Off-Script! Yikes!
This just in - Striking Hollywood writers won’t be working up material for the Golden Globes or the Oscars.
As a reluctant award show watcher, I can’t say I’m looking forward to this year’s ceremonies. No writers means no funny…not that there was much of that in the first place.
What people are forgetting in the writer’s strike, now into it’s seventh week, is the indirect impact it has on other workers in the industry. I am talking about the cue-card writers. These people have worked hard - keeping their Bristol boards carefully prepared for the absent minded performers who suffer from memory loss - be it from age or substance abuse. What are they supposed to do now? Write out recipes with markers in huge lettering?
I have a money-making idea for out of work cue-card writers…a protest sign making business. Just think of how legible they’ll get the “Oh no, we won’t go.”