Writers Guild talks

Steven Mikulan in the LA Weekly sets the scene for the upcoming contract talks between Hollywood screenwriters and producers. With the Writers Guild's president under siege, financial pressures and the actors' guilds already settling, Mikulan writes that "this year’s negotiations promise to make nuclear-disarmament talks with North Korea look like a Sunday-morning swap meet." Meanwhile, WGA member Roger L. Simon is aiding a push for guild president Charles Holland's recall.