Actually, less walking this time. There were so many writers turning out to picket the Viacom building yesterday that there was a good deal of standing around.
More memebers of the Screen Actors Guild have started showing up to join in the march. Met Michael Badalucco, who played Jimmy the Grunt on “The Practice,” who was always one of my favorite characters on that series. Sweet guy; introduced himself to me as “Mike.” Came across much like his TV persona.
Probably the high point was that I spent a good deal of time in the line standing behind Alan Zweibel, one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live. He used to write “Weekend Update,” and he was spending most of his time talking shop and trading stories with the writer for SNL who is *currently* writing Update for SNL. There was literally a generation of time between the two writers, but I was fascinated by all the common ground between the two of them. And when I asked them (I apologized for overhearing, explaining that I had only done so because I was intentionally eavesdropping) they agreed that, yeah, Doctor Evil really does sound like Lorne Michaels.
It’s been a fascinating experience thus far. I just hope/wish we’re accomplishing something.
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