Here’s the announcement currently on the homepage for IATSE Local 44:
Jennings Resigns, Pawluc Sworn In
Due to circumstances both professional and personal, on Friday September 19, 2008 Secretary Treasurer Elliot Jennings submitted his resignation. On Wednesday September 24, 2008 Local 44’s Executive Board met in a called Special Meeting and voted to accept Mr. Jennings resignation.
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You thought there was only one critical election this fall? True, the one in November may determine whether you eventually wind up on the streets and/or in a “detention facility,” but here in Hollywood we just had the SAG board elections, a kind of capper to Glitter Town’s own pre-financial collapse “year of the strike.” [...]

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John Adams and Mad Men lead winners at
Saturday’s Creative Emmy Awards
By Jack Egan
With awards in eight categories, John Adams, the HBO biographical miniseries about the second president of the United States, was the big winner at the Creative Emmy Awards. Mad Men, AMC’s retro-hit about the 1950’s advertising world, was second [...]

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The languors of summer are behind us — and still no settlement in the “SAG Slowdown” of ‘08, which, as readers of this space know all too well, has the unfortunate timing of following the actual “Writer’s Strike” of ‘07-’08.
kind of like the serial hurricanes in the gulf.
Meanwhile, this piece just ran at C21 Media, [...]

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