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14 August 2008 10:24 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Although they themselves presumably don't have enough time to run for a place on the Screen Actors Guild's national board, a group of prominent actors on Wednesday endorsed a dissident group of not-so-well-known actors who do. The group signed a message to SAG's membership from Sally Field saying that the actions of the union's current leadership had "destroyed" her faith in its ability "to effectively represent our interests as performers." She particularly condemned the leadership's inability to form a united front with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists against the producers. "If this leadership stays in place, the bad relations with AFTRA will persist, and we'll continue to negotiate contracts from a position of division and weakness," she said. Among 49 other actors supporting Field in calling for support of the candidate slate called Unite for Strength were such stars as Alec Baldwin, Ed Begley, Jr., Lewis Black, Peter Coyote, Marcia Cross, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Tom Hanks, Patricia Heaton, Felicity Huffman, Anthony Lapaglia, Rob Lowe, William H. Macy, Ron Perlman, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Tony Shalhoub, Elizabeth Shue, Gary Sinise, Eric Stoltz, John Turturro, Nia Vardalos, and Steven Weber. Previously Unite for Strength had been criticized for its inability to persuade well-known actors to challenge the leadership slate known as Membership First in September's board election.

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5 August 2008 11:58 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

Frequently hilarious, occasionally sweet and often graphically violent, "Pineapple Express" may not be the greatest stoner movie ever made, but it will do perfectly well until we get another hit of Harold and Kumar.

Seth Rogen and James Franco have terrific chemistry as, respectively, a semi-straight stoner and the addled drug dealer who finally achieves his goal of becoming the stoner's pal when the two are obliged to go on the run from a band of killers.

Director David Gordon Green, better known for micro-budgeted indie

By LOU LUMENICK

1 July 2008 11:51 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

I don't have a problem with actors and filmmakers juggling commerce and craft. If you like making documentaries about monks and they're great documentaries, that can be its own reward...but it probably doesn't pay very well. So, if somebody wants you to be a villain in a kid's movie, why not? It'll pay the mortgage and allow you to keep doing what you're good at, making those monk documentaries.

Christopher Guest falls squarely into that category. The man behind the mockumentaries Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration doesn't get rich making his very specific style of film. In fact, he might make just as much directing the new series of DirecTV ads featuring members of his ensemble, Ed Begley Jr. and Michael Hitchcock. So if Guest wants to take a role in a movie guaranteed to make money and earn an easy payday for a change,

Colin Boyd

3 articles from 2008