Golden Globes Update: Actors and Actresses Refuse to Show Up
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While sites like ours struggle to decide how, in fact, we're going to cover the Golden Globes, Deadline Hollywood tells us that a number of key decisions were made late today. Firstly (and probably the most important), SAG has officially announced that none of the actors or actresses will cross the picket line and attend the awards ceremony on January 13. That was an expected decision, but still one that kind of shocks you. However, DH claims NBC is still moving forward with preparations to air the make-shift ceremony on their network. With who in attendance? Got me.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association issued the following statement: "The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been placed in an extremely difficult position with the ongoing Writers Guild strike. We are making every effort to work out a solution that will permit the Golden Globes to take place with the creative community present to participate. We hope to announce a resolution to this unfortunate predicament on Monday." Personally, I'm not sure what the hell they're going to resolve by Monday, but I would expect NBC to fold and not televise the ceremony. How could they with no one showing up? And how ridiculous would it look if some fat studio exec was standing on stage, handing out award after award to folks who aren't there to accept them? This is what NBC wants the entire country watching? I don't think so.
Here's SAG's statement: "After considerable outreach to Golden Globe actor nominees and their representatives over the past several weeks, there appears to be unanimous agreement that these actors will not cross WGA picket lines to appear on the Golden Globe Awards as acceptors or presenters. We applaud our members for this remarkable show of solidarity for striking Writers Guild of America writers."
And here's the WGA's statement: "We are grateful to our brothers and sisters in SAG for their continued solidarity and support. The entire awards show season is being put in jeopardy by the intransigence of a few big media corporations. We urge the conglomerates to return to the bargaining table they abandoned and negotiate a fair and reasonable deal with writers to put this town back to work."
And here's Nikki Blonsky's statement: "Motherfu**ker son of a b*tch! This was my chance! You fu**kers!"
And here's Cinematical's statement: "We made up Nikki Blonsky's statement, but you have to imagine the poor girl is pretty pissed. Plucked from obscurity to star in Hairspray, nominated for an award, and she can't even show up. We feel you Nikki ... we feel you. Hug?"
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1-04-2008 @ 10:11PM
Philip said...
All except for Jay Leno, eh?
I've noticed you guys haven't been covering that story here.
Jay's off limits or you just didn't think Jay breaking guild rules was a story?
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1-04-2008 @ 11:19PM
MCW said...
Ah, this sucks. All the preparation and excitement about the awards season, and it ends in this. This year, I've grown to love movies more than ever before, and I was actually looking forward to seeing the awards handed out to some of my favorite actors and actresses. Surely, they can come up with some solution. Perhaps the "Family Guy" or "South Park" artists can create cartoonized versions of all of the nominees, and the winners can pre-record their voices to match the car...- oh who am I kidding, they would never do something as awesome as that.
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1-05-2008 @ 11:57AM
Sam said...
Philip maybe u should watch some news before spewing your angst filled rant...
Jay went and talked face to face with WGA West President Patric Verrone and point blank asked if he could us his own monologues for his show. That grease ball Verrone said 'yes'. So don't blame Jay for paying his own writers out of his own pocket, even when they can't write for him, and don't blame him for coming up with his own material when they told him it was okay for him to do so.
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1-05-2008 @ 12:01PM
Erik Davis said...
Philip, we aren't covering Jay Leno because that's more TV than film. But I'm sure you'll find plenty of Leno stuff over on our sister site TV Squad, so feel free to head over there. We're trying to sick with the strike news that's most related to the film world.
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1-05-2008 @ 2:29PM
Philip said...
Sam, maybe you should be more informed before you come here smack-talking someone whose most likely more informed by 6 in the morning than you'll ever be in your insignificant life.
Verrone denied giving him permission to write his own monologue. K?
Check out Nikke Finke's site, then get back to me for that plate of crow. Your mouth could use something else to do.
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1-05-2008 @ 2:54PM
Sam said...
Dude, if all you read is Finke's crap then you're the one that's misinformed. It depends on who you ask as to what permission was given. I'm inclined to believe what Jay said, that he got the okay to do his monologues.
Why do you have such a problem with him? More than likely you're a writer yourself. What's the matter, too much time on your hands? Are you getting tired of eating noodles for lunch and **** for breakfast? Why not go back to writing that Aliens vs Predator 3 script you've got stored on your laptop.
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1-05-2008 @ 4:05PM
Philip said...
Sam, my original intent was not to be "angst-ridden". I'm not in WGA. While I do a little bit of writing, the AVP-R script was not my work, fortunately.
To share a position with you, I agree about Nikki's blog. I certainly don't believe everything I read. But Jay's not writing his own stuff. I don't believe for a minute that one man is writing an hour's worth of stuff every day. Even yet, I wouldn't care about that, except no one really wants to take him to task over it, because he bought some donuts. Right? Like he's the golden boy? And my position all along has been that the Fellowship of the Guilds is merely a fellowship of convenience. When actors start feeling the pinch, we'll see how far you can toss that partnership.
I'm of two minds on the strike, Sam. One side of me hopes the writers get what they are seeking, or a fair semblance of it. But the other side sees this for what it really is: they picked a fight with a bully, and now the bully doesn't wanna play fair. And there is much consternation and gnashing of teeth over it, as if this was a surprise. The man with all the money makes the rules. Hey sorry, I didn't invent that, it's just the way it goes. That, and the big deal they made about Huckabee crossing picket lines, as if to say "Hey! Running for President doesn't trump our strike!"
Oh yeah. i don't eat breakfast Sam. But rest assured I eat plenty of sh*t all day working for my company, as I'm sure most of us do. And don't knock noodles for lunch man. They're good with some butter and ground peppercorn.
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1-05-2008 @ 10:18PM
Sam said...
Ha, I prefer my noodles with ketchup. A poor college student's spaghetti dinner... Man, those were the days...
I'm of two minds on the strike as well. It's hard not to look at this and think the writers have bitten off more than they can chew. I dare say, they have even looked downright childish at times. Still, if I were a writer I would be in full agreement with the hardline strategy that the WGA is taking with the industry. I would also feel very strongly that the picket line should be respected by all union members... What you wrote is true, Jay surely has help with his late nite stuff. I'm not sure what I'd do in his place... Perhaps he is wrong, but it's looks to me like a bit of a gray area...
In any case, this may all be over if what Erik wrote about the UA/Guild deal holds true. If Tom and Paula pulled that one off then the other studios will not have no choice but to fall in line with a deal.
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