The AMPTP Greatest Hits Collection compiled by Dana Harris:
One more AMPTP statement, this one sort of a greatest-hits hodgepodge. There's a lot of the Wolper letter, the now-classic David Young quote and their figures on the average WGA salary and how much the strike is costing. Bonus points for enhancing Wolper's Oscars/Olympics metaphor: "It is like the Olympic athlete who trains his or her whole life to compete for a gold medal at the Olympics, only to have the dream dashed because of some politically inspired boycott."
Writers face faceless enemy by Variety Editor-In-Chief Peter Bart (pictured):
Corporations putting Hollywood in check...
"Here's what's creepy about this war," one striking writer told me last week. "I know who my allies are, but I don't really know my enemy."...
Dave McNary has gotten hold of a copy of An AMPTP open letter to the entertainment industry
Not much new here, but the AMPTP does single out three of the six WGA proposals that, according to the AMPTP, have to be taken off the table for negotiations to resume.
Those are areas are jurisdiction over reality and animation, as well as sympathy strikes.
Translation: Take this away and we'll negotiate on new media.
So far, the WGA has shown little interest in this approach -- partly because it has indicated that the AMPTP's mew-media offers aren't close to being acceptable.
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