Tag Archive: Alan Rosenberg

Drama And Surprise :: The Hollywood SAG Information Meeting

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 I was certainly surprised at the overwhelming majority of actors who were ‘voting no’ and let everyone know it, at the SAG meeting. The other side reacted with an action that will just blow your socks off…But, I am not telling you yet! First,  you have to know what happened prior…

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SAG Actors Ed Asner, Scott Wilson Explain About Conglomerates Owning Studios, Networks, Online Media

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Hollywood isn’t owned by Hollywood anymore. The film studios aren’t just film studios anymore. And Rupert Murdoch, who owns almost everything, doesn’t even like movies… Really.

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SAG Tentative Agreement Reached:: Actor Commercials Contract

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SAG President Alan Rosenberg Emails Actor Members about tentatively settled Commercials Contract…Here’s the email…Not an April Fools joke.

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Who Are These “Middle Class Actors” That SAG Is Representing?

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These middle-class actors, in these videos (Recognize them?)…They did the math. For you, so you don’t have to.
Maybe it’s because they are real working actors. (Recognize them?) And, they’re not obscuring what is important, with all that other stuff…gossipy-drama that most of the press puts front-and-center, when they write about SAG…

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Who Are These "Middle Class Actors" That SAG Is Representing?

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These middle-class actors, in these videos (Recognize them?)…They did the math. For you, so you don’t have to.
Maybe it’s because they are real working actors. (Recognize them?) And, they’re not obscuring what is important, with all that other stuff…gossipy-drama that most of the press puts front-and-center, when they write about SAG…

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SAG Actors Get A New Vote: But About Contract, Instead of Strike?

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Example: For an actor who has never worked, the $28 dollars that the AMPTP is offering for per-show (with no residuals for any re-play)…well, that may seem great to a young actor who has never had a paying job. Or who has spent a year, breaking their back, suffering indignities, and maybe doing “background”/extra work, so as to get their “3 jobs” so they could qualify for eligibility for a SAG card…)

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Actor Union Negotiator Not Ousted Yesterday!

It’s a hell-of-a-lot more dramatic to report all this drama, I guess…then the truth of how difficult it is to survive as an actor. What the life really is.

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SAG :: Strike Vote Amongst Actors Postponed

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The Screen Actors Guild has decided to postpone the acting strike authorization vote, amongst it’s actor member-base…Why?

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L.A.Times Blog Is Biased, Incorrect. About Actors.

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I find this article awfully condescending, demeaning, and insulting. Actors genuinely, and gravely, are concerned about their future in this business, which is tenuous. And their careers. And their families.

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My Acting Blog… An Unexpected Stage, Due To Fate…

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The problem is (as SAG believes) that soon, there won’t BE acting careers. At all. The acting profession is on the chopping block.

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Member Of Screen Actors Guild?

Actors, please be aware about our union’s struggles now. Please write SAG to lend some emotional support, and to ask that they all join together for one cause.

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Today SAG Will Announce Results of New Board Elections

The Screen Actors Guild announces its new Elected Board Members. The ones who win will reflect which side, of the two warring sides of the professional actors, will be running SAG. This is a very important side. In this post, I talk about what is at the heart of this actor war, and what are some possible consequences.

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SAG Negotiations, Video of Alan Rosenberg Stating SAG Stance

Professional actors  make up the membership of the Screen Actors Guild.  They are, in majority, behind the union and it's position, which is; don't give in to the studios and producers; don't simply accept what they offer.  They aren't willing to pay what we think is important; they aren't willing to put the additions,  and ...

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Articles: Complications and Effects of the SAG Negotiations

Here are two resources on the SAG strike, and the SAG – AFTRA conflict. These articles are from two sources: Wikipedia and TV Guide.

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