I am also racking my brains as to why ita is on Halle's side.

I'm trying to keep y'all on your toes.

I have a cousin who lost weight in her nose too. She had to go away to do it, but ...

FINE. She is that arrogant and duplicitous that she not only has the individuality shorn from her face, she dares lambaste others who do the same.

But that's boring!

How funny is it that Alan Smithee has 60 credits on imdb?

Not quite as funny as the fact that his imdb bio was written by his cousin George Spelvin.

I'm terribly disappointed by the fact that nobody has yet submitted a photo of Smithee.

I think you have to pay $$ to submit photos.

It also does not make sense to me that the guild dictate who can get credit. If that is the case, why don't they intervene on Alan Smithee films?

1. All Hollywood guilds dictate who can get credit. Michael J. Fox has the J. in his guild-registered name because there was an old guy name of Michael Fox on The Bold and the Beautiful, and the guild does not allow two concurrent members with the exact same name.

1A. the writers' guild arbitrates who gets writing credit alla time. I don't think it actually has a thing to do with money, as royalties and grants are all worked out in contracts, but the final credit, if in dispute, goes to the guild for arbitration.

2. The director's guild, like, invented Alan Smithee, didn't they? You can't just lie and say it was Any Dumb Guy who directed your movie (Tony Kaye tried it, and they wouldn't let him); if you want your name off the movie it has to be Alan Smithee. Or had to be, because they retired the name, and I don't know what they're doing now.

go unions! choose unions! I'm just reacting to RR AND Miller being dissed.

How is the DG not a union?

I agree this rule sounds arbitrary, but I''m willing to believe there's a reason for it, even if it seems to be poorly-applied in this case.

Apparently pseuds are chosen on a case by case basis now, since some people broke Alan Smithee. This is why we can't have nice aliases anymore!

So how are you supposed to know if a director had his name taken off a movie now? I mean, I didn't know that about Supernova!

2. The director's guild, like, invented Alan Smithee, didn't they? You can't just lie and say it was Any Dumb Guy who directed your movie (Tony Kaye tried it, and they wouldn't let him); if you want your name off the movie it has to be Alan Smithee. Or had to be, because they retired the name, and I don't know what they're doing now.

Using the name Martin Brest?

So how are you supposed to know if a director had his name taken off a movie now? I mean, I didn't know that about Supernova!

Huh. And since one of the rules seems to be "you can't badmouth your own movie once your name's been removed from it", how are we eevr to know? It's not like it will be listed front and center in Entertainment Weekly.

I mean, I coulda told you Supernova needed an Alan Smithee-type credit, just from watching it while working on a sewing project and seeing Peter Facinelli grow fangs; but apparently I am not formally the arbiter of taste. Not that I am not bitter about that.

go unions! choose unions! I'm just reacting to RR AND Miller being dissed.

How is the DG not a union?

DG = union. That comment was just me not wanting to come off as a union basher.

On the Metro red line, on the way to New Carrollton, there is a mural painted on the side of a train-facing building. "Unions, the folks who brought you the weekend."

I just wonder about the legislation of creativity. Then again, if there weren't unions to look after the less-than-organized creative bunch, there would be no Actor's Home, or insurance or wage negotiations, etc.

My agita started with an admittedly irrational, "Hey, leave Robert Rodriguez alone or I'll have to kick you in the shins!" outburst.