Writer's Strike Thread

[TC]

Yeah, I'm hearing the same things.

Can we stop killing people off only to bring them back? Can that be the first step in making soaps relevant again? Please? And to me Marty has no point without Andrew. Poopy Penny be damned.

[Vee]

I loved and adored Susan Haskell's Marty, but I feel the character has been ruined by Higley and CC and do not want Susan stuck with ME.

[TC]

I loved the nasty bitchy mean Marty. Once Patrick came along she became kind of languid and all about competing with his hair.

[PJA]

Griffith may not have quit the guild...he went financial core. There is a difference. If members chose to go financial core they are still members but they can write. However, they will never be eligible for any offices inside the guild.

[bellcurve]

Christian McLaughin seems too ambitious to go financial core and cross the picket line. But then again, I still have fantasies of him creating his own daytime soap again.

Doesn't Sylph pretty much bash Lethal at any given second? If Sylph WERE an insider, I'd bet on Bradski or Pat Mulcahey. But even then, that would be saying much.

And great work, Toups. Keep outing the scabs!

Has anyone confirmed whether Dena is FiCore status?

P.S. If a writer is ousted from the guild, would they still be able to keep the royalties and things that they've earned on other shows? Or could the production company stop payment on any and all royalties, because they are no longer a part of the WGA?

[RogerNewcomb]

No one from Y&R is crossing: http://welovesoaps.blogspot.com/search/lab...er%27s%20Strike

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Thanks for posting that, Roger!

Hmm, so I guess Griffith didn't cross after all. Anyway, 18 is WAY too huge for any writing staff. Y&R needs to clean house after this strike is over. I have a feeling Sony and CBS will...

[Snark]

Not so fast...

From United Hollywood:

Mysteriously, big lies are leaked to Variety and printed -- like the "story" that two writers for The Young and the Restless have gone "fi-core" and are, in effect, abandoning the strike effort. And, of course, that isn't true. [since people are asking in the comments -- later today we'll be publishing the Y&R response today from the writers themselves, but apparently a non-writing producer who has WGA membership from previous work has chosen to go fi-core and become, effectively, a scab. Not multiple members of the writing staff of Y&R choosing to abandon the strike effort, as Variety reported. Just a producer who wasn't writing to begin with choosing to cross the picket line to the detriment of all the writers on that staff, and in this effort. Again, we'll post the full story today.]

LINK: http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/1...itics-of-j.html

[Toups]

I know, eh. 18 writers? That's insane.

1. Lynn Marie Latham

2. Scott Hamner

3. Cherie Bennett

4. Jeff Gottesfeld

5. James Stanley

6. Natalie Minardi Slater

7. Lynsey Dufour

8. Bernard Lechowick

9. Valerie Ahern

10. Christian McLaughlin

11. Brett Staneart

12. Darin Goldberg

13. Shelley Meals

14. Michael Montgomery

15. Eric Friedwald

16. Linda Schreiber

17. Sandra Weintraub

18. Vincent Latham Lechowick

Are you freakin kidding me?

[Khan]

More and more, I'm thinking Griffith is the scab. Unless, John Fisher or Tony Morina have done some writing I don't know about.

Eighteen writers? That's the most I've seen on any writing staff since AMC (and they had twenty).

[RogerNewcomb]

Thanks Snark. Why is it that WE (fans and bloggers) are trying to put out information on the strike but the soap magazines are relatively silent? This is a great chance for SOD to make their website relevant and newsworthy.

[Chris B]

The amount of writers on the staff, plus the constant newbies is why the show is so full of holes and the tone is completely different day-to-day.

[Snark]

And the sad thing is that all 18 of them put together still couldn't come up with a witty statement. "We all do our part, and we can not be parted"? Oy and vey.

The scab has to be Griffith. I mean they've done everything but print his picture with DIRTY SCAB! under it.

This is a completely ridiculous thought, but if (if? ha!) it is Griffith--could he get his old buddy Michael Malone to do some writing under the table? I guess if we see Victoria having flashbacks of being molested by Miguel, we'll know.

[stenbeck212]

They can't even decide that it's possible for a man to be raped. Why would they acknowledge a strike that could potentially kill the genre for good?

[ZaraB]

Next summer is still FAR too long. And to bring back Susan Haskell to pair with him is courting disaster.

I'm more familiar with Tomlin as producer rather than writer, but doesn't he also direct? I didn't expect him to stay a scriptwriter terribly long, but I was hoping he'd end up directing or producing again - not headwriter pro tem. ABCD has been playing hardball, saying those who strike may not have a job to return to. ANd the strike shows no sign of ending soon.