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Strike Over! Writers Guild Will Go Back to Work at 1am (Read Details Including Note to Members)

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Strike Over! Writers Guild Will Go Back to Work at 1am (Read Details Including Note to Members)

The Writers Guild strike is over! Writers can return to their laptops and other devices after midnight tonight. Dialogue can be written, plots outlined, coffee drunk, ink installed in printers.

The Guild says everyone can start up again. If something goes wrong, the strike can resume. But it’s going through. No one will stand in the way. Four months is enough!

Here’s what went out to membership:

“As we reported on Sunday, the WGA reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on a new three-year Minimum Basic Agreement. Today, your Negotiating Committee, the WGAW Board and WGAE Council all voted unanimously to recommend the agreement. It will now go to both Guilds’ memberships for a ratification vote. Eligible voters will receive ballot and materials for the vote which will take place from October 2nd to October 9th. 

“The WGAW Board and WGAE Council also voted unanimously to lift the restraining order and end the strike as of 12:01 am PT/3:01 am ET on Wednesday, September 27th. This allows writers to return to work during the ratification process, but does not affect the membership’s right to make a final determination on contract approval. 

“Now that we have finalized the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), we can share details of this exceptional deal, with gains and protections for members in every sector of the business: 

MBA 2023 Contract Materials: 

  • Members can read the complete tentative agreement, which is codified in this Memorandum of Agreement (MOA).
  • We are also providing a short Summary of the MOA.
  • Here is an update of the 2-pager (now 7-pager) that compares the status of negotiations on May 1st and what we achieved after 148 days on strike.

Contract Informational Member Meetings:

We are convening meetings this week so current members can hear from the Negotiating Committee, Board and Council, and have the opportunity to ask questions about the agreement before the ratification vote.

to be continued–

Read Trump’s Completely Unhinged, Panic Stricken Breakdown Statement About NY Court Loss: Suggests Mar-a-Lago Could Be Worth $1.8 BILLION?

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Read Trump’s Completely Unhinged, Panic Stricken Breakdown Statement About NY Court Loss: Suggests Mar-a-Lago Could Be Worth $1.8 BILLION?

Donald Trump’s response to being shut down in New York by Judge Engoron is wild. It’s a panic statement fueled maybe by some kind of breakdown.

Trump thinks that his “brand” is priceless and that his worth cannot be calculated by mere mortals.

He actually suggests that Mar-a-Lago isn’t worth just $18 million, but

maybe “100 times that.” Is Mar-a-Lago worth $1.8 billion? The Palm Beach County Assessor appraised the market value of Mar-a-Lago at between $18 million and $27.6 million but Trump thinks because of its association with his name, it’s worth over one billion dollars!

The end is coming, and fast.

 

Trump Suffers “Major Blow” in NY AG Case, Judge Finds Fraud And Lying About Value of Company, Could Lose Trump Organization

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Trump Suffers “Major Blow” in NY AG Case, Judge Finds Fraud And Lying About Value of Company, Could Lose Trump Organization

NY Attorney General Letitia James has won her case against Donald Trump.

Judge Arthur Engoron has ruled that Trump LIED in his fraud case lied about his company’s value for at least a decade by hundreds of millions of dollars.

Engoron also granted James’s request to impose sanctions on Trump, his co-defendants and their attorneys for repeatedly filing already-rejected legal arguments.

James is suing Trump on behalf of New York State for $250 million.

It’s highly unusual to lose a case before it begins, but that’s what has happened. Now Trump’s trial will be quite short since we already know the outcome. James is trying to bar the Trumps from serving as head of New York-licensed businesses or doing business deals and taking out loans for five years.

New York Times: “Justice Engoron’s decision narrows the issues that will be heard, effectively deciding that the trial was not necessary to find that Mr. Trump was liable and that the core of Ms. James’s case was valid. It represents a major blow to Mr. Trump, whose lawyers had sought to persuade the judge to throw out many of the claims against the former president.”

He added: “That is a fantasy world, not the real world,” he added.

Here’s a summary of what’s going on.

“Dancing with the Stars” Returns Tonight to ABC with Pickets and Child Abusing NFL Player Adrian Peterson

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“Dancing with the Stars” Returns Tonight to ABC with Pickets and Child Abusing NFL Player Adrian Peterson

In 2014, Minnesota Vikings played Adrian was indicted by a Texas grand jury on a felony charge for allegedly beating his then 4-year-old son with a :switch” on his back, buttocks, genitals, ankles, and legs. The boy had lacerations all over his body. Peterson said that was how he was punished as a child in Texas.

Peterson pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of misdemeanor reckless assault and avoided jail time. He also received a two-year probation period, a $4,000 fine and 80 hours of community service and faced a one-year suspension in the NFL. He was suspended for the rest of the 2014 season.

In February 2022, Peterson was arrested on a domestic violence charge by the Los Angeles Airport Police, He posted a $50,000 bond but managed to get his wife to drop the charges.

Peterson’s reward for all this? Tonight he debuts on “Dancing with the Stars.”

“DWTS” returns to ABC tonight after a season of being banished to Disney Plus. But ABC needed programming to fill the void left by the strikes, and “DWTS” is popular and cheap. And now it features a child abuser, something you can’t always get on a network show.

Among tonight’s other celebrity dancers: maybe their first Oscar winner, Mira Sorvino; Britney Spears’s sister, Jamie; singer Jason Mraz. It’s; the usual jumble of B-listers otherwise.

There may be pickets outside “DWTS” tonight as SAG AFTRA is still on strike, and the Writers Guild strike isn’t officially over. Sorvino is certainly in SAG, as is the show’s host, Alfonso Ribiero. But “DWTS” is under the same contract as the soap operas and talk shows. So technically it can go on. But it’s not a good look for union members to be tripping the light fantastic until all the strikes are completely resolved — especially with a child abuser included.

UPDATE: Golden Globes Dump 15 More Former Members of the Hollywood Foreign Press in Effort to Become Real

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UPDATE: Golden Globes Dump 15 More Former Members of the Hollywood Foreign Press in Effort to Become Real

The Golden Globes are busy purging more old Hollywood Foreign Press members.

I told you this morning they’d already dumped three including Munawar Hosain, a man who never said no to a free trip or junket, and Aniko Navai.

Now they’ve bought out 15 more including longtime members like Dagmar Dunlevy, Erkki Kanto, Noel de Souza, Alexander Nevsky (about whom I wrote several amusing stories).

The new Globes are buying out these people and presumably making them sign NDAs.

Tim Gray and Helen Hoehne (she’s from the old group) are now running the show for Penske/Eldridge, the same company that owns Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline, as well as DIck Clark Productions.

A date of January 7, 2024 is set for a broadcast, although no TV partner has been announced. Getting rid of all this dead wood will go a long way to revive the Globes.

Bette Midler, Susan Sarandon, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Megan Mullally Start Shooting Latest “Golden Girls” Type Movie

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Bette Midler, Susan Sarandon, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Megan Mullally Start Shooting Latest “Golden Girls” Type Movie

If you’re a famous actress of a certain age, and you can find a script and three other comparable ladies, a movie is in your future.

The latest is called “Fabulous Four,” and it stars Bette Midler, who’s getting married later in life, with her pals Susan Sarandon, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Megan Mullally.

When the film, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, was first announced in 2023, Sissy Spacek was attached. Apparently she dropped out was replaced by the dynamo Emmy winner Ralph, who just got an award named for her at Project Angel Food in Los Angeles.

All of this started with “The First Wives Club” years ago. Lately Jane Fonda headed two movies in the “Golden Girls” category, both hits — “Book Club 2” and “80 for Brady.” More and more of these are being filmed as the audience exists and they love seeing big stars still in their prime. These movies are also great for guys in this age group, too!

Bleecker Street Films will produce and release.

Jann Wenner Book “The Masters” Debuts on Amazon Best Seller List at Number 6,769 After Disastrous Interview

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Jann Wenner Book “The Masters” Debuts on Amazon Best Seller List at Number 6,769 After Disastrous Interview

Jann Wenner’s new book is officially DOA.

“The Masters” debuts today on amazon’s hardcover bestseller list at number 6,769.

At one point before Wenner’s disastrous interview with the New York Times, presales had the book up to around 1,400. A promotional tour was planned and Rolling Stone would have plugged it certainly.

But all possibility of success ended when Wenner told a Times interviewer, David Marchese ,that he included no female or Black artists because they weren’t articulate enough — and basically didn’t matter.

The result was cancelling of the promo tour, being ousted from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame board, and denounced by Rolling Stone.

Wenner said in the interview when asked about the lack of Blacks and women in the book: “The people had to meet a couple criteria, but it was just kind of my personal interest and love of them. Insofar as the women, just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level.”

You can read the whole thing here.

It’s sad end to a career, and even sadder for Little, Brown, which could never have predicted this outcome.

“Moonlighting” with Cybill Shepherd, Bruce Willis Finally Goes to Hulu After Songs Are Cleared

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“Moonlighting” with Cybill Shepherd, Bruce Willis Finally Goes to Hulu After Songs Are Cleared

“Moonlighting” is finally coming to streaming.

The famed and beloved Cybill Shepherd-Bruce Willis TV that ran from 1988 to 1992 will be on Hulu any minute.

The reason we’ve never seen it before? Music clearances. They’re finally all done.

Glenn Gordon Caron was the writer-producer. It was his show. Back then, Shepherd and Willis, a newcomer, were at each other’s throats. The show as a big comeback for Shepherd, who played Maddie Hayes, and a launching pad for Willis, who’d been a theater actor and a bartender up to that point.

The banter between Willis and Shepherd on screen is memorable, almost as good as the stuff written back in the day for Tracy and Hepburn in their classic films. While the mysteries became thinner and thinner, the meta stuff of the show– including sizzling musical numbers — are memorable.

Looking forward to also seeing Allyce Beasley as Miss DiPesto and Curtis Armstrong as Herbert. They were all magic.

Legendary “Gone with the Wind” Star Hattie McDaniel to Get a Replacement Oscar for Lost Award in Effort to Right Wrong

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Legendary “Gone with the Wind” Star Hattie McDaniel to Get a Replacement Oscar for Lost Award in Effort to Right Wrong

Hattie McDaniel is the legendary star who won Best Supporting Actress in 1939 for playing Mammy in “Gone with the Wind.”

She died in the 1950s and left her Oscar statue to Howard University. Over time in the 60s it disappeared.

Now the Academy will deliver a replacement statue to Howard on October 1st in a special ceremony headed by Phylicia Rashad.

McDaniels’ experience with the Oscars in 1939 left a lot to be desired. She was seated, shamefully, in the back of the auditorium, apart from the other nominees. She would be the only Black actress to win an Oscar until Halle Berry in 2002.

“When I was a student in the College of Fine Arts at Howard University, in what was then called the Department of Drama, I would often sit and gaze in wonder at the Academy Award that had been presented to Ms. Hattie McDaniel, which she had gifted to the College of Fine Arts,” said Rashad. “I am overjoyed that this Academy Award is returning to what is now the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University. This immense piece of history will be back in the College of Fine Arts for our students to draw inspiration from. Ms. Hattie is coming home!”

Back in 1939, McDaniel only received a plaque, not a statue, which was customary for Supporting Actors. Now she will shine with a real statuette.

Bravo to the Academy!

Trump Upset with Fox News, Says Was Once “Our Voice,” Now Has “A Serious Case of Laryngitis,” Calls Fox & Friends “Unrecognizable”

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Trump Upset with Fox News, Says Was Once “Our Voice,” Now Has “A Serious Case of Laryngitis,” Calls Fox & Friends “Unrecognizable”

Donald Trump has never actually acknowledged Rupert Murdoch’s stepping down from running Fox News — or the elevation of son Lachlan.

Today, however, he’s critical of Fox News, saying they were once

“our VOICE” — whose voice, his? MAGA? But now that voice has a “serious case of laryngitis.”

He also says “Fox and Friends” is “unrecognizable.” What? Have they gone all PBS on him?

Over the weekend he also attacked NBC and MSNBC. And yet, they all still cover him. Just not with a weight blanket.

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