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Pamm Fair, deputy national executive director of the Screen Actors Guild, is resigning. Fair, the longtime head of SAG's government affairs, will step down by the end of the year, a person close to SAG said. SAG officials declined to...
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Actors who perform in the burgeoning video game industry have rejected a proposed new contract, sending their leaders back to the bargaining table. Screen Actors Guild members, voting in secret ballots in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and San Francisco,...
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Hollywood's smallest and most vulnerable players are getting some parental help from Sacramento. For years, parents have complained to the L.A. city attorney's office and the Better Business Bureau about the unscrupulous practices of talent listing services and acting schools...
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The Screen Actors Guild board of directors has appointed David P. White as the national executive director and chief negotiator for Hollywood's largest union. The appointment of White, who had been serving as interim executive director, was widely anticipated after...
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The party wins but one of its leaders gets left in the cold? That's one of the surprising outcomes from yesterday's Screen Actors Guild election. The so-called moderate faction known as Unite for Strength garnered a big victory yesterday when...
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That's the second big win for Ken Howard this week. Members of the Screen Actors Guild have elected the veteran character actor, who just won won an Emmy on Sunday for his role in HBO's "Grey Gardens, as the union's...
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John Wells fired back at the outgoing president of the Writers Guild of America, West, accusing Patric M. Verrone of lying about his involvement in last year's contract negotiations. Verrone and John Bowman, who chaired the guild's negotiating committee last...
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Ken Howard is running for president of the Screen Actors Guild as head of the Unite for Strength ticket, the group of moderates seeking to strengthen their hold on the national board. A current Emmy nominee for best supporting actor...
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Hollywood's largest actors union strongly endorsed a new film and TV contract, closing the chapter on a year-long dispute with the major studios. The vote, which was expected to be close, drew a stronger show of support from the membership...
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The Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors has approved its proposed contract with the Alliance of Motion Pictures & Television Producers by a 53% margin and will present the deal to its membership for ratification. The new contract with producers, as approved Sunday night at a meeting of...
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After three days of talks with the Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood's producers have issued a "last, best and final offer" to actors that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers says contains significant concessions. "The AMPTP made these enhancements in an effort to...
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Sunday night’s simulcast of the Screen Actors Guild Awards on TBS and TNT drew the smallest audience since the two networks began airing them together in 2006. TNT, which had telecast the show exclusively from 1998 through 2005, posted a 0.9 rating/2 share among adults 18 to 49 and 2.8 million viewers...
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HBO was the leader among TV networks in nominations for the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, announced Thursday morning. The cable network led the way with nine nominations, followed by broadcast leader NBC with eight, ABC with seven and Showtime with six. Broadcast and cable networks were equally...
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A moderate faction has won control of the Screen Actors Guild's national board, a development that appears to make the possibility of an actors strike even less likely. The slate of candidates, known as Unite for Strength, won six of 11 seats on the board, according to election results announced...