strike stuff

[gwynnega]

This morning when I was turning onto Franklin Ave in my neighborhood, I suddenly saw about fifty picketing writers. At first I wondered why they were picketing in a residential area. Cars were honking their support, and as I turned the corner, one of the writers mimed honking a car horn, and I saw a motorcycle cop, and out of the corner of my eye I saw what was going on: a crew was attempting to film outside a nearby house. Lots of location shoots go on in this neighbhorhood, but what with all the honking horns (including mine), I don't think they were gonna manage to get any work done today!

In other strike news, the writing team of The Young & the Restless have denied breaking the strike, contradicting Variety's story of yesterday. According to United Hollywood, it's a non-writing Y&R producer (who had WGA membership) who opted to write for the show, not a member of the writing team. Which begs the question: did one of the execs' cronies leak the story to Variety, hoping to put a damper on the WGA's morale?

Comments

[10zlaine.livejournal.com]

I'm still watching yesterday's RH...boy, you were not exaggerating ONE BIT about how awesome Delia and Roger are together. It amazes me how much better actors are when they are in a scene with Ron Hale. Not that she's awful, by any means, but he has a way of bringing out good performance in his costars.

[gwynnega]

And the Roger/Delia just gets better and better! Ilene Kristen is awesome, but it's hard to be awesome in scenes with Frank #1, who had all the charisma of a baked potato. Ron Hale does bring out the best in a lot of his costars, but he has especially great chemistry with IK...

[usedtobeljs]

Did you see that John Edwards is going to walk the picket line with writers on Friday?

Otherwise and also, hugs.

[gwynnega]

Oh, cool! I didn't know that! :-)

::hugs::