[ElkGroveDan]

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[Pete98]

I don’t care what happens in this strike. Is it possible for both sides to lose? What’s the worst that can happen? Less liberal-socialist claptrap pollutes our airwaves this year?

I never watch TV as it is.

[Nik Naym]

Did the strikers abscond with the entire global supply of paragraphs as well?

[LdSentinal]

Less Law and Order episodes spouting liberal BS is a good thing.

[bray]

Greedy communists!

PRay for W and Our Victorious Troops

[goldstategop]

Liberal writers are the bane of our culture. I'm just happy they're not polluting it now that they've put down their pens. We're not really missing anything in Hollywood. Its a cultural and moral wasteland.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[papasmurf]

Nobody in their right mind (who ever expected to work again as a writer after the WGA strike of 2007 is settled) will dare utter the three taboo words rattling around in the collective unconscious: and those three taboo words are "Right To Work". Ironic, ain't it? Grown men and women (writers!) censure themselves and like Orwellian mind-cops, bite their tongues until they bleed, rather than exercise their Constitutional freedom of speech: "Right To Work".

But then, everything about Hollywood is ironic. (The more cynical amongst us would say "hypocritical". Let me be very specific, lest I am accused of the curse of obfuscation: Are you paying close attention, my brothers and sisters of the pen-craft?
Marxism repeats itslelf. The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce! Ironic, ain't it? Picture this: Here you have the spectacle of millionaire screenwriters parading around in a circle outside the studios run by millionare executives.

You'd think that none of these writers and executives had never seen "The Formula"....the only movie to star the two actors who had the testosterone to reject the little gold trophy proffered by the Academy, Marlon Brando and George C. Scott.

What's so interesting about "The Formula"? The unforgettable sentence: The Overworld controls the Underworld! You'd think none of these writers and executives remember that yesterday celebrated the 18th anniversary of the smasching of the Berlin Wall when jubilant slaves of the Cold War arose as freemen. (Right To Work).
What am I driving at? Simply this: Marxism lives on in Hollywood when it has been destroyed everywhere else. Remember what I am telling you: "Marxism repeats itself.

Firstly as tragedy, secondly as farce!" The Writers Strike of 2007 is one big, fat ugly betty of a farce....in living color, playing out on prime time t.v. and your internet and blackberry, ruining the lives of everyone caught up in this malestrom (except, ironically, the millionarie screenwriters and millionaire executives who can financially ride this one out!)
Why is this happening? Because the Overworld controls the Underworld. Think very carefully about how this has come to be. A small cadre of brain-dead Marxians run both the Writers Guild and the Oligopolist MPAA (AMPTP). They think alike...they look alike....at times they even TALK alike...cause their cousins...identical doppleganders...
Think I'm exaggerating? What's the number one rule of a labor stoppage. Quick...consult your Jimmy Hoffa (Walter Reuther) playbook, my brothers and sisters. YOU STRIKE TO SECURE PRESENT GAINS AGAINST ROLLBACKS forced upon you by the evil corporate bosses. You do NOT STRIKE to secure FUTURE uncertain possibilies. That's raw insanity!

The MPAA (AMPTP) did not put rollbacks on the table. They are not taking money OUT of your present pocket book. They are not taking BACK gains granted in previous negotiations, wage cuts, salary clippings....baby food out of the mouths of your kids.

So, what's really going on? MARXISM REPEATES ITSELF, firstly as tragedy (the 1988 WGA strike), secondly as farce! The MPAA didn't lock out the writers. No, the millionaire executives are way smarter than their millionaire doppleganger writers....they got the WGA to strike! Sheezam....calling Machievelli. Calling Sun-Tsu. (Repeat after me: FARCE!)
3 taboo words: Right To Work. This strike will end the second Jeffrey Immelt, Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone pick up their cell-phones for a conference call and say: Okay, over. Not a second before that triangulated call. The MPAA (AMPTP) got the WGA to fire the first shot. Now, all they have to do is wait until the bloody conflict allows them to prune their bloated overhead production deals and get lean and mean again.

Calling Machievelli! Calling Sun-Tsu! IRving Thalberg was right. He once said that writers are not laborers...what the hell do they want wiht a union. Writers are artists! Are songwriters unionized? Are novelists unionized? Are playwriters unionized? Of course not! What do they know that screenwriters forget.

One word: Copyright. When you watch a film, look at the end credits. It always must say: For purposes of copyright, the author of this movie is THE STUDIO! Who owns the copyright to your intellectual property? It ain't you, my sisters and brothers. The Overworld owns your intellectual property in the formula of the copyright, and gets YOU to walk out in a strike so they don't have to lock you out.
Only two men had the testosterone to REJECT the little gold tropy from the MPAA, and they appeared together in the movie "THE FORMULA". While you have so much free time (between walking around in circles and thinking you are Lenin, Trotsky, and Gramshi) go watch this movie, and then kiss your copyright goodbye! Meanwhile, do not even THINK to utter the 3 taboo word: Right To Work. Be an obedient little Marxian slave....the part that you have written for yourself.

Ironic, ain't it? Forget the freemen who demolished the Berlin Wall 18 years ago, yesterday. And no matter what you do, do not repeat after me: Marxism repeats itself. Firstly as tragedy, secondly as farce. (P.S. Somebody send this by blackberry to Immelt, Murdoch, and Redsone). Can you say: Right To Work ?


I got dizzy doin' this, it's the best I can while spinning. LOL

[racing fan]

Every writer is not a multimillionaire.

Obviously you are not a writer.

Please use paragraphs next time and stop repeating yourself.

[headsonpikes]

Bravo!!!

A tour de force!

You should be a writer!

[napscoordinator]

I think they are really stupid to strike. I know that many industries in the United States strike, but the TV show writers are especially stupid. The ratings are going down almost every year and I believe if this strike goes on for 22 weeks like it did in 1988, it is going to spell the end of TV as we know it. I know that soap operas will go to repeats next week and they are in most trouble according to reports. TV shows that just began are in trouble because people will lose interest and older shows might even lose viewers because they will go on to other arenas. The only one’s who will continue to make money are the movies regardless of the poor mouth that they claim every year. If you can spend 20 million on three actors in a movie, they are not hurting. Just my opinion.

[napscoordinator]

Oh one more thing...Winners...American Idol...if this strike goes through January than American Idol will get all the people who watch other shows to watch or a good percentage. They may get 40-50 million viewers instead of 30 million.

[racing fan]

YOU STRIKE TO SECURE PRESENT GAINS AGAINST ROLLBACKS forced upon you by the evil corporate bosses. You do NOT STRIKE to secure FUTURE uncertain possibilies.
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Based on what you are saying, you shouldn’t get a piece of what the company would gain in the future off your labor?

You would rather be held at your current wage and benefits for eternity and not gain anything in the future?

Technology changes at a rapid pace and contracts run a long time. The writer wouldn’t be able to gain compensation for his labor from anything unless it was specifically mentioned in the contract. The writer would lose out on any potiential income or benefit if he didn’t fight for it.

Remember, many of the benefits we enjoy today were gained from the organized labor. People today always assume we had these things. Unions have made many positive changes in this country. We would be like China if it were not for unions.

[Sue Perkick]

I think I just went blind.

[Condor51]

My Eyes, My Eyes!!!


(paragraphs are our friend)

[ReignOfError]

Picture this: Here you have the spectacle of millionaire screenwriters parading around in a circle outside the studios run by millionare executives.

Hollywood's millionaire writers -- the ones who didn't make their money as actors, directors or producers -- could hold their convention in a minivan.

[Beachcomber]

FYI

[Jack Deth]

First of all. Paragraphs are our friends.

Second:NO ONE CARES!!!

The Corporate Suits of the Hollywood Studios' Parent Compnaies could care less if their writers go on strike. The profit from Hollywood hasn't been all that much to write home about, once the old Hollywood System allowed itself to be bought out to the likes of GE and Sony.

The Hollywood Studio suits are always eager to opt out for more "Reality Based" television series that requires no writing, which is why they were purchased in the first place.

The writers for films are all fully indocrinated to the liberal, PC mindset long before they reach for a pen or sit behind a keyboard. As the slumping numbers for ticket sales for their product has shown for the last decade.

Especially with the latest trend for Hollywood "Movies With A Message" ("The Kingdom", ""The Valley Of Elah", "Lions For Lambs" and the up-coming Brian DePalma turd-in-a-punchbowl, "Rendition") that are breaking records for not being seen.

Let the strike cause the "Domino Effect" downfall of Hollywood. Chances are very good that no one will notice.


Jack.

[bill1952]

ping

[karnage]

I have been a member of the Writers Guild for 26 years. I am not a Marxian slave. The issue of copyright has been discussed many times over the years. It has been difficult to get the writers united behind it, because the studios will never give it up. Politics is always the art of the possible. It is more than possible, it is probable that we will get a reasonable deal that specifies residuals for the new wave of distribution methods. Copyright will return as an issue in the future, but it will be a tough nut to crack.

[Nick5]

I’ve been a member of the WGA for 29 years. I’m not a Marxian slave either. I’m a Freeper, for Gawd’s sake. It’s not ideology. There’s no left or Marxism in it whatsoever. It’s a business negotiation. It’s the free market. We have a service, they want to pay us X for it, we want X+whatever for it, they’re saying no, and we’re doing what everybody knows is the only way to win in any bargaining situation: walk out of the store. If the shopkeeper calls you back in, you win. If not, you lose. That’s the risk we’re all taking. No Karl Marx anywhere to be found in the whole equation.