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The Office is closed

November 7, 2007 Strike, Television, Video

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The Monkey is alive

November 7, 2007 Strike

I had a hunch the strike would put Josh Friedman back at the keyboard. AMPTP: Wow, Ms. Prostitute. That was some great sex we just had. PROSTITUTE: Thanks, AMPTP John. That’ll be three hundred dollars. AMPTP: You’re kidding. I’m not paying you. PROSTITUTE: What? AMPTP: I paid you three hundred dollars for sex last week. […]

Strike, Day Two

November 6, 2007 Strike

Better than the first. Easier, certainly, since there wasn’t the panic of the unknown. I stayed at Paramount, half the time at the main gate, half the time at the smaller Gower gate. It was a very chanty day, but I was in the mood. One of the more popular ones from Gower gate: I […]

On the line

November 6, 2007 Strike

Yesterday, I took my first tour of duty as a picketeer, joining a crew of fellow writers (and allied SAG members) at the front gates of Paramount. Later in the afternoon, I was redeployed at Sunset Gower Studios, where they shoot Heroes. ((The journey from Paramount to Sunset Gower was about a 20 minute walk […]

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