC U and 20th begin axing deals - 01-14-08
- RECENT: Reuters - Tom Hanks to AMPTP: Negotiate Seriously, Save the Oscars - 01-10-08
- RECENT: Weinsteins negotiating side deal with WGA - Hollywood Repporter, New York Times, Yahoo News - 01-10-08
- BREAKING: NEW TENTATIVE DEAL FOR NEWSWRITERS - Hollywood Reporter - CBS newswriters trade retro for jurisdiction - 01-09-08
- RECENT: WGA and UA sign interim agreement - 01-07-08
- RECENT: per Live Journal Community "Fans for the Writers" - The United Hollywood blog has been suspended by blogspot and is under investigation as a "spam blog" - 01-07-08" (UPDATE - they have been re-enabled at 3:22p PST)
- BREAKING: LA Times - NBC reveals scaled back Golden Globes broadcast - 01-07-08
- RECENT: Variety says DGA moves closer to AMPTP negotiations - 01-06-08
- RECENT: AP story - Leno, Kimmel to Go on Each Other's Shows 01-06-08
- RECENT: San Francisco Chronicle - WGA strike goes from pinch to burn in Week 10 - 01-08-08
- WGA signs (or is close to signing) deal with United Artists - Variety, United Hollywood, New York Post, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline Hollywood Daily - 01-05-08
- at UH - SAG Announces Unanimous Agreement: No Golden Globes - 01-04-08
- Michael Seitzman at the Huffington Post - What "Fi-Core" Really Means - 01-04-08
- WGA Says No Golden Globes Waiver - 01-02-08
- Fans4Writers at the Rose Parade - 01-01-08
- Michael Winship, president of Writers Guild of America/East, as the strike enters 2008 - 01-01-08
- WGA Files Unfair Labor Practice Charges Against AMPTP -
12-14-07 - Robert Elisberg - WGA Strike Primer: Spin the Bottle - 12-13-07
- David Young: Where We Are Now - 12-12-07
- Contract update & new proposal from Patric M. Verrone & Michael Winship for the WGAw/WGAe - 12-05-07
- WGA-East takes a look at the current proposals - 12-04-07
- Update from WGA Negotiating Committee member John Bowman - 12-04-07
- United Hollywood reports on yesterday's Homecoming Picket - 12-01-07
- United Hollywood - Some Answers: Real Numbers, and what Really Happened in the Negotiations - 11-30-07
- Variety's Scribe Vibe - As the news blackout lifts, the gloves come off - 11-30-07
- Writers strike comes to Cambridge - with Joss Whedon! - 11-30-07
- Ken Levine's Making Chicken Salad Out of the AMPTP's New Proposal 11-30-07
- United Hollywood Does the Math 11-29-07
- The WGA responds 11-29-07
- The AMPTP, um... "offers" 11-29-07
- I Killed in the Line - from Toronto 11-28-07
- International Day of Solidarity 11-28-07
- More From Today's Outing - from Quebec 11-28-07
- We support the Writers Guild of America - from London 11-28-07
- Aussie screenwriters back US strike - from Australia 11-28-07
- NZ Writers day of action 28 November - from New Zealand 11-28-07
- Writers Strike - Team Germany (on youtube) - from Germany 11-28-07
- The Dutch Support the Strike (on youtube) - from Holland 11-28-07
- International writers day of support (on youtube) - international videos from 11-28-07
General Strike Watch
- The Huffington Post's Writers Strike Blog
- TV Guide's Strike Watch
- United Hollywood
- LA Weekly's Deadline Hollywood Daily
- Variety's Scribe Vibe Strike Blog
- Ain't It Cool News' Coaxial
- WGA Strike Twitter
- EW's Strike Blog
- Watchers Watch
- New York Magazine's Strike Zone
- MeVee: Writers Strike
- Defamer's Hollywood Strikewatch
- Hollywood Reporter
- Past Deadline
- The Mayor of Television
- NY Post TV Blog
- E! Online Watch with Kristin
- Ducky Does TV Strike Watch
- WGA Strike News Digest
- Television Without Pity (TWOP) Strike Blog
(Go to our site forum to read more articles about the strike.)
Understanding the Strike
(go here for links)
So here's how it is - if we don't act together, then we nothin'. If we don't stick together, we nothin'. And if we can't even trust each other, then we nothin'. So what's it gonna be?
- Jack Kelly, Newsies (Screenwriters Bob Tzudiker & Noni White)
(Go to our site forum to read more in our Resource section about the strike.)
Writers Writing about the Strike
(go here for links)
Look upon me! I'll show you the life of the mind.
- Charlie Meadows, Barton Fink (Screenwriters Joel and Ethan Coen)
(Go to our site forum to read more writers on the strike.)
Fans Supporting the Strike
(go here for links)
I am your number one fan.
- Annie Wilkes, Misery (Screenwriter William Goldman)
(Go to our site forum to see Fans4Writers fan forums.)
Below The Line - the first line
(go here for links)
- David, Newsies (Screenwriters Bob Tzudiker & Noni White)
Other Strike-related Info
(go here for links)
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle.
The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
- Hubert Hawkins, The Court Jester
(Screenwriters Norman Panama & Melvin Frank)
Who's Talking About Us - Our Press
(go here for links)
Don't sit there like a frozen robin.
Get on with the story.
- WALTER BURNS
(Charles Lederer, based on the play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur)
(Go to our site forum to read more of our press coverage and who's linking to us.)
Strike Videos (or, Don't Mess with a Writer)
(go here for links)
We're only interested in one thing, Bart. Can you tell a story? Can you make us laugh? Can you make us cry? Can you make us want to break out in joyous song? Is that more than one thing? Okay!
- Jack Lipnick, Barton Fink (Screenwriters Joel and Ethan Coen)
(Check out the WGA America and other strike videos at Youtube.)
Strike and Labor Films, Musicals, TV shows
(go here for links)
with thanks to Joss Whedon, Nebula1400 and the WHEDONesque community
We want the formula! We want the formula!
- Salt of the Earth (Screenwriters Michael Biberman & Michael Wilson)
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