The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The Screen Actors Guild's Board elections are in process. Last week on Look at LA, I interviewed the two large slates of candidates, Membership First...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
I don't mind bar codes, at least when they're on books, boxes, and bags of sugar. When I find them on ballots, though, I...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Last week I conducted interviews with David Jolliffe and Anne-Marie Johnson, leaders of the dominant Membership First faction of the SAG National (and Hollywood) Board,...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Jonathan Handel does "the math" -- which is good, because math is hard -- and determines that the Hollywood won't see a contract until 2009. A sample: 1. If Membership First wins the election overwhelmingly, and if SAG members overwhelmingly vote in the SAG survey (a push-poll, designed to influence people's votes) to have the Guild continue pushing hard for a better deal (i.e., 85%...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
A prominent entertainment labor attorney who conducted online interviews with leaders of the two primary feuding factions of the Screen Actors Guild has chided each side for failure to provide "clear and convincing answers" to resolving the stalemate between the union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Attorney Jonathan Handel wrote that the current leadership...
IMDb News (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
A prominent entertainment labor attorney who conducted online interviews with leaders of the two primary feuding factions of the Screen Actors Guild has chided each side for failure to provide "clear and convincing answers" to resolving the stalemate between the union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Attorney Jonathan Handel wrote that the current leadership...
