 Jack Nicholson supports Screen Actors Guild's negotiating team |
26 Jun 08 |
From: cleveland.com
Jack Nicholson, Viggo Mortensen, Nick Nolte and other actors will support the Screen Actors Guild's negotiating team and call for a smaller union to return to the bargaining table in a new ad to run today, said a person familiar with the situation. The ad, to run in trade publications Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, contains names of more than 60 actors including Josh Brolin and Rosanna and Patricia Arquette, said the person, who was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity. The high-powered endorsement of the union's tactics comes days after Tom Hanks added his name to a petition calling on actors to endorse a deal reached by the smaller American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. The battle of lists puts a smaller group of guild-supporting stars like Martin Sheen and Holly Hunter against the AFTRA backers who signed on to an online petition led by Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey and 600 other actors. The three-year contracts of both unions, covering prime-time TV and movie productions, expire Monday. 
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