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...site for its pro-merger and anti-MembershipFirst stance. MembershipFirst, the group associated with former SAG president Alan Rosenberg and others, has been on the wane for the past three SAG election cycles. In recent weeks, anonymous claims have surfaced...
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This compact, dark-haired character actor gained attention playing divorce lawyer Eli Levinson, a role which he created on the courtroom series "Civil Wars" (ABC, 1991-93) and reprised on another legal show, "L.A. Law" (NBC, 1993-94). New Jersey
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And now the healing can begin. As the so-called moderates claimed a
decisive victory Sept. 24 in the Screen Actors Guild elections, one
thing became clear: The days of SAG leaders lobbing grenades at the
other unions are, at least for the moment, over.
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With his turbulent tenure as SAG president coming to an end, Alan Rosenberg isn't offering any apologies for the past four years.
"I would not change anything I've done," Rosenberg told Daily Variety. "Maybe a few little things, but nothing major.
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The folks back in St. Olaf must be so proud.
The Screen Actors Guild announced today that Betty White will
receive the guild's lifetime achievement award at the 16th annual
Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 23. The honor is given annually
to an actor
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Seymour Cassel, often a lightning rod in SAG politics, has become
the veritable eye of a Category 5 hurricane.
The embattled national board member, who narrowly lost the
presidency to incumbent Alan Rosenberg in September 2007, is at the
center of a
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Backstage
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Seymour Cassel, often a lightning rod in SAG politics, has become
the veritable eye of a Category 5 hurricane.
The embattled national board member, who narrowly lost the
presidency to incumbent Alan Rosenberg in September 2007, is at the
center of a
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My adrenaline spiked a little when I spotted the pale green envelope in my mailbox. "Money!" I thought. It was a logical assumption since the Writer's Guild of America always sends out their residual checks in these lovely wintergreen envelopes. I was
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Anne-Marie Johnson is the official presidential candidate for the Membership First ticket, hoping to regain control of the Screen Actors Guild national board, as Alan Rosenberg opts to step aside.
Membership First leader and SAG prexy Alan
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Seymour Cassel, a national board member for SAG and 50-year acting
veteran who nearly upset Alan Rosenberg for the guild's national
presidency two years ago, told Back Stage that he will seek the
office again, as an independent, making it at least a
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SAG's filing deadline for fall elections came and went Thursday,
and it remains unclear who will face each other for the presidency.
Only Unite for Strength, formed last year in opposition to the
MembershipFirst faction led by SAG president Alan
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The Screen Actors Guild has endorsed the federal health care reform package that's before Congress.
SAG president Alan Rosenberg made the announcement on behalf of the guild on Friday after the House Committee on Education and Labor and the House
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Variety
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As I previously reported, SAG’s counsel in late May filed a motion to dismiss the appeal by SAG president Alan Rosenberg and three other Membership First hardliners (1st VP Anne-Marie Johnson and board members Diane Ladd and Kent McCord) of a Superior
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The people have finally spoken. Or rather, shouted.
The membership of SAG officially ratified its proposed new two-year
TV/theatrical contract Tuesday by a margin of 78 percent to 22
percent. SAG members had been working under the terms of the
previous
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MediaWeek
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He disclosed his intention to reporters this afternoon while waiting for the TV/Theatrical Contract vote results at SAG headquarters. Given the overwhelming count in favor of ratification, and that Alan Rosenberg became the personification of "Vote Yes"
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In a stunning defeat for the hardline Membership First faction, SAG's TV/theatrical contract passed overwhelmingly, by a 78%-22% margin (almost 4 to 1), those numbers according to the guild. Variety first reported the story, prior to the guild's
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Digital Media Law
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I wanted to wait until I'd received at least half a dozen reports to post about what happened at Thursday night's SAG Informational meeting held at the Hollywood Reneaissance Hotel about the tentative Theatrical/TV Contract with the AMPTP now mailed to
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Deadline Hollywood Daily
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/inside-sags-theatricaltv-contract-informational-meeting-to-ratify-or-not/
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Having separated from husband Alan Rosenberg since late last year, Marg Helgenberger finally filed legal papers to have her divorce from the stage and film actor legalized in the eyes of the law. The "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" actress cited
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Celebitchy aims to be a friendly, welcoming site where people can discuss entertainment stories and current events in a lighthearted, safe environment without fear of harassment, excessive negativity, or bullying. Different opinions,
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Celebrities, music, videos, tv, Hollywood gossip, photos, rumors, and more, right now on lalate.com, breaking and exclusive direct from Hollywood!
Listen FIRST on LALATE to Whitney Houston's confirmed comeback single "I Look to You" with R Kelly! Plus
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Lalate News
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...Helgenberger od CSI fame has filed for divorce from her husband, Alan Rosenberg. According to divorce papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Helgenberger cited irreconcilable differences with Rosenberg. Alan Rosenberg is the current president of the Screen...
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The Top Socialite
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After one of the most contentious periods in SAG history, guild president Alan Rosenberg has been taking a break.
Instead of wrangling union issues he's spent the past few weeks directing a play -- in Cleveland.
"After all that happened in Los
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Variety
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.
Just ask Screen Actors Guild President Alan Rosenberg, who has been the leading hard-liner in the actors’ negotiations with media companies over a new labor contract.
Mr. Rosenberg
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TV Week
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February 18, 2009
By Jay A. Fernandez and Andrew Salomon
A special appeal filed by Screen Actors Guild president Alan Rosenberg, 1st vice president Anne-Marie Johnson, and national board members Diane Ladd and Kent
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Backstage
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Screen Actors Guild President Alan Rosenberg's latest effort to block
resumption of negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and
Television Producers was blocked Friday when a three-judge appeals court
turned down his request for a ruling to
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February 16, 2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California appeals court on Friday denied an attempt by the president of the largest U.S. actors union to block upcoming contract negotiations with Hollywood's major studios.
Alan
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California appeals court on Friday denied an attempt by the president of the largest U.S. actors union to block upcoming contract negotiations with Hollywood's
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An AMPTP (studio alliance) spokesman confirmed to me today that negotiations between the studios and SAG are still on for next Tuesday and Wednesday, as previously announced, despite a threat from SAG President Alan Rosenberg's lawyers that any deal
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Huffington Post
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Mike Farrell, an ardent supporter of the new SAG National Majority and for three years SAG’s First VP under President Melissa Gilbert and one year as a National and Hollywood Board member, has written his view of the Hollywood Division's recent open
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Deadline Hollywood Daily
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/mike-farrell-describes-sag-hwood-meeting/
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The SAG Board met yesterday and re-affirmed actions already taken in writing two weeks earlier: the ouster of former National Executive Director Doug Allen and the replacement of the negotiating team. That action paves the way for resumed contract
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Huffington Post
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Representatives of SAG and the Alliance of Motion Picture &
Television Producers are expected Tuesday to announce the
resumption of their film and TV contract talks, most likely on Feb.
17.
On Monday, a group of below-the-line workers staged a rally
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Alan Rosenberg (right) failed in his bid to reinstate Doug Allen (left)
A bid to stop contract talks between the Screen Actors Guild and studios has been blocked by a Los Angeles judge.
Talks to
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SAG president Alan Rosenberg's final opportunity to preserve his strike-hungry executive director and negotiating committee fizzled this morning in Superior Court.
Judge James Chalfant needed one hour to rebuff Rosenberg and his curious counselor Eric
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Defamer
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The Screen Actors Guild and president Alan Rosenberg are resuming their court battle over the firing of SAG topper Doug Allen.
Rosenberg was in court Thursday morning in downtown Los Angeles waiting for a hearing on his revised request for the
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Welcome to today's installment of "As the Guild Turns."
David White, interim national executive director of the Screen
Actors Guild, has called a special bicoastal national board meeting
for Sunday. While the agenda is not officially disclosed,
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With 'civil war,' the guild is despondent and its future uncertain.
February 03, 2009
The Screen Actors Guild's bitterly divided national board of directors held a meeting Jan. 12–13 to decide whether to ask members to
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Backstage
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A lawsuit to be filed this morning by Screen Actors Guild president Alan Rosenberg against his own union has blocked scheduled negotiations between the Guild and the studio alliance, or AMPTP. The development marks a stunning turn in a SAG negotiating
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Huffington Post
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- In the first week of its online launch, TheWrap.Com ran an exclusive, candid print and video interview with Alan Rosenberg, the president of SAG, in which he stated "My life sucks," and asserted that he has
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In the early days of Alan Rosenberg's tenure as president of the Screen Actors Guild, I wrote admiringly of his commitment to challenge the status quo. People scoffed, saying the idealistic TV actor -- he even played a softhearted children's legal
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Los Angeles Times
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This whole SAG presidency thing may not be working out so well for Alan Rosenberg, but so what? His blues-career Plan B is taking off before our eyes — have a listen after the jump!
Still wiped out in the aftermath of Doug Allen's dismissal and amid
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Defamer
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SAG national executive director and chief negotiator Doug Allen has
been removed from his posts under tremendous pressure from opposing
forces on the national board critical of his handling of the
guild's TV/theatrical contract negotiations.
Moderate
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...from inside SAG's marathon board meeting blasted Screen Actors Guild President Alan Rosenberg as a "corrupt and dirty chair," asserting that he and his Membership First allies repeatedly abused parliamentary rules throughout the "surreal" 28-hour national...
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...initially floated the contract-vote proposal in a recent executive session of the SAG board. Instead, he and SAG president Alan Rosenberg spent most of Monday and Tuesday fighting efforts by disgruntled board members to oust him as their chief negotiator in...
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Hollywood Reporter
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...Director Doug Allen was tossed aside Tuesday in Los Angeles, President Alan Rosenberg indicated. SAG President Alan Rosenberg holds a replica plaque during an unveiling ceremony honoring the Screen Actors Guild with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...
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United Press International
http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2009/01/13/SAG_president_No_action_taken_at_meeting/UPI-35391231902719/
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...six months over a new TV and film contract. Among several objections to the proposed deal, Allen, national president Alan Rosenberg and a majority of the negotiating committee oppose the terms for work in new media, terms that the other Hollywood unions have...
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...in Los Angeles on Monday for the first day of a two-day emergency meeting. Called in mid-December by SAG national president Alan Rosenberg as a result of pressure from the guild's moderate faction, the meeting was expected to focus on whether to follow through...
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Hollywood Reporter
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...in 2009, and disaster looms. Fortunately, cooler heads at the Screen Actors Guild seem to be prevailing on SAG president Alan Rosenberg to rethink his call for a strike. But broadcasters are girding for the worst. Most of the major TV studios are looking to...
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MediaWeek
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...set to begin on Jan. 2nd, but now it won't begin until Jan. 14th. Executive Director Doug Allen—together with SAG President Alan Rosenberg—hopes to use the delay to further educate the membership about the negotiations and to unify the now divided organization....
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Entertainment Weekly
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/12/sag-delays-stri.html?xid=rss-movies-SAG+delays+strike+vote
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...by Jan. 23. But in an e-mail to board members Monday night, SAG Executive Director Doug Allen said he and SAG President Alan Rosenberg agreed to push back the strike referendum until after the board convened a special meeting Jan. 12 to "address the unfortunate...
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Los Angeles Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2008/12/sag-calls-for-s.html
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...a strong message that we are serious about fending off rollbacks and getting what is fair for actors in new media,” said Alan Rosenberg, SAG president. (SAG press release) Rosenberg stressed that SAG’s aim is to negotiate a contract that remunerates actors...
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