Those wishing for a two hour Academy Award telecast have just been given their wish, apparently, by the WGA this evening. Here’s the announcement coincident with the “big meeting” in the Santa Monica Civic aud:
WRITERS GUILD DECIDES ON GOLDEN GLOBES AND ACADEMY AWARDS SHOW WAIVERS
LOS ANGELES - The Writers Guild has notified the Hollywood Foreign [...]

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The following no-frills statement was issued by both the WGA and DGA this afternoon:
GUILDS WILL MEET TO DISCUSS NEW MEDIA
LOS ANGELES - The Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America will meet shortly to discuss new media, including what the DGA has developed from its research and studies.
Neither the WGA nor the [...]

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From the current print edition of BTL:
DGA Enters Strike Fray
By Jack Egan
The question now hovering over Hollywood is whether the decision by the Directors Guild of America to schedule its own contract negotiations with the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers can also break the logjam in talks between the Writers Guild [...]

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The writers strike rhetoric has escalated to a different level.
What began as a labor dispute over wages and residuals has morphed into a battle of egos and a fight over the nature of the creative contribution to entertainment content. As Mark Williams points out in his Union Roundup column in the December 17 issue [...]

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