Posted on 01/13/2008 9:19:38 AM PST by abb
Longtime Hollywood publicist Julian Myers will turn 90 soon. And he worries the end may be near ... for Hollywood.
Myers frets that the WGA stalemate -- with all of its acrimony, vitriol and job losses -- is a harbinger of ill things for the industry.
"The strike impasse is speeding the end of Hollywood filmmaking and television production," says Myers, who has been working in the biz since 1939 and is still an IATSE member. "There are more union contracts coming up for renewal, and already unionists are crossing union lines. IATSE is urging its members to go right on through. Insults are being exchanged, faces will be bashed and fatalities are a possibility."
Myers, of course, remembers when such confrontations were more common. He recalls participating in a 1946 strike in which 900 unionists were arrested in front of Warner Bros. Studios and bussed off to a Burbank jail.
Now, with tensions again running high, Myers worries that the town might be consumed.
"Does a dying Hollywood need a civil war today to hasten its erosion?" he asks.
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“The strike impasse is speeding the end of Hollywood filmmaking and television production,”
Someone is still going to make films and in some way they will be distributed. Shoot, maybe it’s a good time to get in.
Not only that, but continue to put their anti-war drivel out there in movies which don't sell. It's their own fault. If they'd get over themselves and put out pro-American films and quit their immoral spouting, they might do better in the box office.
I’m a 24 fan, and read that Season 7 is delayed indefinitely because of the WGA strike. I want my Jack Bauer fix.
Oh, I sincerely hope so!! I’m sick of this leftist haven of self-centered, self-involved jerks!
The television and film industry is not going away anytime soon.
The industry is actually faced with an historic opportunity.
If they are brave enough to fire all the writers and go non-union with all their labor they can reduce their overhead dramatically.
By forging relationships with cable providers they can leverage on-demand services to sell their content almost directly to consumers on a grand scale.
The decreasing expense and improved quality of CGI and other software could also drive lower film and TV budgets.
Hollywood will be around as long as fools are willing to part with their money for the trash produced. They’ve hung in this long and will probably find some way to adjust to get still more money from those who wish to be victims.
There are plenty of good movies every year. It’s the fools who don’t seek them out.
CGI has single handedly killed action movies. It’s OK for TV shows but unless used with discretion. as in Zodiac, it screams ‘fake’.
You call this NEWs? LOL There is nothing on TV to watch and movies are so often just flops, too. Can count great movies on two hands: Casa Blanca, Gone With The Wind, Rebel Without a Cause, The Notebook, Patton, Rear Window, Notorious, etc.
We may finally get rid of these self-congratulating, anti-American, immoral, drug and alcohol addicted, uneducated, big mouth, Hollyflake socialists.
Just damn! My first ticket from the Posting Police.
LOL!!! That's the only regular TV show that we watch - and I miss it too.
Goodbye and good riddance. They can search for their lost jobs somewhere “over the rainbow.”
Nothing personal. That was a good thread.
Wow — you’ve been here since 2000 and only just got your first? You’re my hero! LOL!!!
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