Golden Celebrity

· A striker on the Grey’s Anatomy-boosted Prospect Studios picket line sent in this photo of Katherine Heigl proudly decrying AMPTP president Nick Counter’s weinderdom. This is the picket sign by which all subsequent efforts will be judged.
· Fox has indefinitely postponed the premiere of 24. And considering all the strike-related scheduling changes, it looks [...]

If only all guests of The View carried on with the candor of a Damon Wayans, whose folksy take on such hot-button topics as Don Imus’s return to radio (”When he called them ‘nappy-headed hos,’ I went, ‘Wow. He’s right!’”), and the lack of available women possessing the basic, barefoot culinary skills he demands in [...]

In our last dispatch from the Day Three picket lines for today, a reader reports on some high-profile drop-ins and some possible scab-related intrigue at Culver Studios: “I’m a SAG actor (a nobody) walking the WGA picket lines at Culver Studios today. Minnie Driver shows up with her dog Bubba to hang out with [...]

One person unlikely to be showing up with snacks for picketing WGA members is former head-mouse-in-charge Michael Eisner, who finds the strike to be “insanity” and thinks the writers’ energy would be better spent marching on Steve Jobs’ headquarters, pelting passing cars with the iPod Touches being used to oppress them: “But you’re investing in [...]

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