Clackamas Print
Arts Culture 3
Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008
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sks, when will it end?
Kylei Steele
PheCjtipkamns Print
By now most television
lowers have noticed a lack
1 new sitcoms and dramas,
d anplarming amount of
:d reality shows popping
i each day, the result of
cuiyent writers strike in
i llywood.
Popular shows like
he Office,” “Desperate
usewives” and “CSI” have
me to an early season end,
1 many movies have been
icellfed, due to a lack of
rking writers. With both
n and television affected,
the industry likely won’t
start back up for some
time.
“It’s going to be inter
esting to see how it pans
out,” said Screenwriting
and Film Instructor Sue
Mach. “I think it’s going
to last awhile.”
The strike began on
Nov. 5, 2007, when
talks broke down
between the Writer’s
Guild of America
(WGA), a group of
12,000 television
and film writers,
and the Alliance of
Motion Pictures
and Television
Producers
(AMPTP) over
issues ranging
from residuals
from DVDs to
how writers will
be paid as new
**-
media outlets
become common means of
watching television. These
outlets include the Internet
and programs such as iTunes,
where shows can be accessed
without resulting in pay for
their writers.
“The writers have never
been more united,” wrote
writer Yahlin Chang in an
e-mail. “The more the com
panies have tried to beat us
down, the more united we
have become.”
Chang’s current work can
be seen on episodes of ABC’s
“Dirty Sexy Money.”
Since November, many TV
shows, lacking the help of
writers who previously were
able to do rewrites while
filming, have had to finish
shooting using scripts that
studios have had on hand.
“Television production
has been mostly shut down.
Shows have gone into repeats,
with no new episodes coming
down the pike,” Chang said.
“Movies have been called
off because there’s no one
to write them or do rewrites.
Even if the strike were to .
end today, it will take at least
six weeks to two months for
shows to start airing again
while we write scripts.”
However, some television
shows may actually benefit
from the strike. “Bubble
shows,” or programs that
don’t have a large audience,
may get a second chance
when the strike ends, as the
dispute has now lasted into
pilot season and studios do
not have replacements for
said programs. ,
The fate of movies in the
upcoming year doesn’t look
so promising.
“For the movies that are
still in production,” Chang
said, “I foresee a bunch of
bad movies coming out in a
year or so.”
'lackamas chosen to
iost ‘The Big Read’
iolleen Watkins
Bale Balbi
'he Clackamas Print
Attention readers of all
Dlafkamas will host an event
ed “The Big Read” Feb. 1
pugh|18.
According to the Web site for
5 Big Read, www.neabigread.
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I Dean of Humanities Bill
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Bradbury’s collections, took
place at the Osterman Theater.
John Frohnmayer, the for
mer chairman of the NEA,
will kick off The Big Read at
•Clackamas.'. He will speak at
Osterman Theater on Friday,
Feb. 1, at 7:30 p.m.
The second event will be
the showing of the movie
“Fahrenheit 451,” which is
based on the book by Bradbury.
It will be shown from 8 a.m.
through 4 p.m.
The Big Read does not tar
get a select group of people.
“The idea of The Big Read
is to get more people to read,”
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The most important event is
the Student Soap Box on Feb.
18.
“It gives students an oppor
tunity to speak whatever is on
their mind,” Braire said.
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America and the guarantee
of the First Amendment,” he
added.
The Student Soap Box will
be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
All of The Big Read activi
ties are free.
The Big Read is geared
toward everyone. Reading is
just as simple as opening a
book.
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