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LIVE: WGA Strikewatch; the drums are beating
By Mark London Williams Nov 1, 2007, 23:35 GMT
A photo of The Walt Disney Company studios in Burbank, California, USA, 01 November 2007. Hollywood writers prepair to go on strike if a contract can\'t be agreed upon before the midnight expiration of their current contract. EPA/ANDREW GOMBERT
In some ways, it's analogous to an election day afternoon, here in Los Angeles -- everyone is looking for tea leaves to read, "leaks" to confirm or contradict the speculation of What Will Happen.
Once such tea leaf -- a big fat one -- appeared on the front page of the Writers Guild website this afternoon: Hot links for sign-ups for Picket/Contract captains and teams.
The WGA is meeting tonight, not so much to decide *whether* there'll be a strike, it appears, but simply *when*.
Meanwhile, for a nice redaction of what the issues are, you could do far worse than the summary on the United Hollywood website:
And as we say out here, "stay tuned..."
Mark London Williams is a regular contributor and columnist for Below the Line and has written for Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. Williams is also an award-winning author of the children's literature series, "Danger Boy."
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