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Scrapped Golden Globe ceremony hits Hollywood hard
Yahoo News/ Reuters ^
| Tue Jan 8, 10:06 PM ET 2008
| Jill Serjeant
Posted on 01/09/2008 12:14:44 PM PST by Mad Dawgg
Scrapped Golden Globe ceremony hits Hollywood hard --- REUTERS
By Jill Serjeant
Tue Jan 8, 10:06 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood scrambled on Tuesday to assess the fallout from the decision to scrap the glittering Golden Globe movie and TV awards ceremony and hold only a news conference that few stars are likely to attend.
Caterers, limousine drivers, stylists, hotels and dozens of magazines and TV shows found themselves out of work when this Sunday's star-studded Golden Globes gala dinner and red carpet walk-up fell victim to the nine-week-old screenwriters strike.
"There are a lot of people being hurt by this," said Jack Kyser, chief economist for the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. He estimated the Golden Globes annually bring in $70-$80 million to the Los Angeles economy.
"A lot of the parties are being canceled and they can run up to $200,000 each. There is a big ripple impact from this in terms of hotel bookings, security guards, parking attendants, beauticians etc.," Kyser said.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: goldenglobes; hollywierd; hollywood; movies; unions; wga
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Hmmm, I wonder if all those "little people" not getting to work will harm the plight of those poor "underpaid" writers?
Or do you think they will embrace Solidarity?
Writers going on strike makes about as much sense to me as pro baseball players going on strike.
The Older I get the less the world makes sense to me...
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:14:48 PM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
To: Mad Dawgg
Does it make me a bad person if I'm sort of....enjoying this?
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:16:32 PM PST
by
Allegra
(AACCK! Back in Iraq...how'd that happen so fast??)
To: Mad Dawgg
No bad skanky actresses in bad dresses.
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:16:41 PM PST
by
AU72
To: Mad Dawgg
The real question is what volume of Greenhouse Gases will not be produced by the cancellation of this worthless event?
The Golden Globes award show being canceled by Hollywood might just be the tipping point to sent us all into the next ICE AGE!
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:17:47 PM PST
by
frogjerk
To: Allegra
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:18:16 PM PST
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3rd Bn. 5th Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
To: Mad Dawgg
I’m almost in tears........perhaps I could run for President......or Louisiana governor......
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:18:26 PM PST
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: Allegra
If enjoying this makes you a bad person, it makes me one, too! I’m lovin’ it!
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:18:40 PM PST
by
Theresawithanh
(This is my tagline. FRED!!!!!!)
To: Allegra
Does it make me a bad person if I'm sort of....enjoying this? Not in the least. Canceling a Hollywood Meat Parade is a good thing.
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:19:23 PM PST
by
frogjerk
To: Mad Dawgg
A lot of the parties are being canceled and they can run up to $200,000 each
Oh freaking WOW!
We had all best buy gold and stock groceries; the economy is going to crash!
please stay out until ..... well, forever.
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:19:33 PM PST
by
bill1952
(The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
To: Allegra
"Does it make me a bad person if I'm sort of....enjoying this?" If it does then we will branded with the same iron!
I believe the term is schadenfreude!
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:19:37 PM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
To: Mad Dawgg
Did anyone really watch this Golden Globe stuff anyway? I sat there and thought back for 30 years...I’ve never watched a single one. I can’t think of a reason why I’d watch it. I’d rather watch a repeat of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea...than watch the Golden Globe.
To: Mad Dawgg
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:19:56 PM PST
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
To: Mad Dawgg
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch......I can’t contain my enjoyment at this..........
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:20:37 PM PST
by
rockabyebaby
(PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR INFIDEL STEPHENJOHNBANKER)
To: AU72
“No bad skanky actresses in bad dresses.”
Or actors.
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:21:09 PM PST
by
Rb ver. 2.0
(Global warming is the new Marxism.)
To: Mad Dawgg
This is as tragic as Hurricane Katrina and the Indian Ocean tsunami, only even more devastating.
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:21:15 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: pepsionice
VTTBOTS had better looking women.
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:21:24 PM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Allegra
‘Does it make me a bad person if I’m sort of....enjoying this?’
No, it just means you and I were probably seperated at birth....(chuckle)
The only Golden Globes I have interest in are those on young ‘healthy’ women with a tan.
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:21:29 PM PST
by
Badeye
(No thanks, Huck, I'm not whitewashing the fence for you this election cycle)
To: rockabyebaby
"Couldnt have happened to a nicer bunch......I cant contain my enjoyment at this.........." Maybe we will get a twofer and they will cancel the Oscars also!
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:22:27 PM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
To: pepsionice
1) I had a Seascape submarine when I was a kid.
2) Ain't Union Labor the greatest?
If you want America to Work Less, Just Say "Union, Yes!"
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:22:28 PM PST
by
Bosco
(Remember how you felt on September 11?)
To: bill1952
When it doesn’t snow here the grocery stores lose money on bread and milk sales but I haven’t heard them whining about it .
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posted on
01/09/2008 12:22:30 PM PST
by
Rb ver. 2.0
(Global warming is the new Marxism.)
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