WGA: not exactly 'On the Waterfront'
The WGA, West has hired former Teamster official David Young as interim director. So if you see a bunch of burly guys with plumber’s crack hanging around WGA HQ at 3rd and Fairfax conspicuously doing nothing, there’s your explanation. It also explains actions like this, as reported in the LAT:
Network executives were finishing bagels and fruit at New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel when Susan Baronoff and her colleagues abruptly rewrote the script.
As Cable News Network anchor Anderson Cooper was moderating a panel of breakfast speakers, Baronoff and a dozen other members of the Writers Guild of America fanned out across the ballroom to hand out blue fliers criticizing the pay and benefits of scribes working in reality TV.
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