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Thursday, November 15, 2007
David Letterman - What a great employer
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Strike or not, employees of the “Late Show With David Letterman” and the “The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson” will be paid through year’s end. Both are produced by Letterman’s Worldwide Pants banner, which notified employees in New York and Los Angeles that they will be paid regardless of whether the shows return. It would make Worldwide Pants the first known company to guarantee its staff a paycheck during the writers strike.
What a classy move by David Letterman. He stood by the writers and refused to cross the picket line (as did Jay Leno), and now he’s paying them out of his own pocket for at least six weeks. On the other side of the coin - Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen took one day off to supposedly stand by her writers, but she came back the next day. She took more time off when she was upset about breaking the contract for her adopted dog. I’ve read quite a bit of interesting talk about how poorly Ellen treats her staff, so I’m not surprised at her behavior. In fact, the more that I see the real Ellen, the more that I have no desire to watch public funny & nice Ellen. The contrast is just too great. The more I read about her, the more I believe that her tears for the dog were just a tantrum of spoiled rich person not getting their way. The dog was just the object that she wasn’t allowed to control.
A weird thing - I click on a “justify” button for each paragraph I type in my blog. When I started to write the first paragraph of this entry, I clicked on the “strike” button, which is next to it. I’ve never clicked on that button before. My fingers knew that they were going to be talking about the writers’ strike, I guess.
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So annoying about Ellen. She seems to market herself as a genuine, down-to-earth type person too, so it’s that much more frustrating that her off-camera self doesn’t seem to jive with her on-camera self.
jg on 11/16 at 07:52 AM
