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...A new contract agreement was reached on Sunday between studios and the Directors Guild of America, which some hope could form the basis of a deal with the actors and writers....
...Streaming and its economics are also looming large in the twin strikes starring Hollywood’s Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists....
...His name, after the suave American actor Melvyn Douglas, was “like calling somebody Tyrannosaurus rex”....
...Born in Adelaide, Australia, Snook wasn’t certain in the early stages of the process that she had nailed Shiv’s American accent so she kept her counsel and played “enigmatic”: it ended up being a genius...
...An American CEO saying that the customer is always right does not sound controversial, but this consumer focus is at the heart of what worries some actors, directors and agents in Hollywood....
...Menzies’ love of theatre was nurtured by his mother, a teacher who divorced his father, a BBC radio producer and writer, and moved Menzies, aged six, and his brother from London to Kent....
...part of Lloyds on the intelligence side, and Stevens was one of the leading counsels at The Hartford....
...“Vacuum tubes are so much fun,” he says, explaining how the tube, one of the basic components of radio and television, works....
...From the first printed books to newspapers, radio, film, television and the internet, media have always been fuelled by technology....
...Although he has his Beverly Hills home, and his share in the format of America’s Got Talent, he is no longer on screen....
...the greatest American character actors of his generation....
...The piece, A Man and Woman Make Love (2012), is a five-screen installation made in the form of a television play with a live studio audience....
...The Black Eyed Peas frontman, born William Adams Jr, is a 37-year-old technology-obsessed rapper, producer, actor, DJ and singer who has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide and won a hatful of Grammy...
...It is unsurprising once you meet her that Kudrow, 47, whose decade in Friends was rewarded by an Emmy and two Screen Actors Guild awards, has resurfaced in an artist-led company where the aim is creative...
...The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists described the end of the shows as “a devastating loss”, noting that soaps were “once a prolific source of employment” for actors....
...The Screen Actors Guild and the smaller American Federation of Television and Radio Artists fell out after a 27-year partnership when one discovered that the other had gone behind its back to lure away the...
...The studios have agreed a new contract with the 70,000 members of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which is the second-largest actors’ union....
...The 120,000-member Screen Actors Guild was dealt a significant blow when the American Federation of Television and Radio Actors voted to accept a new offer from the studios....
...However, the union has been engaged in a battle on another front, having waged a costly campaign against the American Federation of Television and Radio Actors in an attempt to convince its members to vote...
...SAG is also at loggerheads with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, a rival acting union, which has accepted a contract offer from the studios....
...One of the greatest Hollywood union leaders was Ronald Reagan, who as president of the Screen Actors Guild in 1960 won the right of actors to royalties (so-called “residuals”) when their films were shown...
...pub to open; out-of-work actors; titled diplomats; jobbing plumbers; microskirted prostitutes in fishnet stockings; Australian students; Italian waiters; and the most famous American poet of his age....
...of actors from an ITV drama serial....
...U nlike writers, composers, actors and indeed their American counterparts, British directors typically get no residual payments on their work....
...He beamed the inaugural gala to massive television screens erected on the Lincoln Center plaza out front and at distant Times Square....
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