Which Way, L.A.?
The Writers' Contract Expired this Morning: What's Next?
The 1988 Writers Guild against the Motion Picture and TV producers threw thousands of people out of work for more than 5 months. It cost some $500 million dollars and ended with neither side a clear victor. This time, it’s all about iPods, DVD’s and the Internet. On Reporter’s Notebook, British novelist Will Self goes on a walking tour of Los Angeles to illustrate PsychoGeography.
By Warren Olney • • 30m ListenThe 1988 Writers Guild against the Motion Picture and TV producers threw thousands of people out of work for more than 5 months. It cost some $500 million dollars and ended with neither side a clear victor. This time, it’s all about iPods, DVD’s and the Internet. On Reporter’s Notebook, British novelist Will Self goes on a walking tour of Los Angeles to illustrate PsychoGeography.
Photo: Billboards advertising movie and television shows outside the main gate of the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles, CA.
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2 storiesTV and Film Writers Threaten to Strike
If there’s a writers’ strike, this is the consensus on what would happen. Leno , Letterman , Stewart and all the other late-night talk shows would go into reruns immediately. By late November, the soap operas would run out of new episodes and be replaced by news programs. By mid-January, prime time would be filled with reality shows, game…
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Will Self is a British novelist, whose books include “ The Sweet Smell of Psychosis ” and, recently, “ The Book of Dave ” about a London cab driver. In Britain’s Independent newspaper he collaborates with the artist Ralph Steadman on a column called, “ PsychoGeography .” How he and Steadman have produced a book by the same name. I’ll…
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