SAG Sits Down With AMPTP Today

Feel that chill in the air this morning?

That was chief negotiator Doug Allen and president Alan Rosenberg sitting down with AMPTP’s chief, Nick Counter at their headquarters in Sherman Oaks.

SAG wants residuals on new media and more of a cut of the DVD/home video revenue. Deja vu? Re-run? Impending doom? Maybe.

LAT did a piece. Hollywood Reporter did one. Variety ditto.

NY Times did the only story focusing on Alan Rosenberg making him out to be a fist-pumping militant:

“Aside from my family, I have two great loves in my life: acting and the fight for social justice,” he said. “Oh yes, we are very serious.”

and

The son of a swing-era musician, Mr. Rosenberg was a war protester in the 1960s, at one point joining the Black Panthers.

Which leads us to conclude that he’s no Reagan.

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