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2010 | 2001
8 items from 2010
Commentary: Stanley Kramer's 1960 masterpiece 'Inherit the Wind' still relevant
22 September 2010 5:00 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Hollywood has been home to more dreamers and schemers than any other town in the world. It's also been home to its share of geniuses. But there have been damn few visionaries. To my mind, Hollywood's greatest visionary was Stanley Kramer, the writer, director and producer whose "Inherit the Wind" celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
I was lucky enough to grow up during some of Stanley's greatest years, and when I saw "Inherit" in the theater for the first time in 1960, it changed my life. I knew then that I wanted to be a lawyer. (Two years later, when I saw "Dr. No," the first James Bond movie, I decided I wanted to be a secret agent.)
I was an impressionable kid. What I learned about the evils of racism, the threat of nuclear war and the danger of religious intolerance, I learned in theaters watching Kramer movies with »
- By David Robb
Attention, talent: Guilds may have your unclaimed residuals
4 August 2010 3:00 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Hollywood's guilds, unions and collection societies are sitting on a gold mine of unclaimed residuals and royalties. They're holding more than $150 million for tens of thousands of actors, writers, directors and musicians they're trying to locate.
I began looking into this recently when I learned that my late father had a small piece of this pie coming to him.
My dad, Larry Robb, was a bit player and longtime SAG member. He had a small role on an episode of "Kung Fu," played Mad Dog in a movie called "Star Hops" and had a couple of lines in the telefilm "Frank Nitti: The Enforcer." We went to the premiere.
My dad died broke 20 years ago; there was no will and no estate. But I recently discovered that he'd left me some money after all -- in the form of unclaimed SAG residuals.
It turns out that SAG has more than »
- By David Robb
50 years ago, a racially divided Hollywood
12 July 2010 1:00 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Fifty years ago this week, Sammy Davis Jr. was roundly booed during the opening ceremony of the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. The incident was one of the saddest moments in the entertainer's life and pointed up the deep racial divide that was threatening to rip apart the Democratic Party and the country.
It was July 11, 1960, and in two days the convention would nominate John F. Kennedy as the Democrats' presidential nominee. It had been hot and smoggy that day as 7,000 delegates began pouring into the Sports Arena downtown.
The convention was called to order promptly at 5 p.m., and after the invocation, everyone stood as the color guard presented the flag -- the first with 50 stars presented at a national political convention as Hawaii had been admitted to the Union 11 months earlier.
Then came the introduction of the Hollywood celebrities who were packed into the crowded hall as guests of the convention. »
- By David Robb
Hollywood films missing U.S. union logos
1 June 2010 1:00 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
There was a time when U.S. manufacturers were proud to display the union label on their products. There even was a song written about it during the 1970s.
"Look for the union label/It says we're able to make it in the U.S.A.!"
Today, many Hollywood films carry union logos that proudly declare a quite different message: "Look for the union label. We're able to make it in ... Canada!"
American films are littered with logos, but the only union labels you'll see in the end credits of movies produced by the Hollywood studios and major production companies are ones for unions that are wholly or partly Canadian.
If you look closely and stick around for the end credits, you'll see lots of logos for the Canadian actors union but not a single logo for SAG, America's film actors' union.
The logo for the Canadian actors union -- the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, »
- By David Robb
Commentary: Nancy Reagan Deserves SAG Nod
29 April 2010 11:04 AM, PDT | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »
SAG's annual awards show isn't until January, but the guild already is gearing up for the big event. Last week, it announced it had begun the selection process of SAG members who will select the nominees.The top honor handed out each year by SAG is its Life Achievement Award. The award has gone to some of Hollywood's top stars, like Gregory Peck, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, Audrey Hepburn, Kirk Douglas, Clint Eastwood and Iggy Wolfington.Iggy Wolfington? As an actor, Ignatius Wolfington appeared on a lot of TV shows and on Broadway, but his main claim to fame -- his true calling -- was as a humanitarian. For years, he was the much-loved West Coast representative of the Actors Fund of America, the town's oldest charitable organization.That's the thing about the SAG Life Achievement Award: It doesn't just go to great actors, it also »
Good Morning Hollywood, April 8: Heavy Lifting, No Pay
8 April 2010 7:31 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Steve Pond
In this morning’s roundup of movie news ‘n’ notes from around the web, it’s a new world in casting announcements, but P.A.s still get the shaft.
David Robb speaks up on behalf of Hollywood’s production assistants, especially the unpaid ones, whose use violates labor laws even though they’re often dubbed “interns” in an attempt to justify the lack of salary. Turns out that true interns aren’t legally allowed to do any work that would normally be performed by a paid worker. The Craigslist add offering no pay for a P.A. gig that in »
- Steve Pond
Commentary: Prod'n assistants need pay
7 April 2010 3:00 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
They are Hollywood's migrant workers, the gofers, the errand boys, the Girls Friday. They are Hollywood's production assistants, the lowest-paid workers on the set -- if paid at all -- and the only ones without a union, the only ones no union even wants to bother with. In Hollywood's caste system, they are the untouchables.
These PAs work in nearly every phase of production and postproduction, and sometimes their employers break the law by not even paying them.
There are transportation production assistants (the Teamsters don't want them); camera PAs (the Photographers Guild doesn't want them); costume PAs (the Costumers Local doesn't want them); office PAs (the Office Workers Local doesn't want them); and art department PAs (the Art Directors union doesn't want them, either).
Production assistants have five things in common: They're young, they're multitaskers, they're trying to break into show business, they wear earpieces on the set so »
- By David Robb
Commentary: SAG, AFTRA should merge
24 March 2010 5:00 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
More SAG/AFTRA news
Now that they've agreed to stop their bickering and return to the bargaining table to jointly negotiate their contracts, it's time for SAG to AFTRA to take that final step: They need to get married.
They met and had a baby in the 1950s. They called the child Television. Before that, SAG represented movie actors and AFTRA represented radio performers and recording artists (this was before the "T" -- for television -- was added to its name). But when the baby came along, their parent organization, the AFL-CIO, decided to split custody: SAG would get jurisdiction over primetime and AFTRA would get everything else: daytime soaps, late-night shows and the news. And it sort of made sense. After all, the sudsers had started on the radio, and broadcast news did, too.
Joint custody worked out Ok for a while, but there always were simmering tensions over sharing jurisdiction. »
- By David Robb
2010 | 2001
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