Movies: Emailer BM, who seems to have it when it comes to the inside of the movie biz, points out three things,1. The movie box office is down for the 12th consecutive week, 2. The only portion of the market enjoying higher ticket sales is the over 35 market, and 3. Fear is running rampant that Star Wars ain't going to be the mega hit people are pretending.

As I pointed out before, the 25 and under market, particularly men, are into video and computer games; girls are playing too; and the story telling form is tired.

I'd never tell you not to see any movie featuring that traitor Jane Fonda.

File under: what do you expect from freeloaders? SAG members working as extras shut down a movie for hours. For your information, extra work is like being paid for sleeping on the job. SAG took over jurisdiction from the Extras Guild several years ago. As a long time actor, the way to handle "something wrong" is to call the union, the union guy comes out, looks around and if the complaint has merit he can pull every actor off the job. This wildcat strike might hurt movie making in New York. You can't just decide for yourself to go on strike. It is a violation of the union contract (Contract? We don't have to obey no stinking contract.). I've been on plenty of shoots where things weren't right, but somebody always called the union with the rest of the actors backing him up. Excepting the one where we were being exposed to a fucking chimp, the union rep settled things; like not having a rest room in sight; the time we sat out in Death Valley without water while the fucking stars were getting drunk; and the time we were sent into high crime South Central LA with a white cast and crew---trust me, those Black people down there wanted to kill us---and the Black union rep refused to come down. I mean, life ain't fair. However, I had an experience in New York where the entire upper end of the Guild was on the take from agents and refused to help me....the West Coast Local took care of things.