Nov 08, 2009

AMPTP chief Nick Counter dies Nick Counter and I started our jobs dealing with Hollywood unions in the same week in the spring of 1982 -- he as president of the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers and me as a labor reporter. Nick gave me my first big interview. The box office was booming that year, but when I went to interview Nick at his office in the Valley, he pointed out that film rentals -- that portion of box office receipts that are returned to the studios--...More