We don’t know much about what’s going on in the SAG and AMPTP talks but according to Daily Variety, the studio’s ‘final offer’ is now on the table. With SAG’s feature-primetime contract expiring, the majors have turned up the pressure by making the guild a final offer with increases valued at over $250 million over [...]

Below is the latest email blast sent to SAG member actors with an update on negotiations with the AMPTP: June 29, 2008 To all SAG members: Thank you, SAG members! Thousands of you have signed the “Solidarity Statement” over the past four days. In fact, we are working hard to keep up with the overwhelming [...]

So, I did what any deep thinking actor would do…I hovered my pencil over the ballot and, in a ouija board like moment, I let the pencil decide on my vote. So don’t blame me, actors who support the AFTRA deal, my pencil said NO. Actually I spent time reading through the contract summary, spent [...]

As I sit and ponder just how I should vote on the AFTRA contract it seems that it’s a good time for some humor. Today’s Austin American Statesman has a feature story about a couple of Austin women who have started their own humor blog called MIDLIFE GALS. Check out this video from the site: [...]

I haven’t posted anything here recently about the ongoing ‘talks’ between SAG and the AMPTP because there really hasn’t been anything new to report. SAG is more or less vamping with the AMPTP while they work furiously to convince dual guild members like myself to vote down the AFTRA agreement. Yes, I received one of [...]

When Preston Jones died in 1979 at the age of 43 he left behind a legacy in writing that is so rich that is remains as relevant today as it was in the 1970′s. That was one of the overriding impressions that struck me as I viewed Contemporary Theater of Dallas‘ production of Jones’ THE [...]

Can it be that thirty something years have passed since I first walked through the doors of the Kalita Humphreys theater at the Dallas Theater Center, a nervous, totally green ‘actor’ straight out of Beaumont, Texas? It’s so hard to believe, but facts are facts and three decades have indeed since passed. How lucky I [...]

Don’t hold your breath for a resolution between SAG and the AMPTP before the June 30th contract expiration. With SAG lambasting the AFTRA agreement and attempting to derail ratification of that agreement, there will be no settlement until the outcome of the AFTRA deal is known. As Daily Variety says in today’s online edition: With [...]

The kind of nastiness born of contract negotiations gone sour, a nastiness that tends to turn off the general public and give credence to those predisposed to anti-union sentiment, was brought to the streets of Hollywood yesterday with the SAG rally, ostensibly in support of the SAG negotiating team, but really in opposition to ratification [...]