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Bess Kalb
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Writer and producer of TV and movie and book and children.
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Whenever Shonda Rhimes drops a new show, I think of the ABC executive who asked her "Don't you have enough?" when she asked for 1 extra pass at Disneyland, prompting her to end her relationship with the network and take all of her talent elsewhere.
What a fumble.
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Things are not canceled because of the WGA strike. Things are canceled because networks, studios, and streamers are not fairly compensating writers for their work.
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This kind of misleading headline is why we’re striking. Jennifer Coolidge would have hosted SNL if the AMPTP didn’t threaten to replace its writers with AI.
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Saturday Night Live fans, want to know what you are missing? Kieran Culkin and Jennifer Coolidge were set to host the final two episodes of the season before the writers strike forced an end to season 48 of the venerable NBC show deadline.com/2023/05/writer
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I ride this exact train many times a week, and many times a week there are "disorderly" people because they are suffering in a country where mental health resources aren't guaranteed. If someone is desperately hungry, you give them a dollar and a granola bar, not a chokehold. twitter.com/AP/status/1654
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DREW BARRYMORE YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS
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Drew Barrymore has dropped out as host of the MTV Movie and TV Awards, saying she’s doing so in solidarity with the #writersstrike. The show has also canceled its red carpet: thr.cm/5TckBVJ
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Just an FYI to actors, if you’re on set rewriting or improvising dialogue on a WGA show or movie because the writers are on strike, that counts as scabbing and you are hurting the fight against streamers for everyone ✌️
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He wasn’t even at the meeting this morning to tell us we won’t get paid after this week. please support your staff. Had fun bowling with ya last week, but a fun party won’t pay my rent
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Last night a lot of A-list celebs were asked if they support the writers' strike.
Jimmy Fallon said, "I wouldn't have a show if it wasn't for my writers, I support them all the way."
Who else supports the strike? Thread.
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I made it into the trades for NOT having a job! (Deadline is breaking out my old credits like they're trying to impress my in-laws' friends.)
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‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ writer Josh Gondelman in NYC at #WritersStrike: “The solidarity is impressive and not surprising”
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Idiots: AI will write way better TV shows than screenwriters anyway.
The AI:
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the greed of studio CEOs is completely erasing the ability to be a creative who isn’t rich from the start. actors, writers, artists, animators, designers, wardrobe — everyone should be able to pursue an artistic career. Not just people with rich parents.
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Anti-choice men: Every woman you know has either had an abortion, had a D&C for a miscarriage, taken mifepristone for a miscarriage, has been there for a loved one who accessed one of these reproductive healthcare choices, or is lying to you to protect herself and/or her friends!
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A near-total ban on abortion failed in South Carolina, just hours before a six-week ban fizzled in Nebraska, signaling a mounting fear among some Republicans that abortion bans could lead to political backlash. wapo.st/3AAwpVz
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I see we're doing "Twitter is beyond saving, join me on BleepBlorp, the interface is a little rocky but you'll get used to it" again.
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Studios “can’t build, maintain or grow their streaming businesses without the content our writers create,” WGAW research director Laura Blum-Smith tells . “There’s no question...they can afford to pay writers appropriately for their value.” #WGAstrong
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You thought you could pay the popular kids to hang out with you, , and they’re all laughing at you.
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I have a blue check again but I am not Twitter blue and I did not ask for this I cannot see my hands I am fading in and out between alternate dimensions help meeeeeeee
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If only there were some kind of metaphor for Elon Musk's year.
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The biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, Space X's Starship, launches in Texas before a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" during ascent
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