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Oslo Horror Rattles Filmmaker
THE REPORT: The July 22 terrorist attack in Norway struck a chilling chord with "Elevator" director Stig Svendsen.
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COMMENTARY: Stanley Kramer’s 1960 masterpiece ‘Inherit the Wind’ still relevant
CommentarY: To my mind, Hollywood's greatest visionary was Stanley Kramer, the writer, director and producer whose "Inherit the Wind" celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, writes David Robb.
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Attention, talent: Guilds may have your unclaimed residuals
Commentary: Hollywood's guilds, unions and collection societies are sitting on a gold mine of unclaimed residuals and royalties. They're holding more than $150 million for tens of thousands of actors, writers, directors and musicians they're trying to locate.
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50 years ago, a racially divided Hollywood
Fifty years ago this week, Sammy Davis Jr. was roundly booed during the opening ceremony of the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. The incident was one of the saddest moments in the entertainer's life and pointed up the deep racial divide that was threatening to rip apart the Democratic Party and the country.
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Suffering continues for paralyzed ex-stuntwoman
Commentary: Heidi von Beltz is still one of the coolest chicks in Hollywood.
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Hollywood films missing U.S. union logos
Commentary: American films are littered with logos, but the only union labels you'll see in the end credits of movies produced by the Hollywood studios and major production companies are ones for unions that are wholly or partly Canadian.
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Commentary: Nancy Reagan deserves SAG nod
No other actress has ever become first lady. That alone qualifies Nancy Reagan for SAG's Life Achievement Award, which honors "outstanding achievement in fostering the finest ideals of the acting profession."
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U.S. colleges cutting theater programs
In another sign of troubled times for "the theater," colleges and universities nationwide are cutting back on drama programs or eliminating theater departments altogether.
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Commentary: Prod’n assistants need pay
They are Hollywood's migrant workers, the gofers, the errand boys, the Girls Friday. They are Hollywood's production assistants, the lowest-paid workers on the set -- if paid at all -- and the only ones without a union, the only ones no union even wants to bother with. In Hollywood's caste system, they are the untouchables.
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Commentary: SAG, AFTRA should merge
Now that they've agreed to stop their bickering and return to the bargaining table to jointly negotiate their contracts, it's time for SAG to AFTRA to take that final step: They need to get married.
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AMPTP chief Nick Counter remembered
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.
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Remembering Mr. Heston
When I first started covering the Hollywood labor beat for The Hollywood Reporter in 1981, the Screen Actors Guild was embroiled in a bitter internal political battle between SAG president Ed Asner and former SAG president Charlton Heston. An outspoken critic of the policies of another former SAG president -- then U.S. President Ronald Reagan -- Asner was my kind of guy -- a good liberal and a good union man.
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