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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