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Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :

I used the link below purely because of the picture at the top of the article. The article itself is incidental.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/05/hollywood.labor.ap.ap/index.html

These folks write our comedies, dramas, action flicks, horror movies, documentaries, TV shows, anything that requires writing designed to make the viewer feel something. Millions of dollars are paid to these folks, and billions of dollars are ultimately at stake in this strike.

Yet with all those writers, and money involved, that's the best picket sign they could come up with?

I don't know whether to side with the movie executives, or start working on my own movie script. [Wink]

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

It has directness?

Posted by Damien.m (Member # 8462) on :

You're right. Apart from directness that sign is quite pointless. Its not like they really have to tell anyone that they're on strike. Id say most of America already knows.

Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :

I think you vastly overestimate the interest most of America has in writers.

Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :

quote:
Comedy Central has said "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" would likely go into repeats as well.

This is serious.

--j_k

Posted by Selran (Member # 9918) on :

I think that is fairly typical. I can't remember seeing any strike sign that said much more than ON STRIKE.

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

quote:
This is serious.

God help me, I can't hear this in any tone other than that used by the little yellow duck on "WonderPets!"

Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :

This is seeewius. We hab to heeewp dem.

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

quote:
Originally posted by TomDavidson:

quote:
This is serious.
God help me, I can't hear this in any tone other than that used by the little yellow duck on "WonderPets!"

NOooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!! Now I'm hearing it too!!!!!!!! Darn you, Tom, darn you all to heck! [Big Grin]

Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :

Thanks, Tom. I just choked on my buttered toast thanks to you.

--Mel

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

I teared up.

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

Tim Minear said it would be more to the point if their signs were completely blank...

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

Chris, I was about to comment along those lines!

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

There's a Twitter feed for writers' strike news updates, compiled by WritersWrite.com, for anyone interested.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Goody Scrivener:

quote:
Originally posted by TomDavidson:

quote:
This is serious.
God help me, I can't hear this in any tone other than that used by the little yellow duck on "WonderPets!"
NOooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!! Now I'm hearing it too!!!!!!!! Darn you, Tom, darn you all to heck!

*sings*

We have to help them! Let's save the writers! Let's save the writers! [Evil Laugh]

Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :

quote:
Originally posted by TomDavidson:

quote:
This is serious.
God help me, I can't hear this in any tone other than that used by the little yellow duck on "WonderPets!"

I hear it as Wadsworth saying "this is getting serious," on Clue.