Tag: WGA
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IN DEFENSE OF ELLEN: One Writer’s Experience
[My sweet friend and multi-Emmy award winner Liz Feldman asked if I would post her side of the quite heated Ellen debate. I love Liz and will do all I can for her. Here’s her story. — pamie] First, let me say that I wish that Ellen hadn’t crossed the picket lines. I wish that…
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“Oh, Dear” alert.
I will be on Nick Digilio’s show on WGN Radio of Chicago (along with the talented Jeffrey Stepakoff and the incredible Sara Hess of House and Deadwood) Saturday, November 10th, at 9pm Central (7pm Pacific), to talk about the WGA strike. Oh, I’m so frightened about how live it all is. Live radio? Yikes! You…
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Day Four. Updates.
Let me see if I can paint the past week for you really quickly. OCTOBER 29. Monday. We get to work knowing it’ll probably be our last week of work. We are frantically writing what will be our final script. Pencils down is coming soon. We are hoping against hope that a strike will be…
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Subject: Go, Norma Rae, Go!
[readermail] Dear pamie, So I’m writing you for a few reasons, the first of which are fangirly–I’ve been a longtime reader of your site (and a Gilmore Girls fan, for which your recaps are required reading), I’ve read both your novels and pressed them on anyone who would take them, and I think you, as…
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Pamie Rae (or, writing a post for UnitedHollywood.com)
[United Hollywood asked me to reprint this post here so they can link to it, instead of taking up their entire front page with all my blah-blah-blah. It’s very hard to do “Pencils Down.” I end up writing elsewhere. Like here.] I’m a writer. I’m a strike captain. I’m a gate coordinator for CBS Radford.…
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Oh, dear.
I don’t understand why I let anyone interview me with a camera. Go here to see me on the picket line, directing traffic while trying to explain the importance of representation for writers and compensation in new media. Also on that page, giving interview much better than I do, is my showrunner, the fantastic Donald…
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The Office Is Closed.
Day Three on the line. The sun comes out and hits us pretty hard halfway through the shift, so I followed the lead of another strike captain who brought Trivial Pursuit cards to the line to pass out to circling picketers. I brought a sleeve of Pop Culture edition and shouted, “Without you, this stack…
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Why I’m on STRIKE.
I’m striking for fair compensation and representation, because every writer is a writer, no matter where he or she is writing. From TV to film to non-jurisdictional programming (Reality, Basic Cable, Animation, Webisodes, Mobisodes, etc.), if you are writing content that is watched on a screen, then you deserve compensation, health care and pension. This…
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i walk the line.
I just wanted to thank those of you who have written to express your support of me and my fellow writers currently on strike. I will be writing about the past week, which has had an incredible amount of ups and downs, but once I tell you everything that’s happened you’ll forgive me for not…