Aline Brosh McKenna joins John and Craig to discuss the progress made in the year following the Weinstein revelations. Have the systems for reporting and preventing sexual harassment improved, or are we still just dealing with hurricanes? We also follow up on The Academy’s decision to nix the Popular Film category, the IATSE agreement, missing […]
Strike
Video from Rancho Mirage Q&A
Synthian Sharp taped my Q&A in Rancho Mirage, and has it available on Vimeo.
On being here or there
I flew to Paris for a meeting this weekend. That’s absurd, of course, spending 22 hours in the air just so I could sit around a small table with two other jet-lagged people. But it was an important meeting, a kind of reality-check on a project everyone wants to see done right. As a screenwriter, […]
WGA Board election preview
A plug for staying involved in WGA politics.
Writers need actors
The survival of dayplayers benefits us all.
Uggh
On Friday afternoon, WGAw President Patric Verrone and WGAE President Michael Winship sent out an email to members that embarrassed themselves and both organizations. In it, they slammed the “puny few” who bailed on the WGA to take fi-core status, thus allowing them to write for pay during the strike. They provided a link to […]