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Re: it's groundhog day!

tvboy2 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:05:41 -0000

Get 'em Jerry !

Re: empty space

tvboy2 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:45:57 -0000

That's Visual Nomad's space !!!!

Re: some girls

tvboy2 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:11:59 -0000

I think there are women directors and great directors who happen to be women. Not recognizing that distinction is part of the problem. Pam Thomas, Liz Friedlander, Kathryn Bigelow, Peggy, Annabel certainly qualify for the latter.

What do all the women who run production companies think? Diane McArter, Edie Weiss, Mindy, More appropriate for them to answer than for the men. What do Susan Credle, Donna Weinheim, Helayne Spivak, or Linda Kaplan Thaler think? Are they giving gigs to directors who are women?

Re: stolen moments

tvboy2 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:19:56 -0000

Jerry,

Another few weeks and you would have Apple tablet, which will blow the Kindle away (or at least make them slash the price). A friend who works at Apple told me the book and magazine publishers really don't like Amazon and are overjoyed that Jobs will save the publishing, newspaper and magazine industries.

But enjoy the Kindle. And the frosty NY air.

Re: "ask not..." first impressions from a long day

tvboy2 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:46:45 -0000

I will always open my big mouth when requested.
The more venues the better !!

Re: "ask not..." first impressions from a long day

tvboy2 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:24:49 -0000

Jerry: great post till the last paragraph. I think a lot of members would give you a list of the financial and other support they give the AICP. And asking them to not expect anything more in return is feeding the fire. Just don't lose that edge that in the past provided much-needed skepticism of AICP actions and effectiveness now that you are part of policy-making. Too much "reasonability" seem to be the problem, not the solution.

Re: back to zero

tvboy2 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:14:35 -0000

"Inferior Director" is all in the eye of the beholder.

Re: the written word

tvboy2 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:41:54 -0000

Strunk & White should be built into Microsoft Word and every texting platform.

(Most people would say: "What is Strunk & White?")

Re: peer chatter

tvboy2 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:29:50 -0000

Jerry,

I think the route you speak of has received the same type of lip service and dancing-around for over 20 years. The issues have not changed. Mark-up, non-payment, agency contracts were all issue in the 80's and very little has been done to affect change.

And you miss the point. Why aren't industry leaders going as a group to Procter & Gamble? They are very reasonable and impressionable people. The Bud guys are not. But certainly both would understand a group of industry leaders in their faces pushing back against bad business practice.
Going public is a last resort, but should certainly be a weapon in the arsenal.

That these issues have not been seriously pushed back for many years means that every company is on its own. No matter how much you and other EP's get together and negotiate good deals with the trade unions and DGA, very few of your competitors will leave money on the table if the two choices are less and none. You have written the tales how how agencies and clients want you to fight with competitors over the right to lose or "invest" in their commercials. Do you think this will end with the wave of a wand?

And its not just about the guys living in NY and Hollywood. There are thousands of tradesmen who are in financial peril now. Grips, gaffers, video guys, script supervisors et al who depend on you and the other companies (as you well know) to make a living. They benefit by your success and they have taken the brunt of the margin shrinkage of the day.

And by the way, I didn't post using my name, so thanks for that.

Re: peer chatter

tvboy2 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:31:41 -0000

Jerry,

I don't understand why the AICP doesn't mock up an ad for the Wall Street Journal and go to Budweiser and P&G and say: "We are going to run this on Monday and let consumers and your employees and all the unions that work for you know: you are participating in what we consider unfair business and labor practices and sending jobs away from the US.

I think you'd get them to re-think a few things. Only aggressive action will save what is left of the ability to make good money in production.

Re: larry bird and the x-man

tvboy2 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:21:06 -0000

Too much transparency? How can that be bad. How about more.

Re: groucho

tvboy2 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:19:20 -0000

Uh oh, Jerry. They got you.

Re: tgif

tvboy2 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:29:21 -0000

Jerry, if you are tired of your gig and decide to retire, about 87 of us out here would love to interview for it !!!!!!