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Vincent Kartheiser - "Mad Men" Tv Series Picket for WGA Writer's Strike - Watch The Video

Webmaster — 2008-04-08T13:31:56Z

Summer Glau - WGA Strike November 2007 - Good Quality Photos

Webmaster — 2008-03-01T20:11:28Z

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The Network-The Rebel Alliance Supporting the WGA Writers - Watch The Video

Webmaster — 2008-02-22T20:43:33Z

Joss Whedon - "Negotiations" Short Film - How Joss Whedon helped

Webmaster — 2008-02-20T14:49:38Z

Negotiations is a short film done by a pair of my friends who entered a contest (the deadline is on the 20th, so feel free to watch, give it a good rating and the like).

A crowd stands outside the NBC studios building, protesting the unfairness of the deal given to the writers. A thin, lanky young man comes out and shakes his head.

The strikers slam their signs down in frustration. One of those protesters happen to be Mr. Joss Whedon himself.

Whedon is typically behind the camera. So what the heck was he doing in front of it ?

Turns out, he was a mere extra in a short film written by an out-of-work kid down on his luck who just survived a scary car accident. Oh, and he's in Jersey (that's New Jersey to y'all - don't hold it against him). He conceptualized this film but it only took off when he collaborated with a friend of his. Who happened to be in California.

The two have never met in person.

Scott (the Jersey boy) and Joey (the LA dude) pounded out a script and roped in some people to get involved in their project.

Of course, the "casting" of Whedon was totally unplanned. After Joey shot the film and roped in some actors (besides Whedon, the film includes Jamie Paglia, Eric Wallace, Ed Quinn and Dylan Ramsey), he had to give the good news to his collaborator.

Joey called Scott and said, "Are you sitting down ? Guess who just filmed a part for the movie ?" After a beat : "Joss Whedon."

"That's where I went through denial and shock. At first, I thought it was some elaborate prank," said Scott. "My birthday was coming up, and I'm definitely a huge 'Buffy' fan. So this had to be a joke ... I had just watched an episode of 'Buffy' the night before and have been studying his writing style for a while now ... so to hear he had agreed to be in a movie that I had helped develop ... it still hasn't sunk in."

Now that the Writer's Strike is over, Joss Whedon can go back to his other projects - rather than slaving away for free for a pair of nobodies on opposite sides of the continent.

Scott and Joey can look forward to trying to get some work, too. "My only hope now is that I can get the opportunity to thank Joss personally some time," said Scott. "[Seeing] him alongside Joey in that opening scene is one of the greatest moments in my career so far. Hopefully one day I'll get to work for him."

Negotiations is doing well, but if you want to continue to express your support, root for a pair of underdogs, and throw some Joss love our way, go and watch the film, vote for it and critique Mr. Whedon's acting abilities !

Follow the link below or let's hope my embedding trick works...either way, give the video a look. I think you'll like it.

Joss Whedon - "Writers Guild of America" Strike - Negotiations (United Hollywood Contest Entry)

Webmaster — 2008-02-11T20:45:49Z

Joss Whedon - Spooky Weds and Sci Fi Day Strike

Webmaster — 2008-02-10T20:43:00Z

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http://www.mycelebrityencounters.com/spookywedandscifidaystrike.php - News / Group 2007-11-00 : Writers Guild of America (WGA) Strike

Joss Whedon - "Writers Guild of America" Strike - Wgastrike2007.blogspot.com Interview

Webmaster — 2008-02-09T17:30:52Z

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http://wgastrike2007.blogspot.com/2008/02/wsc-show-91-interviews-with-joss-whedon.html - Interviews / Group 2007-11-00 : Writers Guild of America (WGA) Strike

Joss Whedon - "Writers Guild of America" Strike - He climbs the Ramparts

Webmaster — 2008-02-08T20:01:13Z

The Buffy creator issues a rallying cry to striking writers.

Game over ? The drumroll, please, as the Writers Guild prepares to brief members on Saturday on the deal that may end the strike.

It surprises naive Hollywoodland to see Sid Ganis, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, shrieking in Variety that the guild hasn't given a verdict on the fate of the Oscars. The guild has said publicly and repeatedly that it won't grant a waiver if there's no deal. If, on Saturday, the deal is greeted with thunderous applause, the Oscars will go forward.

Really, Sid, these folks have staked their livelihoods, and in some cases forfeited a fortune, in the hope of getting a deal that means something to them. Why would they stop now and say, "OK—we're giving up what leverage we have in holding the fate of the Oscars over ABC's head, because …" Because why ?

We refer to a post by writer Joss Whedon on the United Hollywood Web site, which hints that he still feels he has some vampire slaying to do. Speaking of the Oscar telecast, he writes : "[It's] a f%$#ing awards show. It's a vanity fair. It's a blip. We're fighting (fighting, remember ?) for the future of our union, our profession, our art. If that fight carries us through the Holy Night when Oscar was born, that's just too bad."

Whedon obviously fears that strike fatigue has reached such a degree that writers will applaud thunderously even if the deal isn't good. He inveighs against that. "This is not over," he writes, perhaps with more hope than reason. "Nor is it close. Until the moment it is over, it can never be close. Because if we see the finish line we will flag and they are absolutely counting on us to do that. … Remember what they've done. Remember what they're trying to take from us. FIGHT. FIGHT. FIGHT."

Keep your ears open on Saturday night. Listen and try to figure out : Is that the sound of thunder, or thunderous applause ?

From Joss Whedon : Do Not Adjust Your Mindset

Webmaster — 2008-02-07T20:55:15Z

This was submitted by WGA and DGA member Joss Whedon.

Dear Writers,

I have good news. I have lots of good news. In fact, I have way too much good news.

The strike is almost over. A resolution is days away. Weeks. Friday. Valentine's day. Two weeks exactly from whenever my manager/agent/lawyer told me. Yes, after talking to writers and actors all over town, I'm happy to report that the strike is going to end every single day until March. Huzzah ! All of this entirely reliable information means that at last the dream of the writing community has been realized : the Oscars will be saved.

Let's step back.

The Oscars seem to be the point of focus for a lot of this speculation. That either they must be preserved, or that the studios feel they must be preserved, and therefore this terrible struggle will end. There is an argument to be made for wanting the show to go on : it showcases the artists with whom we are bonded (there's no award for Best Hiding of Net Profits), and it provides employment and revenue for thousands in the community that has been hit so hard by this action. Having said that, it's a f%$#ing awards show. It's a vanity fair. It's a blip. We're fighting (fighting, remember ?) for the future of our union, our profession, our art. If that fight carries us through the Holy Night when Oscar was born, that's just too bad.

And the studios ? Well, the Oscars provide advertising revenue and a boost for the films that win. But the studios have shown impressive resolve in ignoring short-term losses in order to destroy us. I don't hear any knees knocking in the Ivory Towers over that night of programming. Hey, I wish I did. I wish, like a lot of people, I could hear anything from in there besides that weird clicking sound Predator makes.

I ask you all to remember : the studios caused an industry-wide shutdown. They made a childishly amateurish show of pretending to negotiate, then retreated into their lairs (yes, they have lairs) to starve us out. They emerged just before Christmas to raise our hopes, then left in a premeditated huff. They Force Majoured with gay abandon, cutting deals and 'trimming the fat' (I've met a couple of 'the fat' on the picket lines. Nice guys.) and made every selfish, counter-intuitively destructive move in the Bully's Bible. They met with the DGA and resolved quickly, as expected.

We have been advised to tone down the anti-studio rhetoric now that a deal might be progressing. Our negotiators have the specific task of forgetting the past and dealing only with the numbers before them. Their ability to do that impresses me greatly, but I maintain that it's their job to treat the studios like business partners and it's our job to remember who they really are. The studios are inefficient, power-hungry, thieving corporate giants who have made the life of the working writer harder from decade to decade. They are run by men so out of touch with basic humanity that they would see Rome burn before they would think about the concept of fair compensation. I maintain that they have never revealed their true agenda in the causing and handling of this strike, and to expect them to now is cock-eyed optimism of the most dangerous kind.

I have heard people both in and out of the industry say, "But that's enough now, right ?" I have seen the thing I fear most : that whatever their agenda, they are beating us down. With hope. With rumors. With Time. The mindset seems to be shifting to one of relief and even unspoken gratitude for their return, instead of flaming indignation that they ever (illegally, do you recall ?) left the table in the first place. It's the mindset of the victim. The lethargy of limb that strikes the fighter as he unconsciously lets himself lose. The studio strategists have worked this scenario as carefully as they have everything else. It is so crucial that we outside of the talks remember that, and let them know we do.

This is not over. Nor is it close. Until the moment it is over, it can never be close. Because if we see the finish line we will flag and they are absolutely counting on us to do that. In the room, reason. On the streets, on the net, I say reason is for the 'moderates'. Remember what they've done. Remember what they're trying to take from us. FIGHT. FIGHT. FIGHT.

I have been mugged an embarrassing number of times, even for a New Yorker. I've been yelled at and chased, beaten down and kicked, threatened with a gun and the only mugger who still hurts my gut is the one who made me shake his hand. Until there is a deal – the right deal, not the DGA deal – held out, let's keep our hands in our pockets or on our signs. Let's not be victims. Let's never.

In solidarity,

Joss Whedon

Jane Espenson - "Writers Guild of America" Strike - The Writer's Life Video Interviews - Watch The Clip

Webmaster — 2008-02-01T08:35:48Z