Yes, the media coverage is why his popularity is soaring, but every day that his popularity soars is a nail in the coffin of the Conservative movement. Ted Cruz, a Conservative’s wet dream, should have won South Carolina by 50% points. He got trounced, TROUNCED, by Donald Trump, a basically non religious, not…

In NBC’s defense, we’ve never witnessed anything as bizarre as Trump in an election cycle, ever. This guy is singlehandedly destroying the Republican party in a way no one on the left has been able to do in half a century. The coverage of Trump is not really about Trump per se, but how this guy has managed to…

Yes, which is exactly why there is no way on earth to guarantee that if George Clooney gets $50 million for a film, his love interest will also get $50 million, rather than $10 million, or $25 million.

The SAG is worth the weight of the paper it’s written on, yes.

No. SAG does not guarantee salary or work, which 99% of other unions do. SAG is completely powerless when it comes to equal pay among actors. For example, even if Patricia Arquette finally negotiated equal pay for A list actresses, there’s no power on earth that could force any producer or director to hire her or…

Without a salary cap this would never, ever work, as executives would simply stop hiring A list actresses in favor of new, unknown ones. Given the dynamics of how business is done and pay is negotiated in entertainment, there’s absolutely no way to equalize pay short of unionization plus a pay cut.

Yes and no. In 99% of unions, you’re guaranteed work, a pay scale, and you cannot be terminated without due process. The SAG is a union will protect actors from working under really bad conditions, but not much else.

The only way to implement an equal pay policy- and an equal racial representation policy- among actors in Hollywood- an international industry where each actor is a free agent free to negotiate his/her own pay- is unionization. Would these two and other actors be willing to join the Film Workers Union and take a…

I wonder if Patricia Arquette would be willing to form a union with other A list actors and included electricians, grips, lighting techs and everyone else in the industry to refuse to work until pay between men and women is the same, with top salaries not to exceed 10x the salaries of the lowest paid worker? Meaning,…

Yeah, that was off-the-charts nuts.