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'Fashion Police' Strike: E! President Defends Joan Rivers, Demands WGA Election
ReutersMay 15 (TheWrap.com) - E! president Suzanne Kolb on Wednesday sent a letter to eight striking "Fashion Police" writers, defending the show's host Joan Rivers and insisting on a sanctioned election before it would come to the negotiating table. The...Tags: Strikes, Work Relations, Collective Contract, Elections, Career and Workplace
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'Fashion Police' strike: E! president defends Joan Rivers, demands WGA election
ReutersLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - E! president Suzanne Kolb on Wednesday sent a letter to eight striking "Fashion Police" writers, defending the show's host Joan Rivers and insisting on a sanctioned election before it would come to the negotiating table. The...Tags: Work Relations, Collective Contract, Elections, Career and Workplace, Unions
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Women front 'Nashville' band
Callie Khouri's office is laden with secrets. An emerald-green silk chaise, a Craftsman-style lamp and scattered family heirlooms lend Southern-belle intrigue to the "Nashville" creator's Santa Monica work space. On a shelf rests a silver urn with the...
Tags: Media Industry, Television, Girls (tv program), Scandal (tv program), Grey's Anatomy (tv program)
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Hollywood Trade Groups Tepid About Harvey Weinstein's Royalty Scheme
ReutersMay 08 (TheWrap.com) - Harvey Weinstein's hopes of getting Congress to enact a royalty-based compensation system for movie clips played on the web so far appears to be a long shot. None of the movie industry trade associations are rushing to champion...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Netflix Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
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'Fashion Police' writers go on strike
Writers for "Fashion Police" have walked off the job. Writers on the E! Network cable show hosted by comedian Joan Rivers have gone on strike following a dispute over back wages. The Writers Guild of America, West did not immediately announce the...Tags: Strikes, NBC (tv network), Jimmy Fallon, Television, Labor Legislation
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Don Payne dies at 48; 'Simpsons' writer and producer
Don Payne, an award-winning writer and producer of "The Simpsons" and screenwriter of the 2011 blockbuster "Thor" as well as "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" and "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles, said his friend...Tags: John Payne, Thor (movie), Luke Wilson, Uma Thurman, Entertainment
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Writers Guild Awards date announced: Feb. 1, 2014
The 2014 Writers Guild Awards will be held Saturday, Feb. 1, at ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles, the Writers Guild of America, West and Writers Guild of America, East announced Wednesday. PHOTOS: Hollywood Backlot moments The date is another...Tags: 2014 Winter Olympic Games, Entertainment Events, Academy Awards
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TV writing dominated by white males, but minorities, women gain
Minority and women writers have made modest job gains in the television industry but have a long way to go before the playing field is level. So concludes the latest analysis from the Writers Guild of America, West, which reviewed employment patterns...
Tags: Television, Employment Opportunities, Raising Hope (tv program), Television Industry, Burn Notice (tv program)
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Oscars 2014: Show moves to March, setting up an awards season lull
The Oscars are going to be a little later next year. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday the dates for the next two years' ceremonies — March 2, 2014, and Feb. 22, 2015. With the shift, the 2014 awards season...Tags: Golden Globe Awards, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Entertainment Events, Academy Awards
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Tina Fey kicks off Bravo’s Inside the Actors Studio Season 19
Channel Guide MagazineBravo's long-running series Inside the Actors Studio, and its venerable host James Lipton, will welcome actress, comedian, writer and producer Tina Fey to the stage to kick off its 19th season March 19. Best known to TV fans for her work on Saturday Night... -
Remarkable Woman: Kay Alden Nelson
Kay Alden Nelson's big break into daytime television sounds like a plot out of one of her soap opera scripts. "I was doing a dissertation for my Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin at Madison on how daytime television serials can be used as mediators...
Tags: Another World (tv program), The Bold and the Beautiful (tv program) , University of Wisconsin-Madison, Primetime Emmy Awards, Streeterville
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Oscars 2013 preview: MacFarlane, 'Argo' hope to steal the show
"Argo" heads into Sunday's Oscars with the wind at its back, but Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" has the most nominations of any film -- a dozen. Will Ben Affleck's 1970s Iran drama make it a sweep, or are there some surprises in order? The suspense isn'...
Tags: Robert De Niro, Barbra Streisand, Entertainment Events, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Academy Awards
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