Award Central '09
WGA East backs Net neutrality
Supports New York City Council resolution
The Writers Guild of America East has backed a New York City Council resolution urging the Federal Communications Commission to adopt Net neutrality standards for Internet service providers.

DGA to honor Robert Iger, Barry Meyer
Disney, Warners chiefs will receive lifetime kudos
The studio chiefs will receive the DGA Honorary Life Member Award for their industry leadership.

SAG taps award presenters
Applegate, Hamm will be among those onstage
Christina Applegate, Kyra Sedgwick, Jon Hamm, John Krasinski, Angela Bassett and Eric McCormack have been tapped as presenters for the 15th Screen Actor Guild Awards.

ACE to honor Richard Donner
Editors will fete filmmaker with Golden Eddie
The American Cinema Editors will fete Richard Donner with the org's Golden Eddie filmmaker of the year nod at the 59th ACE Eddie Awards.

Proposed voting boycott riles SAG
Anonymous email singles out eight actors
The Screen Actors Guild's battle over its strike authorization has taken an especially nasty turn, thanks to a suggested boycott of eight actors who are up for SAG awards.

Friday's SAG confab canceled
Rosenberg calls off national board meeting
SAG president Alan Rosenberg has called off Friday's emergency national board meeting after objections rose over requiring that reps attend the Los Angeles confab in person.

SAG talks may resume next week
Mediator Gonzalez meets with AMPTP
The long-running stalemate between the Screen Actors Guild and the majors may be ending soon -- possibly as early as next week.

SAG could strike in November
National board to meet next weekend
The Screen Actors Guild could go on strike before the end of November.

SAG, AFTRA aid disabled actors
Unions mount joint initiative for 'PWD'
SAG, AFTRA and Actors Equity Assn. are mounting a joint initiative to push for expanded job opportunities for disabled actors.

SAG to powwow after majors' rebuff
Guild strategizes after rejection of contract talks
The Screen Actors Guild's national negotiating committee is set to meet today in the wake of the majors' rejection of the guild's latest request to restart contract negotiations.

Art Directors honor Paul Sylbert
Guild to hold annual awards gala Feb. 14
The Art Directors Guild will honor Paul Sylbert with the lifetime achievement award at its annual awards gala Feb. 14 at the Beverly Hilton.

SAG refocuses on three key issues
AMPTP stands by its June 30 offer
Screen Actors Guild leaders are seeking to zero in on three make-or-break issues as a means of jumpstarting their stalled contract talks with the majors, but the studios say there will be no new talks unless SAG is prepared to change its positions on those issues.

WGA pushes a new reality
Guild labors for improved 'Idol'
In its first major post-strike campaign, the Writers Guild of America has completed a monthlong push to organize reality shows by targeting allegedly unfair working conditions on "American Idol."

SAG insists it's still talking to majors
AMPTP denies continuing 'informal discussions'
The Screen Actors Guild's continuing to insist that it's still engaged in contract talks with the majors -- while the congloms have countered by saying SAG's all wet.

SAG's national board holds meeting
Guild not expected to take action this weekend
Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild have been meeting over the contract stalemate with majors, amid muted expectations that SAG will take any action this weekend.

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