WGA Strike: The Directors Guild of America Makes a Deal

Published: January 18, 2008, 6:15 am

Joss Whedon & Jaime Paglia. Steps of Harvard Lampoon, Cambridge, MA. Dec, 2007.photo Brad Searles. Click for LARGE image.A Deal is Stuck. Did the Directors Sell Out?The DGA has a history of being rolled.The infamous DVD rate. The Directors Guild fell for that bullshit.They've been on strike precisely once. For five minutes.Yeah, they're tough guys, those directors. Balls of, um, well, actually, they pretty much have no balls. They tend to roll over pretty easily.But this time, even the DGA had to know they had leverage, what with the writers out on strike since November, the Golden Globes reduced to a fracking news show that cost NBC millions, the Oscars breathing down everyone's neck, not to mention the Upfronts with $25 Billion Fucking Dollars and the whole 2008 season on the line, plus, oh yeah, the ACTORS set to strike in June if this isn't settled by then.A blind man whose dog is deaf with a busted cane would have leverage.The DGA negoiations took longer than anyone

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