Monday, November 5, 2007
Pop Culture YouTube: ‘Heroes of the Writer's Strike’
Posted by Curt Holman @Curt_Holman on Mon, Nov 5, 2007 at 3:26 PM
The members of Hollywood’s Writer’s Guild of America have gone on strike. Shows most immediately vulnerable to the write-stoppage will be fake-news programs like “The Daily Show†and “The Colbert Report,†as well as talk shows like "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," with episodic television and movies having stockpiled scripts in advance.
For a tongue-in-cheek portrait of how the strike will effect the screenwriters, some WGA members wrote and directed this humorous, PSA-type short on YouTube. It may have an unintended consequence, however: Given that the screenwriters depicted include the scribes of the likes of the the Deuce Bigelow movies and Sweet Home Alabama, maybe they should stay on strike.
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