i dont understand the hate steming from what she wrote.

I don't hate Elizabeth Page, but I don't understand her "hardships", either.

could her and her family lead a cheaper lifetsyle? yes. but why?

Because, 1) some of that money spent on extravagances (sp?) should have been tucked away in savings, IMO; and 2) there is a difference between living well and living wastefully; and again, IMO, spending that much on a haircut, among other expenditures she outlined in the article, is wasteful.

shes just saying this strike really f'd up her lifre and wanted it over with IMHO.

And IMO, her ordeal throughout the strike does not compare to, say, Marla Kanelos'; so, for her to solicit sympathy for her perceived struggles (and IMO, why else would she write such an article?), to me, is laughable. (Unless, of course, she was going for irony in that piece - in which case, it was lost on me.)

I'm sure EPage suffered tremendously during the strike...but I pray she knows that she could have had it much, much worse.

Edited February 19, 200817 yr by Khan

She's back.

“The strike was a huge, huge success in my view and in the view of everyone I respect,” Walter said.

Compared to Walter though, Alburger had to leave her job on “The Young and the Restless” to go on strike and therefore had more to lose.

Once the strike was lifted, Alburger was asked not to come back as a member of the writing staff for the daytime soap opera.

“It was a surprise,” Alburger said. “I’m still unclear to how they were allowed to have done that.”

Under the strike agreement, those guild members such as Alburger who had active contracts before the strike began, were supposed to be able to return to work without problems once the strike ended.

However, many daytime soap operas hired scabs and financial core WGA members to write during the strike.

Scabs are non-guild or nonunion workers, while financial core writers are people who have left the WGA to a certain extent to be able to work during the strike.

This temporary fix became a permanent solution once the picketing ended and certain financial core members of “The Young and the Restless” writing staff remained.

“The financial core members were allowed to stay. It’s very a complicated issue that has to do with a legal rights issue to say you don’t have to be part of the WGA to write for a television show,” Alburger said.

Walter spoke on the future of scabs and financial core writers who worked during the strike, saying their future in Hollywood would be limited no matter what.

“The people who went financial core (as well as) scabs, that can’t be very useful to their futures as writers,” Walter said.

“They’ll always be held in very low regard not only by writers but by management.”

However, Alburger said she remains optimistic and has been able to find new silver linings from the picketing experience.

“I definitely made a lot of friends and a lot of contacts. I did a lot of networking during the strike. It was really nice to talk to people I would never in a million years be able to get a meeting with,” she said. “When we are all out on the (picket) line, we’re all part of the guild. Nobody’s better than anyone else, and I will miss that.”

There is, however, one thing Alburger won’t miss about the strike.

“I won’t miss walking around in circles and carrying sticks,” she said.

http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2008/f...-shows-set-air/

I hate how she makes it seem like she was fired because of the strike, not because LML's writing team was a total disaster. How was this a shock? GMAFB!

Marina Alburger STARmeter:

290% since last week why?

Edited February 21, 200817 yr by Sylph

LMAO at Marina Alburger and her desperate stupidity....

Honey, you didn't get fired because of the strike, you got fired because you and your hack leader SUCKED....

I hope she never finds another job as a writer, someone need to give her a good reality check...

LMAO at Marina Alburger and her desperate stupidity....

Honey, you didn't get fired because of the strike, you got fired because you and your hack leader SUCKED....

I hope she never finds another job as a writer, someone need to give her a good reality check...

Y&RWorldTurner is love

I hope she never finds another job as a writer, someone need to give her a good reality check...

I hope that, too! I would banish her to a planet hundreds of parsecs away from the solar system...

LOL You guys are way too harsh.

Just because the leader sucked doesn't mean the rest of the team sucked.

Look at GH. The team rocks but Guza and his #2 (Korte) suck.

LOL You guys are way too harsh.

Yes, we are. I admit.

Look at GH. The team rocks but Guza and his #2 (Korte) suck.

Yes, I agree - that is the best (!) writing team in daytime. Simply the best.  The dialogue is excellent.

 

Edited February 21, 200817 yr by Sylph

LMAO at Marina Alburger and her desperate stupidity....

Honey, you didn't get fired because of the strike, you got fired because you and your hack leader SUCKED....

I hope she never finds another job as a writer, someone need to give her a good reality check...

Marina needs to shut the hell up.....

She's delusional.

I have HAD IT with that hackette Alburger. It's called showbiz honey, one minute you're writing for Y&R and the next you're selling designer jeans at Nordstrom. Have fun with that latter sweetie.

LOL You guys are way too harsh.

Just because the leader sucked doesn't mean the rest of the team sucked.

Look at GH. The team rocks but Guza and his #2 (Korte) suck.

You know Guza's team at GH rocks because the episodes are well structured with good dialogue. Everything about LML's Y&R wasn't working. The dialogue was cheesy, continuity wasn't there (even with her own stuff) and whoever was doing the breakdowns needs to be banned from writing soaps ever. It regularly felt like the editor cut a scene in the middle, then forgot to pick it up. But nope, that was their "brilliant" style. The same style Marina kept saying they were going to "save" Y&R with, post-strike.

In think case I think it's safe to assume most of the people LML brought on aren't fit for daytime. When all the exciting stuff happens during the commercials/weekend, you know you suck.

Aww....man....all this attack on Marina is making me feel bad for her. Maybe it's because she's my age, she's young and inexperienced and it's her first soap. It's like a puppy getting kicked around. She doesn't have the stature of someone like McTavish, Reilly, Guza - people who have been in the industry for years and can take the abuse.

I think I'm going to champion her, to try and balance things out. I feel for her now.

Oh Toups...no...just no. Marina 'hackette' Alburger didn't just put her foot in her mouth once like Lynsey Dufour did. No, she put it in several times, wriggled her hackette toes and then shoved them in our faces. Girlfriend DESERVES all the hate.

Remember, she couldn't wait to come back and "get the show back on track."

Guess it was better off without you, Marina dearest.....

Have fun on the unemployment line now!

Aww....man....all this attack on Marina is making me feel bad for her. Maybe it's because she's my age, she's young and inexperienced and it's her first soap. It's like a puppy getting kicked around. She doesn't have the stature of someone like McTavish, Reilly, Guza - people who have been in the industry for years and can take the abuse.

I think I'm going to champion her, to try and balance things out. I feel for her now.

She should have thought about that before she opened her mouth.