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You're probably still crying after Kristen Wiig debunked any rumors of a Bridesmaids sequel (and Chris O'Dowd announced on Twitter that he's marrying someone who is not you), but wipe those eyes because it's not all bad! Writers Guild nominations have been announced and among them are none other that Wiig and co-scribe Annie Mumolo. Bridesmaids has been nominated for Best Original Screenplay. More »
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Overall employment and earnings in Hollywood took a hit along with the general economy, but not everyone felt the sting equally. The latest Writers' Guild report indicates that in many instances, women and minority TV and film writers lost ground in comparison to white males. More »
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"SEX ON STRIKE: New York writers confess to passion on the picket lines," promises the cover of Page Six Magazine. Oh goody, I thought, a little vicarious action! Inside, the pull quote promised, "I'm outnumbered by guys on the picket line — most of them straight — at a ratio of 20 to 1. Where else in New York do you get that?" And who better to author such a piece thanAnka, the woman "often credited as the writer who defined the modern-day sex column" as Wikipedia puts it. (And such a refreshing angle to the old "dreariness of life on strike story" wherein writers inevitably say depressing things like, "For writers, the difference between being retired and unretired is so thin you'd never know the difference") (The only thing more depressing than this job is the thought of being left to read shit on the internet all day for sheer lack of will to do anything else.) Anyway, onto the juicy bits. Since we all feel like we're getting screwed, we might as well be getting laid, the story tantalizes. And luckily for us, Anka finds a cute screenwriter named Bob. "Bob was funny, Bob was sweet, and best of all Bob was heterosexual and he wanted to have sex with me." Gimme more! More »
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We all know the writers strike is certainly affecting, well, the writers. And the studios. And us, since there's little to watch now, save The Sarah Connor Chronicles. But wouldn't you know? Those in the always narcissistic fashion industry is worried about how the strike impacts them. Says designer Phillip Lim on the absence of red-carpet creations: "It's about how it trickles down to retailers, how it trickles down to restaurants, how it trickles down to the community. They've got to work it out and get on with it. It's almost selfish to just keep on with the struggle." Uh, what does this have to do with restaurants? And seriously, who is Lim to call the writers "selfish"? Anyway, fashion writer Hadley Freeman is feeling pissy about the strike and fashion too, but for entirely different reasons. More »
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Last night's Golden Globe Awards garnered some minor surprises (Julie Christie for best actress, drama; Julian Schnabel for director); some major snoozes (the exceedingly-painful televised press conference made us want to do all sort of tortuous things to Billy Bush, especially when he called Cate Blanchett not such a great actress); and some boring fashion (see above). To amuse ourselves (and, as promised on Friday), we took the female Globes winners and outfitted them in the fashions we think they should have worn, had the show gone on as usual. The winners and their pretend awards-wear, after the jump. More »
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Many of you may be aware that a Writers Guild of America strike is basically a forgone conclusion at this point, but you might not realize how the lack of working screenwriters might affect the average couch potato like yourself. To recap: the Writers Guild of America (WGA), which includes writers in the motion picture, broadcast, cable, and new media industries, had a contract which expired yesterday, because they're still haggling ove digital rights, DVD profits, and something darling Nikki Finke calls "jurisdictional issues." Not every writer in Hollywood is union, of course; especially those writers who don't actually write because their shows are — wink, wink — "unscripted." But the bottom line is that if a strike lasts a long enough time, scripted series will go the way of the dodo for the 2007-2008 TV season and networks, says Finke, will "rely on programming more cheap reality-TV and game shows," which is probably what the world needs now anyway. So where does this leave you? More »
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