Press Play with Madeleine Brand
How the 1960 SAG-WGA strike set the stage for today’s walkouts
The only other time that both Hollywood actors and writers striked simultaneously was 1960. The industry was relatively new, and TV was the big disruptor.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe only other time that both Hollywood actors and writers striked simultaneously was 1960. The industry was relatively new, and TV was the big disruptor.
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Angie Perrin
Producer, Press Play
Michell Eloy
Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play
Cynthia Littleton
co-editor-in-chief of Variety, author of “TV on Strike: Why Hollywood Went to War Over the Internet”
Thomas Doherty
professor of American studies at Brandeis University
The full episode
3 of 4‘Latingrass’: Hear new folk sound from the band Larry and Joe- 0:00Israel gets torn apart by new law limiting judicial power
- 9:23What a civil rights charge against Donald Trump could mean
- 16:56How the 1960 SAG-WGA strike set the stage for today’s walkoutsYou’re reading this
- 31:32How Larry met Joe: Folk duo bridges cultures to make 'Latingrass'