Hollywood writer, Robert Bassing, is threatening to sue the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences.
The potential suit was sparked by a recent policy to take away inactive members’ Academy voting rights. According to an article from “The Hollywood Reporter,” Bassing, 91, is accusing the Academy of phasing out older, white members to make room for more diversity.
Does taking away voting rights from inactive members ageist, or is it necessary to help Hollywood’s diversity problem?
Guests:
Patricia Resnick, writer and Producer whose credits include Robert Altman films, the iconic comedy “9 to 5” and the TV series Mad Men; she tweets
Darnell Hunt, director of the UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies, which puts out the annual “Hollywood Diversity Report," and chair of the Sociology Department at UCLA; he tweets from