Thursday, November 29, 2007

Broadway returns

One strike ends, the stagehands go back to work, and Broadway is back in business for the holidays.

But the WGA writers strike looks like it may be a long one. On NPR this morning, there was an interesting dissenting opinion from a sometimes Hollywood writer who had very mixed feelings about the strike. Read it here.


The writers' strike basically shapes up as a couple of third cousins at Thanksgiving dinner arguing over who gets a slightly larger slice of the billion dollar pumpkin pie: the writers who create the movies and shows, or the corporations who actually take all the financial risk that allows us Hollywood writers to write in Hollywood in the first place.

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