Turn Off Your TV and Internet Shows

It appears that the only way to get the AMPTP to understand the power of the Labor Minded America and world at large is to hit them where it hurts, and that is in their pockets. As they have done to all of us who work in the industry. True, the WGA offers loans to its members to get them through this crises, however, the remainder of the industry does not have this opportunity. People are going hungry and without medication. Yes, in the great State of California in the United States of America, people who have nothing to gain or lose by the outcome of the negotiations are the ones who are paying the dearest price.

TV stars jumped to the occasion to rapidly shut their shows down in solidarity, and in part in a fleeting moment for some free "PR" and news feeds. Let's call it what it really is, I know, I've been to all of the rallies in support myself, and watched as all of those interviews took place as close as two feet away. Not to diminish their shining moment or their sincerity, but time and again I was dissappointed about the lack of extended insight after a minute or two of their speaking. I myself know how one can forget and go blank when a microphone is shoved in your face, but when you write a speech please make sure you have a couple of qualified intelligent people read it for you first.

Again, for the AMPTP, you have time and again tried to take the pie for yourself. Everyday comes new technologies. As I wrote in my movie contracts as a performer, that my percentages would be based on all current and future technologies, forms of distributions, and physical hard copy formats, whether currently invented, currently in use, or not. I rewrite and modify all of my contracts. To leave it to others is leaving a door open for strangers to enter and remove your belongings and your future. To the AMPTP, everyone deserves a piece of the pie, the most fortunate thing that exists is that with everyday we get a new pie. The Internet is another pie, tomorrow is another day.

When it comes to money, I once heard Bette Davis say that "we never would have asked for so much money if Jack Warner hadn't been so mean!" Recalling the reason movie stars made so much money anyway, her further recallection was, "We never expected that they would give it to us!" That said, the more mean, you- the AMPTP, the more mean you are to us now, the more we, "all of the industry," will ask of you in the future when you need us most. Like Elephants, we never forget.

America and the world at large, turn off your internet programs, and if need be, turn off your televisions too.

Peppi Turco
Hollywood, California

The studios are just trying to stick it to the writers, and I'm not sure why. The numbers have been published as to what it would cost the studios if they agreed to the writers demands, and it peanuts in the grand scheme of things.

The problem is the executives will keep getting paid while all the rank and file workers are laid off, so they don't care I suppose. Thank goodness for the internet and gaming. TV's audience will continue to shrink. Good move studios, sigh...

The studios are just trying to stick it to the writers, and I'm not sure why. The numbers have been published as to what it would cost the studios if they agreed to the writers demands, and it peanuts in the grand scheme of things.

The problem is the executives will keep getting paid while all the rank and file workers are laid off, so they don't care I suppose. Thank goodness for the internet and gaming. TV's audience will continue to shrink. Good move studios, sigh...