Battle Lines Drawn Over Whether WGA Should Target Oscar |
| Published: December 23, 2007, 6:02 am |
| Tags: ampas, david poland, davidpoland, nikki finke, nikkifinke, wga |
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Filed under: Awards, Deals, Celebrities and Controversy, Politics, Oscar WatchI haven't been following the strike issue nearly as close as I'd like, but I'm starting to get increasingly interested as it looks like there's less and less chance of a deal being cut to spare the Golden Globes and Academy Awards from the wrath of the writers. David Poland's blog is the place for some entertaining commentary on this issue. Like everyone else, he doesn't care about whether or not the Globes goes on, but he's absolutely enraged at the thought of Oscar being put in the crosshairs next. "There is a world of difference between f*cking with 100 'foreigners' with the collective journalistic weight of a sitcom sidekick's blog and taking on 6,000 of the town's most powerful people," he writes. He goes on to explain how the Oscar ceremony is a critical income generator for the AMPAS and attempting to derail it is tantamount to a declaration of war. "If the union tries to shut down Oscar, they will be [ Full article ] |
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