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Tim Kazurinsky riffs on Writers Strike on WGN
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Remember Sweetchuck from Police Academy? Well the man who played him, Tim Kazurinsky is actually a writer, too (SNL, numerous movies & TV) and has a very unique take on how the "greedy" writers are out to get the "poor" producers in the current WGA Strike.
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IATSE and, in fact, ALL industry unions ARE PAID residuals. Those payments make up 55% of the funding to their pension and health care plans.
Also, the the IATSE has a deal with the AMPTP that if any other union gets internet residuals, the AMPTP has to give the IATSE the same deal.
I'm sorry you're out of work, but believe me, this is your fight too. The WGA just happens to be the first ones into the line of fire.
If the strikers don't like it, send the police in and beat these greedy assholes to a bloody pulp.
Most Unions have outlived their usefulness, they're no longer about protecting the health/welfare of workers, now their all about greed.
Yes, if they are represented by one of the many Unions in the entertainment industry they receive either directly, or indirectly (health plan/retirement plan funding) from the TV reruns, and the DVD sales.
When the WGA strike succeeds in getting a piece of internet and new media profits, then everyone will benefit.
Does a grip operator or camera operator receive royalties each time the scene they helped produced is shown ?
IE : Does the person who filmed the famous scenes in Casablanca or Gone with the wind receive any extra money when ever the film is sold, or royalties when ever the scene is used ?
A very small % of WGA members make the kind of $ one would call "very good". Stats. show that at any time only 20% of WGA members are actually making $ from writing, and an even smaller % of that group have a steady job (if you can call writing on a show steady-all shows end within a # of yrs). The fight for residuals is about the protection for the time when a writer is busting ass to find a job or the next job.
They are promoting 2 FALSE ideas that they're hoping people will buy into:
All writers are rich
The WGA is responsible for below the line crew being out of work.
Second, to be blunt and based on my first point-which is more difficult and therefore more valued? Writing Casablanca or building the set?
Yes, in the form of pension, health & welfare. For now.
I don't know. Depends on if they're in a union or not.
In any case, if the writers lose this strike, all three of those Yeses will turn into Noes when the IATSE contract is up for renewal in a couple of years.
However, those residuals only go back so far. Someone who worked on Casablanca doesn't get residuals. Until the 1960s, there was no such thing as residuals. For anyone.
So what changed in the 1960s, which ended up getting residuals for EVERY unionized worker on a film?
The WGA WENT ON STRIKE. And won.
You see, this is the type of response that makes a lot more sense then these ridiculous artistic movies that no one is writing but which appear all over youtube.
Its interesting how many people give negative responses to questions (like mine) which are actually allow the writers to prove their point !!
lol, the vid is cool though
I posted an old clip of Phil Donahue meeting Bozo the Clown and received a copyright violation notice. Was this intentional? Do you feel that the old Bozo clip from decades ago might hurt viewership? Is the content available for licensing?
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Colortinis