ACTORS AND ETHICS, AN OXYMORON ON THE LEFT COAST

Show Biz Bullshit: the newly elected SAG board has fired all the old executives and taken over. They not only fired their leader, a guy named Hessinger, but they are refusing to honor the contract he had with the Guild (here come da law soots). The New Gang will go on strike if the studios don't cave on DVD resids for actors. The last "strike" they called cost them millions in lost wages and netted them zero. Actors refused to picket and the Guild simply pulled nobodies off the street and gave them SAG cards if they marched on the picket line. Initiation fees of $1,500 for everyone were waived without a peep from the rank and file.

SAG President Alan Rosenberg said in a statement that SAG members expected "concrete results" in collective bargaining and organizing efforts.

"After much consideration and debate, the national board has decided to make a change in our staff leadership that will allow us to focus our resources more intensely in these areas,"

Now there are a lot of actors who think this tactic is wrong and hypocritical

"It is an ugly, brutal development, and it is only unexpected in its having happened so soon," said former "M*A*S*H" star Mike Farrell, who described Hessinger as "a good and smart and decent professional" who proved himself capable during his short tenure. He called the Membership First faction "a group of angry, destructive, mean-spirited dissidents" who were putting the union's future in jeopardy.

"Hey, Mike! Go fuck yourself. Union jeopardy has never stopped us actors before." The totally Left Writers Guild similarly trashed their leadership

SAG's firing of Hessinger comes in the wake of a similar move by the Writers Guild of America, West. Its newly elected leadership, which also has pushed for toughening its negotiations with Hollywood studios, canned Executive Director John McLean last month.

Writers have a history of long long strikes that net not much of anything too but they are usually rescued when their producer-writer members finally put their Left feet down. Ethics has never stopped the Commie Left. They are only interested in money (Commies interested in money is hypocrisy, not an oxymoron).

"Ethics? We don't need no stinking ethics. We're actors. We're writers. We're Democrats and nobody is as unethical as George W. Bush. Bush is the unethical one, don't forget that."

Stay tuned. Or don't. Crotch scratch to Defamer who linked to this.