Ramping up its strike authorization campaign, the Screen Actors Guild has scheduled a third town hall meeting Dec. 17 at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel — aiming to assure members that they won’t be turned away.
And SAG president Alan Rosenberg has moved to reassure the biz that leaders view a strike as a last resort amid the nation’s financial crisis.
SAG held its first town hall meeting Monday night at the Harmony Gold and will stage a second confab Monday in New York. The event at the Harmony Gold drew an enthusiastic capacity crowd of 450; the ballroom booked at the Hollywood Renaissance has a capacity of 600.
SAG leaders have insisted they need the strike authorization — which requires 75 percent of those voting to approve — in order to force the studios to resume contract talks. The last round of talks cratered on Nov. 22 amid a blizzard of accusations after a federal mediator was unable to bring the two sides back to the table.
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