Golden Globes Cancelled??

[RockaFowler]

Deadline Hollywood Daily is reporting that NBC may cancel the Golden Globe Awards, but here is an article from Variety describing what is going on so far:

SAG president Alan Rosenberg has announced that not one of the more than 70 actors nominated for a Golden Globe will attend the Jan. 13 ceremonies.
The event's been thrown into turmoil and uncertainty due to the WGA's refusal to grant a strike waiver to Globes producer Dick Clark Prods., which offered to accept the same terms as David Letterman's Worldwide Pants banner. Instead, the guild's asserted that it will picket the Globes, skedded to air on NBC, which has become a prime target of the WGA’s strike campaign in the past few weeks.

Rosenberg, who made the announcement Friday afternoon, has been a staunch supporter of the two-month strike.

"After considerable outreach to Golden Globe actor nominees and their representatives over the past several weeks, there appears to be unanimous agreement that these actors will not cross WGA picket lines to appear on the Golden Globe Awards as acceptors or presenters," he said. "We applaud our members for this remarkable show of solidarity for striking Writers Guild of America writers."

Rosenberg also announced SAG is urging its members to appear on the two Worldwide Pants shows that have waiver deals with the WGA -- "Late Show with David Letterman" and "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" -- but indicated they should avoid other shows. That would include "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," although Rosenberg did not specify any other show by name.

"Actors who are asked to appear on the struck network talk shows will have to cross WGA picket lines, creating the same situation that has led to the consensus among actors to skip the golden Globes," Rosenberg said. "As I have said since this strike began on November 5th, we must stand united with our brothers and sisters at the WGA."

[Mike03]

1. Let's hope so

the Golden Globes are totally corrupt, bought and paid for by expensive studio sponsored gifts--like Rolex watches--to "movie reviewers" bought off by the studios.

[myrna minx]

4. Pia Zadora disagrees with you, dahrling.

:D

[Mike03]

7. Lol, I'm sure she does.

IMHO, the Peoples' Choice Awards are a better reflection of what movie-goers think about the films. The industry does care what people think. And the Academy Awards are a reflection of what other filmmakers think about the films.

[myrna minx]

8. I'm actually rather weary of award shows all together.

I mean they give awards to award shows. How MC Escher is that? :-)

[Fierce]

2. Solidarity!

Excellent!

[RockaFowler]

3. I agree

If the actors continue to hold out (Julia Louis Dreyfus is a good example), the writers may get a good shot at what they need.

The studios are real jerks, in my opinion. They are making loads of money on these shows and they cannot give an inch - it seems like.

[annabanana]

5. Good for them! Keep the pressure on.

Worldwide Pants came to the table, talked business and got results. It's time for the troglodites to get with the program.

(You can help by writing to the production companies about how much you miss your favorite show here: http://firedoglake.com/wga/index.php/write/compose )

[myrna minx]

6. Yay! This is looking like a very effective strike.

Who would have though that it would be the WGA to turn the spotlight of importance of unions and solidarity back to the USA. :toast: to the strikers.