UPDATED, 5:56 PM: There’s no reason why writers can’t have a little fun while hitting the picket lines, right?
Protesting over past and future lost wages is serious business, but leave it to Hollywood scribes to find the levity in the most dire of situations. Besides trying to keep spirits up by recommending restaurants that are offering WGA discounts and pointing how a porta-potty is now available on at least one picket line, the writers are also finding clever ways to make their picket signs more than just, well, plain old picket signs.
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“Paulina Porizkova is dating a writer. We can do anything!” read one.
That got an immediate retweet by the former supermodel herself, who replied, “whoever wrote this, please know you made my day, and I stand behind writers in every way — both metaphorically and physically.”
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“Take me down to Universal City where the pay is bad & residuals shitty,” read another.
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“Roz Doyle was union,” said another (a reference to Peri Gilpin’s character in Frasier).
Here’s the latest sampling:
https://twitter.com/tylermccsays/status/1653501357524127744?s=46&t=4Er_KO7-o2lgBc-NPokpJw
https://twitter.com/UnauthorizedCBD/status/1653240201442099200?s=20
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