Tomorrow at Universal

Change of venue: I’ll be joining John Gatins’ crew at Universal tomorrow from 9 - 1. Readers always welcome.

November 14, 2007 @ 4:29 pm |
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One Response to “Tomorrow at Universal”

  1. TheWolfe
    November 14th, 2007 at 11:05 pm

    Hey John, I’m writing to you from far away Mumbai, India, just to show my support. I’m a screenwriter who’s just starting out and am appalled by the lack of writer’s rights in my industry. Our Writers Union consists of a ramshackle office in a forgotten building somewhere and has neither the power nor the desire to protect writers. So it’s heartening to see how you guys are sticking together and making it count. You will not believe the kind of conditions writers work under here - residuals are unheard of, most writers get paid only a small percentage of their fee, and that too months and agonizing months later, simply because there is no Guild to back them and make the producers quake in their boots. When starting out in television most writers get paid only slightly more than the light boys on set! So here’s to the WGA and to writers all over the world. Hope you get what is rightfully yours…Wish I had the means to join you at the picket lines, but my thoughts are with you.

 

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