It's a lucrative industry, and the union is perfectly justified in taking measures to get their share-- just like pro players. But there's no need to start playing like this is Harlan County, USA. Come on.
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Yes and yes and yes. I agree with all of you. I especially think that it's ridiculous to imply that all writers are "rolling in dough" given the fact that the vast majority are very much not.
One of the men I work with at school is really having a tough time with this whole issue. Apparently his father was one of the founding members of WGA, and my coworker has been writing WGA begging them not to give in since he watched his dad fight and starve to get the initial contracts.
Something about a villain having a weather machine
Oh my!
It was a Cassidine I'm sure.
I just remember the terrible General Hospital storylines during that time. Oh how they sucked. Something about a villain having a weather machine and Luke & Laura on a yacht?
So were those written by scabs?
It was a Cassidine I'm sure.
it was! Stavros Cassadine. they actually brought him back not too long ago too. he had been "frozen" since the weather machine accident. Helena had blamed Luke and Laura for her son's death and all that time he was just frozen. Walt Disney style.
holy shit! I stopped watching GH in college and started in with the CBS soaps. I never went back.
i've been watching GH off and on pretty much my whole life. my BFF and i really got into it during the Karen/Jagger/Brenda triangle and then were thoroughly entrenched with the Stone/Robin storyline.
200k a year in LA is rolling in dough.
Yeah, I was gonna say, it ain't poor. Just because cost of living is sky high in LA doesn't mean salaries are high enough to match.
my BFF and i really got into it during the Karen/Jagger/Brenda triangle and then were thoroughly entrenched with the Stone/Robin storyline.
I loved that one! And then Brenda and Sonny! (GH always had the cutest gangsters-see Duke) And then Brenda ended up on 90210! Er, not as "Brenda" though; as Donnas ice skater cousin.