Thursday, January 10, 2008

Solidarity with the WGA: Better Than Speechless

I'm enjoying Law & Order's take on the writers' strike much more than those weird morose Speechless campaign pieces.

Labels: b.d. wong, chris noth, eric bogosian, katherine erbe, law and order: criminal intent, law and order: svu, wga strike, zeljko ivanek

5 Comments:

Anonymous said...: It’s funny you posted that.

(It ends well – promise! I promise it ends well…)

A Fox employee drove his black Escalade into a picketing Rene Balcer today. (Balcer’s the showrunner for Law & Order and co-creator of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.) The SUV guy knocked Balcer back several feet, then leapt from his car, took a swing at Rene, and shoved him out into the Avenue of the Stars. (No traffic at that moment - whew!) Picketers tried to restrain the driver, but he shook ‘em off and ran back to his car and was quickly waved through the gate by a Fox security guard.

A dear friend of mine has been picketing the Paramount gate 5:30am – noon for the last three months. For about the first six weeks or so he had so much fun – met tons of new people, lots of beer and donuts. Now it just sucks.

Word is Tom Hanks got into the mix today and said he's gonna get a cadre of mega A list actors together to pressure the Producers back to the negotiating table… we'll see…

That aside – I’m watching the last new ep of Grey’s Anatomy right now and Patty Griffin just came in singing “Up to the Mountain” and I squeeeaaled! Love love love me some Patty:); January 10, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Maisy said...: I hadn't seen this. Love it.; January 10, 2008 at 10:24 PM
lp said...: I heard about Rene Balcer and the weird Fox episode. I also have friends who are picketing - it sounds like a drag.

Grey's Anatomy is where you and most of America and I divide. I can't stand those whiners. I don't know why - I put up with a lot on other shows - but for some reason Ellen Pompeo and her navel gazing horrendous little voice overs make me want to puke.; January 10, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Lisa Hornung said...: "Is this the uh, library?"
Too funny.; January 11, 2008 at 2:12 PM
Anonymous said...: Without their words, we can not be hypnotized by voyeristic plots, not so truncated scenes, attractive but never completely understood recurrent characters...god where is a good book when I need one.; January 11, 2008 at 6:32 PM