Monday ... NBC announced it will proceed with airing the 65th annual installment of the Golden Globe Awards ... The ceremony will air on January 13 ... NBC says the show will go on despite the threat of picketing from the Writers Guild of America ... The WGA has refused to grant the Globes a strike waiver ... So if the show does go on (which it will) the guild will be positioning strikers along the sidewalks around the Beverly Hilton Hotel ...
Jeff Hermanson (WGA Strike Coordinator): "If the Globes is telecast and it is produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is a struck company, we will picket the show."
The funny thing is ... the WGA may not need to picket for long ... because Hollywood's biggest stars and nominees may not show up ...
Friday ... The Screen Actors Guild announced that to maintain solidarity with the Hollywood writers on strike ... none of this year's 72 acting nominees will attend the award show ...
Alan Rosenberg (SAG President): "After considerable outreach to Golden Globe actor nominees and their representatives over the past several weeks, there appears to be unanimous agreement that these actors will not cross WGA picket lines to appear on the Golden Globe Awards as acceptors or presenters. We applaud our members for this remarkable show of solidarity for striking Writers Guild of America writers."
Patric Verrone (WGA West President): "We are grateful to our brothers and sisters in SAG for their continued solidarity and support. The entire awards show season is being put in jeopardy by the intransigence of a few big media corporations. We urge the conglomerates to return to the bargaining table they abandoned and negotiate a fair and reasonable deal with writers to put this town back to work."
The WGA has granted waivers permitting writers to contribute to the 14th annual SAG Awards on January 27 and the 2008 Independent Spirits Awards February 23 ...
~Papi Chulo~