Will the Oscars be picketed?

Variety says perhaps not, in light of several new developments:

• The guild said it would not picket the Grammys, set for Feb 10.

• The guild has dropped its demands for representation of reality-show writers.

• With the DGA settlement at least in the same universe as the writers’ new media demands, the guild and the studios began talks today to begin talking about maybe starting talking again.

At the same time, however, pickets were out in force again in LA, and in New York a west coast guild official played bad cop, saying at a rally in Manhattan that the guild was still planning on picketing the Oscars if an agreement wasn’t reached.

The story also contains a lot of information on how the Oscars may be affected if the strike goes on, and crunches some of the DGA numbers.

Details from Jeff Leeds in the Times here.


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