NEW YORK -- With the Golden Globes just 10 days away, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. said Wednesday it had entered into talks with the WGA for an interim strike-waiver agreement.
But the guilds sounded a pessimistic, even surprised, note about the possibility, and late Wednesday the chances for an 11th-hour reprieve seemed like a serious long shot.
HFPA president Jorge Camara issued a letter stating that reps for the group "began discussions" last Saturday for an interim agreement that would allow the Globes, which are produced by Dick Clark Prods., to go forward with writers and without a picket line.
The writers guilds, though, seemed taken aback by the announcement. Asked on the picket line outside The Late Show with Conan O'Brien about the HFPA missive, WGA East president Michael Winship seemed almost surprised about the contents of the letter. "There have been some informal conversations but really nothing more than that," he told The Hollywood Reporter.
The WGA West followed soon after with a statement that also sought to put distance between itself and the HFPA letter. "Dick Clark Productions is a struck company. As previously announced, the Writers Guild will be picketing the Golden Globe Awards," it said.
SAG followed with a similar statement, with president Alan Rosenberg saying that it had scheduled a meeting with members who are Globe nominees.
Sources said that after overtures from Dick Clark Prods. didn't gain traction -- resulting in the WGA saying it would not grant a waiver -- HFPA attorney George Braunstein stepped in to kickstart the talks.
But the guilds sounded a pessimistic, even surprised, note about the possibility, and late Wednesday the chances for an 11th-hour reprieve seemed like a serious long shot.
HFPA president Jorge Camara issued a letter stating that reps for the group "began discussions" last Saturday for an interim agreement that would allow the Globes, which are produced by Dick Clark Prods., to go forward with writers and without a picket line.
The writers guilds, though, seemed taken aback by the announcement. Asked on the picket line outside The Late Show with Conan O'Brien about the HFPA missive, WGA East president Michael Winship seemed almost surprised about the contents of the letter. "There have been some informal conversations but really nothing more than that," he told The Hollywood Reporter.
The WGA West followed soon after with a statement that also sought to put distance between itself and the HFPA letter. "Dick Clark Productions is a struck company. As previously announced, the Writers Guild will be picketing the Golden Globe Awards," it said.
SAG followed with a similar statement, with president Alan Rosenberg saying that it had scheduled a meeting with members who are Globe nominees.
Sources said that after overtures from Dick Clark Prods. didn't gain traction -- resulting in the WGA saying it would not grant a waiver -- HFPA attorney George Braunstein stepped in to kickstart the talks.
A Marilyn Monroe exhibition onboard the Queen Mary cruise ship, which is anchored in Long Beach, California, is being exposed as an alleged fake. Two Monroe experts, who checked out the memorabilia exhibition, have joined forces to sue the Queen Mary after insisting items on show, including a lipstick holder and a red dress, never belonged to the late movie icon. In a lawsuit filed on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Monroe biographer Ernest Cunningham and fan Emily Sadjady insist Queen Mary bosses and exhibit organizers should refund admission fees to all visitors since last November, when the show opened. Queen Mary bosses and memorabilia collector Robert W Otto, who owns the items on display, are refusing to comment about the lawsuit, but Otto has previously insisted all the items are authentic. The plaintiffs' attorney, George Braunstein, says, "The Queen Mary should have done a little more homework." The exhibit was forced to move to the Queen Mary after the Hollywood Museum cancelled a scheduled show over concerns some of the items weren't authentic.
- 6/1/2006
- WENN
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