Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists: Settlement of the July 14-29 Motion Picture and Radio Strikes
Writers may soon be back to work, but without actors, Hollywood productions will likely remain at a standstill. The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has been on strike since July.
The guild’s negotiating committee said in an email that the deal was an exceptional one with meaningful gains and protections for writers.
The agreement was finalized over several nights of bargaining between the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers through the middle and end of the past week.
Studios like Warner Bros. Discovery have to make adjustments to their projections because of the strikes. In July, Netflix estimated it would have an extra $1.5 billion in free cash flow, while Warner Bros. Discovery lowered its earnings expectations by about $300 to $500 million for 2023.
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A Tale of Mustafa al-Trabelsi: The Story of a Damned Libyan Flood Manifold
There is just five days left to avoid a government shutdown. A shutdown would directly affect the economy, with hundreds of thousands of government workers going without pay.
NASA scientists are celebrating the safe landing of a canister containing about a cup’s worth of asteroid rocks in a Utah desert after a 7-year NASA mission sent to retrieve them.
A story. It was a warning. A prophecy. That is what Mustafa al-Trabelsi left behind when the floods in Derna swept him away with much of his Libyan city more than two weeks ago.
He died with thousands of others. But the words he wrote and reposted on Facebook just hours before the floods now capture the sentiment of a nation that is grieving and angry. Libyans say they’ve lived with years of conflict and corruption that compounded the impact of Storm Daniel. The reason for the poet to translate the poem into English can be heard in the poem.
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Stop Making Sense: Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, and David Byrne, remembering their 40th anniversary with Morning Edition
The messy breakup of the Talking Heads is a major part of the band’s legacy, with its four members rarely appearing in public together. Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and David Byrne recently sat down with Morning Edition’s Steve Inskeep to discuss the 40th anniversary re-release of Stop Making Sense, the concert film that captured them in their prime in 1983. As they reminisced on those days and all that’s happened since, there was a sense of warmth, nostalgia and growth. Listen to their conversation and read an expanded version.