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My wife Sam and I are going to start a group whereby some of the artists we know get together to perform short "things". We know various writers, actors, filmmakers and musicians and we think it is time to create for ourselves. Waiting for the phone to ring for acting jobs here in Seattle is a lonely task indeed. I will keep you posted as we go into to this....

Otherwise the short film I was part of last month has a website: http://www.creativerune.com/Seconds/

Check it out and let me know what you think.

My agent James Jones was in town from LA last week and we met to discuss my career. He is a good agent and quite savvy to what we need to do to get me going faster and wider. The biggest thing of course is moving down to LA. With the writers strike in full bloom though the time to move can wait....


The Latest Word
(12/28/07)
"Big media walked away from the table and refuses to negotiate. The media conglomerates know that the core issue in these negotiations is new media. Their current proposals would cause writers even more economic harm in the future than they claim this strike has caused. To sidestep this fact, they erroneously claim we are focused on other issues. The conglomerates are responsible for creating the economic havoc. They should put their energies into making a fair deal with writers rather than issuing misleading statements.” - The WGAW Web site

Issues in the strike
Every three years, the Writers Guilds negotiate a new basic contract with the AMPTP by which its members are employed. This contract is called the Minimum Basic Agreement (MBA), which is the entertainment industry's equivalent to a sports league's Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).[6] In the 2007 negotiations over the MBA an impasse was reached, and the WGA membership voted to give its board authorization to call a strike, which it did on Friday, November 2, with the strike beginning the subsequent Monday, November 5, 2007.
Among the many proposals from both sides regarding the new contract, there are several key issues of contention including DVD residuals; union jurisdiction over animation and reality program writers; and, perhaps most importantly, compensation for "new media"-- content written for (and/or distributed through) emerging digital technology such as the Internet. There is also discussion of the desire for higher pay. - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia