More from Daniel Holloway, Back Stage
USAN SAG Faction Announces NY Candidates
Among the candidates on the pro-merger group’s slate is comedian and "Daily Show" contributor Lewis Black. Meanwhile, WGA West announces final candidate list, with little change from initial list.
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Lawyer Charged With Embezzling From Dancers
Leonard Leibowitz was accused of pilfering $150,000 from Independent Artists of America between 1997 and 2005.
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AFTRA Dominates Third Straight TV Pilot Season
Seventy of the 80 pilots ordered by broadcast networks are covered by the performers’ union, indicating SAG’s continued decline.
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Is MTV’s ‘Skins’ Child Pornography? A Legal Expert Weighs In
The legal debate continues over whether the show is child porn.
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Casting Directors Receive Death Threat
Teamsters Local 399 warns of danger; 6 CD's received threatening phone calls.
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Unions, producers get negotiation party started
Actors' unions, AMPTP hammering out contracts Sept. 27.
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SAG Election a Mandate for Merger
In a Screen Actors Guild election that was widely considered a referendum on merger with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, proponents of that idea emerged with a clear mandate.
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GLAAD: Only 6 disabled primetime characters
But 'CSI's' Robert David Hall is only actor who is actually disabled.
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GLAAD: Only 6 disabled primetime characters
There are 587 series-regular roles on scripted network primetime television this fall. Only six of them have disabilities. Only one of those six is portrayed by a disabled actor.
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AFTRA:Teamsters Talks Continue
Negotiators for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists’ Los Angeles local and Teamsters Local 399 will continue talks today on a new contract for 11 AFTRA-employed business representatives covered by the Teamsters, according to a source close to the negotiations. The business reps have been working without a contract since Sept. 5.
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Unions, producers get negotiation party started
In 2008 -- on the heels of the Writers Guild of America strike -- the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists parted ways in one of the more contentious rounds of union negotiations in recent Hollywood history.
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