December 12, 2008
…ely. Let’s get back to the point. As I was sitting at this ACLU propaganda filled banquet, I began to peruse the room. It was filled with Corporate Leaders, Attorneys, and other high net worth individuals. A large portion was entertainment industry as one of the honorees was the head of Universal Pictures. This group, on the whole, was the elite of Southern California society. On Tuesday, I attended another mostly entertainment industry event. Th…
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November 14, 2011
… being the case, wouldn’t it be safe to presume that material about Obama would have twice as large of an audience and double the impact than material about George W. Bush? It stands to reason. But missing from the world of entertainment is the lampooning of Barack Obama. Why? Don’t we remember George W. Bush being the subject of Jay Leno, David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel’s jokes on a nightly basis? Wasn’t George W. Bush portrayed by Will Fer…
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December 10, 2009
Here is an article I wrote about one year ago, that is just as true today as it was when I originally wrote it. It directly involves the entertainment industry and contains information that everyone in the acting profession should be aware of. As we all know, the American economy is currently battling double digit unemployment. The current unemployment rate is 10% and most major economists believe it will go higher. The Screen Actor’s Guild…
Tags: Economy, Entertainment, Entertainment Industry, International, Labor Unions, SAG, unions
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January 21, 2012
… seemed on the superficial level to offer continuity, it was actually an ideological reversal, back to the Liberal wing of the Republican Party. Though he lambasted his opponent Michael Dukakis, tarring him with the “Liberal” label, which Reaganism had turned into a dirty word, Bush himself was every bit a Progressive. His admitted trouble with “the vision thing” prevented him from continuing with Reagan’s unfinished work: shrinking government, e…
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October 27, 2009
… cases for more than a year and paying 0% interest. I wonder what they do with the money they earn? Lastly, the SAG arbitration system must be discussed. Talk about an uneven playing field! Prior to producing films, I was an entertainment attorney. In all, I have been in the business for 25 years give or take. During that time, I have not seen one SAG arbitration ruled in favor of the producer. In fact, some arbitrators on the SAG list have neve…
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July 15, 2009
… it even gets to the Senate. So, get your pens out and start writing your Congressmen again. If enough people complain about this crap going on in Congress, it might actually stop. As an aside, I had lunch today with a fellow entertainment industry Republican, Michael Mandaville, and he had an interesting analysis of this health care bill. In the movie industry, people are hired usually for short periods of time during the course of a production …
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October 25, 2009
Frank DeMartini Frank DeMartini (Producer) began his entertainment career 20 years ago as an entertainment attorney. Soon he became a specialist in representing not only the above-the-line elements but also all aspects of motion picture and TV production from development through financing and distribution. His film credits include producer on the independent feature “Motel Blue” (1997) starring Sean Young and Robert Vaughn, “Crocodile” (2001) …
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January 24, 2010
…work done years ago, every time he makes a dime? The union people are now going to say that I am typical management and do not care about the working man. They will say that residuals are cheap. If the movie is made with all entertainment unions, the total cost of residuals is less than 10% of the total income. But, if you are only making a 25% return on your money, the residuals eat up approximately 10% of that return, leaving you with only a 1…
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October 30, 2011
… of these circumstances, the use of the word hero is trivialized. A deeper problem is that ides of myth, legend and story hold a society’s culture together. The concept of the hero is central to these. By misapplying the hero label and refraining from using it when needed takes our culture in the wrong direction. I hope we can recover the sense of propriety about who we call a hero and what they did to be considered brave before it’s too late. A …
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November 30, 2011
…of the Obama Coalition”, Thomas Edsall, by pushing “takers” into a non-working, entitlement, nanny state, socialistic philosophical ideology. Republicanism is not lost but it is certainly a candidate for a “Progressive Lite” label….or what as “Congress is Useless” all about? http://www.hollywoodrepublican.net/2011/11/congress-is-useless/ And all that is supported in academia today is under the myth of “academic freedom”. Collectivism and totalit…
Tags: First Amendment, Religion, Separation of Church and State
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