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· Not to be outdone by SNL colleague Fred “Roger Trevanti” Armisen’s strike video, Will Forte and Kristen Wiig demonstrate the many exciting, non-writing uses for the pencils WGA members put down 17 days ago.
Those strike-related ads in the trades just keep getting nastier and more confrontational, don’t they?
We would’ve accepted “because that’s what eventually happens when you give a trampy 17-year-old millions of dollars” as a reason for why Britney Spears’ life has become such a mess, but Dr. Drew has a more detailed theory.
· Ernest Borgnine: still alive. Who knew? It’s an early Christmas miracle!
Because there’s no such animal as the “holiday weekend” in the Gawker Media zoo, we’ll be here on Friday morning for a half-day of posting before indulging our suicidal impulse to join the Black Friday mob at the Beverly Center, where we will likely die in the mindless pursuit of post-Thanksgiving bargains. Happy Turkey Day, friends!

Johnny Depp Becomes The Strike’s Latest Victim [Trade Roundup]

·The strike indefinitely delays two more star-studded productions, with Johnny Depp’s Shantaram and Nine, Chicago director Rob Marshall’s next musical (with Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz), having their planned early-2008 start dates postponed. [Variety]
The WGA agrees not to picket Paramount on December 1st, answering Elizabeth Taylor’s appeal not to interfere with her benefit performance of “Love Letters” with all their loud chanting and potentially legend-upstaging strike-dancing. [Variety]
Meanwhile, CBS News employees have overwhelmingly authorized a strike of their own, allowing the WGA to fight a two-front war if it so chooses. [Variety]

· ABC rides the Dancing with the Stars semifinals to Monday night Nielsen victory, crushing the scripted series that will soon run out of fresh episodes and become unable to offer even token resistence to bad reality TV programming. [THR]
· Longtime Fox News anchor Shepherd Smith resigns with the network for a reported $7-8 million per conservative-pandering year. [Variety]

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CAA’s Solidarity March Snacks Underwhelm Churro-Craving Picketers [Hollywood Snackwatch]

[Note: UPDATE after the jump!] In what represents a clear snacking downgrade from the delicious, piping hot churros that had previously won CAA near-universal acclaim from the striking-writer community, the evil agenting monolith’s conspicuously overdressed, munchie-proferring emissaries were spotted at this afternoon’s Hollywood Blvd. Solidarity March distributing–audible gasp!–scones.

Though the operative who snapped the attached photo described the pastries as”succulent” and “baby-laced,” we’re still disappointed by the effort, one that seems to indicate that the agency is already half-assing its picketer-nourishing efforts; not only does the choice of food itself feel uninspired, but the assistant was carrying the scones on a ceramic tray, demonstrating that partner Bryan Lourd no longer cares enough to send his troops out with his best sterling silver serving platters. Snack Grade: C-

UPDATE: Claims another reader, defending CAA’s honor: “Those scones were actually really very tasty!” Photographic support for his position is provided:

• Previously: Hollywood Snackwatch: CAA’s Delicious Churros

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