The Writers Guild is taking its first step toward a potential industry strike.
The union has set a strike authorization vote, with online polls opening April 11 at 8:30 p.m. and closing April 17 at 12 p.m., the guild announced to members on Monday. While a strike authorization vote does not ensure a writers strike will occur, it does gauge members’ willingness to cease work if the union deems a strike necessary. If a large portion of members supports a potential strike, that could improve writers’ leverage in their ongoing talks with the studios and streamers. As such, the guild was widely expected to call the vote at some point during a round of negotiations that many members consider pivotal for shoring up the future of their profession.
“The studios need to respond to the crisis writers face. WGA members must demonstrate our willingness to fight for the contract writers need...
The union has set a strike authorization vote, with online polls opening April 11 at 8:30 p.m. and closing April 17 at 12 p.m., the guild announced to members on Monday. While a strike authorization vote does not ensure a writers strike will occur, it does gauge members’ willingness to cease work if the union deems a strike necessary. If a large portion of members supports a potential strike, that could improve writers’ leverage in their ongoing talks with the studios and streamers. As such, the guild was widely expected to call the vote at some point during a round of negotiations that many members consider pivotal for shoring up the future of their profession.
“The studios need to respond to the crisis writers face. WGA members must demonstrate our willingness to fight for the contract writers need...
- 4/3/2023
- by Katie Kilkenny
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bob Dylan has been relatively tight-lipped about the people he has dated. He has had multiple romantic relationships, though.
Bob Dylan | Kevin Winter/Getty Images for AFI Barbara Ann Hewitt
Long before he was famous, Dylan was a high school student in Minnesota who had fallen in love with his classmate. He wrote many love letters to his then-girlfriend, Barbara Ann Hewitt.
Collection of love letters written by Bob Dylan sold for $670K https://t.co/EZt93oqhcT pic.twitter.com/Rpon6ksvBY
— New York Post (@nypost) November 20, 2022
The letters, in which Dylan invites Hewitt to events and writes about the songs he likes, sold for nearly $670,000 at an auction in 2022.
Mavis Staples
Dylan and Mavis Staples played overlapping shows, and Dylan quickly developed a case of what Staples described as “puppy love.” He spoke to her father about proposing, but never did.
“I still have letters that we would write to each other,...
Bob Dylan | Kevin Winter/Getty Images for AFI Barbara Ann Hewitt
Long before he was famous, Dylan was a high school student in Minnesota who had fallen in love with his classmate. He wrote many love letters to his then-girlfriend, Barbara Ann Hewitt.
Collection of love letters written by Bob Dylan sold for $670K https://t.co/EZt93oqhcT pic.twitter.com/Rpon6ksvBY
— New York Post (@nypost) November 20, 2022
The letters, in which Dylan invites Hewitt to events and writes about the songs he likes, sold for nearly $670,000 at an auction in 2022.
Mavis Staples
Dylan and Mavis Staples played overlapping shows, and Dylan quickly developed a case of what Staples described as “puppy love.” He spoke to her father about proposing, but never did.
“I still have letters that we would write to each other,...
- 3/20/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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