About Miami Supports the WGA Strike
Monday, December 31st, 2007
Most, if not all of the TV Blogs have showed their support for the WGA strike. It is important for ALL professional writers to support the WGA as writers should get paid for their work and that is why a blog about Miami and South Beach endorses the WGA strike. Many TV shows are filmed and set in or around Miami and our local economy depends heavily on entertainment dollars. The studios need to pay the writers fairly and put an end to this strike.
In addition to blogs, many fans are showing support for their favorite TV show writers by being very creative. For example:
Some of the fans at Fans4Writers.com have come up with another great idea for supporting the writers … they have hired skywriters to fly over the Rose Bowl parade. There will be several planes bearing different messages, and hopefully at least one will be picked up by the cameras of the many television networks that cover the parade and broadcast it all over the world. As Ron Moore said on his blog, it is a very creative idea and another impressive effort from these amazing fans.
It’s also an expensive idea, perhaps not in the grand scheme of entertainment but certainly for a few individuals who are hoping to make a difference with a self-funded initiative. That is why there is an auction going on over at Fans4Writers, and from now until January 7th you can make a donation to the fund or bid on some great Battlestar Galactica items.
Among the autographed scripts is one for “Maelstrom,” the episode where Starbuck “dies,” which is signed by signed by writers Bradley Thompson and David Weddle as well as director Michael Nankin. These three fellows also autographed scripts from the controversial episode “Scar,” and the visually stunning episode “Flight of the Phoenix.” There are also several Ron Moore autographed scripts, including some of the best episodes of the series (in my opinion) as well as a group shot of the cast of Firefly/Serenity and an autographed poster of James Marsters (best known as Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer). So head over there and do some shopping … it is never too early to start gathering gifts for the 2008 holiday season!
If you don’t have the funds to donate to the skywriting event, GalacticaSitRep reports there is a parallel effort going on to allow fans to send personal messages of support to the Battlestar Galactica writers on the picket lines. The address to write to is “battlestar[dot]fan[dot]support[dot]wall[at-symbol]gmail[dot]com” and be sure to read the brief but very reasonable guidelines that are posted on the fan forums before you send your message. According to the posts, all of the messages will eventually go in a three ring binder which will hopefully end up nestled next to the scrapbook that “Mrs. Ron” is creating of memories from the strike.
For a primer on the WGA strike, start here.
his delivery was so full of frothing, barely articulate bile and rage that it could sometimes obscure the sharpness of his social and political observations. Black graduated from the Yale Drama School and worked for a government anti-poverty program under President Nixon before becoming the playwright in residence at the West Bank Café Downstairs Theatre Bar in Manhattan. Black authored over 40 plays that were produced there and at other theaters across the country (one, The Deal, was made into a movie). Seeking to move into comedy, Black made his motion-picture debut in Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters in 1986, and went on to land a series of guest-starring roles on TV shows like Law and Order, Murphy Brown, Mad About You, Homicide, and The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (the last of which was recurring); he also appeared in several more films, including 1990’s Jacob’s Ladder. Black’s standup star began to rise with appearances on Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and he landed a big break when he signed on as a regular contributor to The Daily Show. Since then, Black has continued to tour the country as a standup comedian, and in 2000 issued his first CD, The White Album (which naturally took its art design from the Beatles’ release). 
