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Screen Actors Guild Awards go (mostly) to season favorites

A low-key event by design, the Screen Actors Guild Awards benefit from a narrow scope—it is for actors, by actors—and an intimacy that allows each winner to thank the crowd in a way that seems at least partly sincere. The annual ceremony, held last night and aired live on both TNT and TBS, had the added benefit of unspoken drama always only a whisper away, even if none of the winners were exactly a surprise....  read more

Screen Actors Guild rejects contract offer

The Screen Actors Guild has been in negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, those same folks who dealt with the Writers Guild at the end of last year and beginning of this one, since April 15. This finally came to a head on Thursday when, after a five-hour meeting, the studios asked that its final offer be put to a vote by the guild. Instead, the Guild refused to relay the offer outright, putting negotiations in an odd standstill and allowing both sides to blame each other, with the AMPTP saying its offer was rejected and...  read more