No movement. That’s all there is to report on the ongoing standoff between SAG and the AMPTP. Trade publications put attendance at Saturday’s SAG membership meeting in Hollywood at 450 – 750, depending on which industry rag you want to believe. The producer-friendly Daily Variety article actually has the attendance at the upper end of [...]

The following letter members received from SAG today reinforces some of the points I was making in my earlier post: BIG PRODUCER$ MONETIZE YOUTUBE CLIP$ July 17, 2008 It’s Not New Media – It’s NOW Media Dear Screen Actors Guild Member, I want to tell you why your national negotiating committee has not accepted the [...]

If there were any doubt that SAG leadership would do anything to avoid asking SAG membership for a strike authorization vote, just look at the course the SAG and AMPTP negotiations are taking. A story in Saturday’s Daily Variety online lays out the scenario: In a move that will unnerve Hollywood, the longtime feud between [...]

Fire officials said Monday that Sunday’s backlot inferno at Universal was accidentally started by workers using a blowtorch to heat asphalt shingles being applied to a structure. The accident sparked a fire that tore through the Universal backlot and faux cityscape Sunday. Also Monday, Uni officials said firefighters had managed to save the courthouse facade [...]

A fire broke out at the Universal Studios backlot before dawn this morning, spreading to encompass more than two city blocks. While the fire has been nearly contained, the studio’s video vault was damaged and still burning as of 9:30 am PST. A Los Angeles Fire Dept. spokesman said he expected that the blaze would [...]

While I’m waiting for some responses to my SAG / SAG Eligible post, I’m going to post something based on search terms someone out there in internet land used to make their way to my blog: Someone was looking for information on getting into acting after the age of 30. Now generally this is not [...]

The chariot race in Ben-Hur remains one of the most vivid of all the movie sequences running through my head. Whether you agreed with his politics or not, Charlton Heston remains one of the greatest of all the Hollywood actors, primarily on the strength of his many Heroic characters. Daily Variety The Hollywood Reporter IMDB

Here’s a link to INTERVIEWING HOLLYWOOD, a terrific site I literally stumbled upon. The title really does describe the purpose of the web site…interviews with scores of actors, writers, directors, producers and other filmmakers. I suggest you bookmark this site and visit it often. To start you off, since this is an acting site, is [...]