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L.A. City Council and film industry again clash over green bike lanes
The L.A. City Council and the film industry are once again on a collision course over a green-colored bike lane downtown. City officials painted a 1.5-mile strip of Spring Street neon green in 2011 for a bike lane as part of a larger effort pushed by...
Tags: Cinema Industry, Antonio Villaraigosa, Rupert Murdoch
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SAG-AFTRA members give big thumbs up to new commercials contracts
SAG-AFTRA members overwhelmingly approved new contracts covering work in commercials. The new three-year contracts, which cover performers working in commercials for television, radio, the Internet and new media, were approved by a 96% margin, the union...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Wage Contract Issues, Collective Contract, Unions
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Oregon governor enters fracas over closing of SAG-AFTRA office
A squabble within SAG-AFTRA over closing the union's Oregon branch has reached all the way to governor's office. Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber has taken the surprising step of wading into the union's controversial decision to shut its Oregon office,...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Leverage (tv show), David White, TNT (tv network), Grimm (tv program)
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Greuel cites high-profile role as an executive at DreamWorks SKG
Wendy Greuel's resume is dotted with the political accomplishments of a politician on the rise. But there was an unconventional detour: her stint as an executive at DreamWorks SKG, working alongside Hollywood titans Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg...
Tags: Laura Innes, U.S. Supreme Court, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, 2012 Democratic National Convention, The Amistad
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Disney withdraws trademark filing for 'Dia de los Muertos'
If the dead could speak, they probably wouldn't have been heard over the burst of virtual shouting and howling Walt Disney Co. drew for attempting to trademark "Dia de los Muertos" -- a bid it has since dropped. The company filed 10 applications with...
Tags: Grateful Dead (music group), Pixar Animation Studios, The Walt Disney Co., Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Holidays
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‘Iron Man 3′: Guy Pearce transforms himself for role (spoilers)
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles Times“Iron Man 3″ pits genius billionaire Tony Stark, played with panache by Robert Downey Jr., against a terrorist plot that ...... -
L.A.'s screen-star mayors
Hollywood, as much of the world does not realize, is merely a neighborhood within the city limits of Los Angeles. It hasn’t been its own city for 103 years, and yet it’s the tiny, glamorous tail wagging the city’s workaday dog, which...
Tags: George Burns, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Gracie Allen, Television, Entertainment
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Oregon business group wants to keep SAG-AFTRA office open (updated)
Politics makes strange bedfellows, especially in Hollywood. Case in point: A trade group representing the business interests of Oregon's major production companies has joined forces with local labor leaders -- to keep a local union office from closing....
Tags: Leverage (tv show), TNT (tv network), David White
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Swoosie Kurtz picks herself up off cutting-room floor
Swoosie Kurtz, who plays Melissa McCarthy's outrageous mother, Joyce, on the hit CBS sitcom "Mike & Molly," got her first lesson in the fickleness of show business more than 50 years ago in a production of Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" at...
Tags: Dangerous Liaisons (movie), PBS (tv network), Tony Awards, Entertainment Events, Melissa McCarthy
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SAG-AFTRA announces plan to cut 60 jobs
This post was updated at 5:50 p.m.SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood actors and other performers, said Sunday it is eliminating 60 positions from the organization as part of plan to balance its budget. The layoffs, about 10% of the jobs at the union, represent the second wave...Tags: Celebrities, Job Layoffs, Career and Workplace, Advertising, Wage Contract Issues
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SAG-AFTRA and advertisers reach deal on new commercials contract
After seven weeks of negotiations, SAG-AFTRA and a group representing advertisers said they reached a deal on new contracts covering actors and other performers who work in television and radio commercials. But neither group wanted to broadcast the...
Tags: Celebrities, Radio, Entertainment, Marketing, Television Industry
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SAG-AFTRA and advertisers extend contract talks
Actors hoping for a new commercials contract will have to wait a little longer. Negotiators with SAG-AFTRA and the Joint Policy Committee representing the advertising industry have agreed to extend for one week the agreements covering actors who work in...
Tags: Celebrities
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