What Some Wrote This Week...

If the studios really believe they can't share a sliver of profits with the people who create what they sell, they'll be the losers. If you don't believe in the future, you shouldn't be in show business.

Patrick Goldstein at the LA Times trying to get to the bottom of the AMPTP's reluctance to negotiate and be reasonable leaves him cold and confused....

$204,000 dollars....this number was chosen specifically because CNBC and the studios on whose behalf they're arguing want you to believe that most writers are spoiled brats whining about their six-figure incomes.

Greg Saunders at the Huffington Post neatly explains the difference between 'average' salary (of WGA members) and 'median' salary, which is far more applicable...

If the writers' strike continues, and ultimately causes the collapse of the traditional TV development, pilot, upfront and fall season continuum, it would not necessarily be a bad thing for the industry.

And MediaPost's Jack Myers theorizes and speculates about the bad, and the good, that can come from the strike...


I didn't write much at all, read a lot instead...took some meetings...did some video-conferencing...watched more sports...marked some students screenplays...wondered aloud why the Victoria Secret Runway Christmas show, even with some Spice Girl spice, looked exactly the same as last year, and the year before (find some new looks, ladies)...



Maybe tonight I'll take in a play, as in theatre, or a foreign film.

And so it goes...