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November 30, 2007
Due to the recent writer’s strike, the popular mockumentary TV series, "The Office," is now being produced as an actual documentary of a real office. "An Office" is just like the real show, only far more boring. This parody was created by my good friend, and Upright Citizens Brigade... [continue]
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Photo by movie lover found in the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr. Feel free to join and add some of your photos of our city.... [continue]
November 29, 2007
Earlier today, GOD took the form of a crazy vagrant and helped us picket outside the Disney/ABC studios in Burbank. Shortly after signing in, he headed straight for the snack table, and with his giant Godly hand, slammed a fistful of Red Vines into his mouth. It looked as... [continue]
November 28, 2007
What do we want? Nothing! When do we want it? I trust the studios to decide that!... [continue]
a writer's perspective After giving the 5AM shift a shot yesterday, I decide to actually get some sleep and “work” the 8-11 shift today. I feel rejuvenated and energized when I show up to relieve the exhausted morning crew. Not a lot happens today. People seem in extra-good spirits,... [continue]
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November 27, 2007
You wont see this on MTV, but you can see it here.... [continue]
a writer's perspective I’m not sure why, but there is such a difference between 5am and 6am. When I show up to picket at 6, it feels like it’s early in the morning. Today, when I pull up at Warner Brothers just before 5, it feels like it’s the... [continue]
In a bid to save late night television programming as we knew it, the Carson Daly show will jump the gun on production in the coming days; WGA strike settlement or no, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The late night talk shows have taken a big hit since the... [continue]
November 26, 2007
a writer's perspective I imagined that I would begin Week 4 of the strike full of energy, completely rested and rejuvenated after nearly a week of Thanksgiving festivities. The reality was quite the opposite. I am tired! The WGA has officially shortened our shifts to 3 hour blocks, Monday... [continue]
November 25, 2007
From the Colbert Report writers. 'nuff said.... [continue]
November 24, 2007
Dear WGA: Being Thanksgiving weekend and all, I have spent a lot of time the last few days thinking about what I am thankful for. I am very thankful that I have been able to make a living as a writer. I am thankful that every day I am... [continue]
November 21, 2007
The ever talented and lovely Alicia Keys performed just before the massive 4000+ strong march down Hollywood Blvd. Keys, with the #1 album in the country As I Am, said "As a SAG member and a writer, she was there to support the cause." After the mini-concert of two... [continue]
November 20, 2007
For some reason we thought that this video got eaten by our technology, but look, there's Alicia Keys belting out "No One", her second and final song from the Writers Guild march and rally and mini-concert in Hollywood today. We also have video of her other song too. Do... [continue]
At 1:15pm today on Hollywood Blvd. it was hot. At 1:20pm when Alicia Keys got on the small stage on the back of a truck and performed "Go Ahead", one of the best new tracks from her latest cd As I Am, it got much hotter. We had to... [continue]
LA Scumbag just busted with a nice photo essay of Alicia Keys, later LAist photo editor Joey Maloney will give you some more pics, and if we're lucky perhaps LAist's own Heath Biter - a WGA member - will write about what the vibe was like at this huge... [continue]
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November 20, 2007
At the NBC rally last Friday, I had the pleasure of meeting Asterios Kokkinos. Asterios has been working as a researcher (kind of like a writer’s assistant) on MAD TV for the last 4 years. I hear a lot of great strike-related stories on the line, but I felt... [continue]
Over 10,000 people are scheduled to march today along Hollywood Blvd., and Grammy-award winning singer Alicia Keys will sing in support of the WGA strike which is now into its third week. Beginning at the intersection of Hollywood Blvd. at Ivar Ave. at 1pm, members of the Service Employees... [continue]
November 19, 2007
a writer's perspective On the picket lines, there’s a phenomenon I like to call Gate Pride. Most of the writers at this point have been wedged firmly into a niche, and few stray from their perennial patterns. We tend to work the same gates and the same shifts every... [continue]
The picket lines are going to get a little more crowded as the Writers Guild of America today announced that the news writers and graphic artists, who have been working for more than two years without a contract, last week authorized a strike against CBS. Sadly the nation has been... [continue]
It's interesting how creative people just can't stop being creative. You'd think that during a strike some people would just take it easy, catch up on whatever they've saved on their Tivo, or start that new workout routine they promised they'd start 11 months ago. But instead YouTube is... [continue]
November 18, 2007
a writer's perspective As the strike heads into week three, writers are excited about Friday's late announcement that negotiations are going to resume on November 26. (Thank you Variety for the completely unslanted breaking news headline "Writers Agree To Talk".) Yesterday, LAist covered John Edwards appearance at a writers... [continue]
November 17, 2007
John Edwards is everywhere in LA this weekend. Today, at the Presidential Forum on Global Warming and yesterday, images are pouring in all over these internets of Edwards in Burbank at the WGA Strikes. Best photo caption goes to Variety's Strike Blog, Scribe Vibe, for this picture of Edwards screaming... [continue]
November 15, 2007
a writer’s perspective I have a love/hate relationship with the “early shift”. I am not a morning person. Looking for news about the strike on the internet this morning, I am confronted with the genius anti-writer argument "Should a plumber get paid every time a toilet flushes?" People please... [continue]
November 14, 2007
a writer's perspective “How’s morale?” “How’s today going?” “What’s the mood like?” “When will the strike end?” I get these questions all the time. Today they come from well-wishers delivering donuts, some amateur reporters, some real reporters, and from two members of the Socialist party who have turned up... [continue]
KT Tunstall was supposed to play Leno and Carson Daly's shows this week while she was in town. But since the strike happened she figured "how about playing in front of NBC?" When a better location down the street in front of the Disney gates was suggested she took... [continue]
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November 14, 2007
*UPDATE 2:30 p.m.: The concert will now take place at 2:45 p.m. and at 2300 Alameda, not 3300 Alameda. Here's a map. Yesterday we interviewed Scottish sensation KT Tunstall before she played to a sold-out Avalon, and we featured her in Tonight in Rock. Today we are receiving word... [continue]
November 13, 2007
I got the most passionate finger today. From such an angry looking lady. This wasn’t some timid flip. We’re talkin’ full-on digit thrust. She put her whole wrist into it. She was scowling with such gusto, I thought she might bite through the bottom of her scrunched-up sourpuss lips.... [continue]
November 12, 2007
As the writers strike enters it's second week, a lot of attention continues to be paid to the issue of "new media". AKA The Internet. For negotiating purposes, the AMPTP insists that it doesn't know if they make money on the internet. They've also been trying to push the... [continue]
I guess technically, it’s day 8 of the strike. My instinct was to write “Day 6”. Even trying to write every day for LAist, I know I’m gonna lose track. As we enter week two, I wonder how morale will be. Will the cars stop honking? Will the thumbs... [continue]
November 10, 2007
Day 5 of the Writer's Strike was by far the most powerful. After being spread at various lots and productions throughout Los Angeles, all 3000+ members united in front of Fox Studios for a rally and march greater than any seen in the week old strike. They brought some... [continue]
First, let me take a chant straight from the picket-line and just say, EVVAA-LONGORIA, WE WRITE THE STORYIA. Second, here is Greg's official statement on the writers strike (exclusive): "Please support the Writers Strike. I don't want to drive past studios every day that look like they are holding... [continue]
November 9, 2007
While some of the most creative people in Hollywood were striking for the right to get a cut of residuals from Internet sales of the shows they create, some of the biggest local losers have decided to try to take advantage of the situation. Defamer has a nice little... [continue]
Sure, two members of Rage Against the Machine helped the writers rage, but this photo essay will focus more on the thousands of people who showed up to march, and the churros. Yes, churros of support were rolled into the Nakatomi Plaza for anyone who needed some churro love.... [continue]
All your favorite writers of all your favorite shows gathered this morning around brunch at Fox Plaza to celebrate the first week of their strike. Some of the fellas from Rage Against the Machine showed up and played, Jesse Jackson pressed the flesh, and Tom Arnold heard there would... [continue]
November 8, 2007
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November 8, 2007
Today went fast. I reported to Warner Brothers Gate 2 for the “late shift”. Even though I had heard that all of the strikers were going to mobilize at Gate 2, there are writers and supporters stationed at all the gates around the studio. Unlike Gate 7, Gate 2... [continue]