Fred Vidal, PhD, December 23, 2008: "This video was recorded yesterday morning, Monday 22, and available for viewers at 10:18AM. At 6:28PM, I received the Email of Doug Allen, SAG National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator, to the Union Boards members (LA Times - Business, Tuesday) informing that the Vote process is delayed (of a couple of weeks). BACKGROUNDS ACTORS MUST APPRECIATE THAT DECISION, TAKE SERIOUSLY THE FACT THAT VOICE!! IS THEIR SUPPORTING PROGRAM AND CELEBRATE THAT FIRST VICTORY. We have now a HISTORIC CHANCE to make us appreciated better inside the Guild for the empowerment of our status and reputation to be a part of the risk of strike confirmation. IF I WAS A PRINCIPAL, I would already support Alan and Doug, being sure that the Producers who are our friends in the working Hollywood and sometimes actors too, will change their mind and accept the principles of solidarity, WIN-WIN and FAIR BUSINESS. Are we against ourselves? How many actors are producers too, including in the majors. ARE WE AGAINST OURSELVES?
ABOUT CORPORATION-MAJORS, THEY MUST UNDERSTAND THAT ACTORS ARE ALSO MOVIEGOERS, CLIENTS OF THEM FOR TV, DVD, VIDGAMES TOO (what about if we stop to buy their products??) AND RESPECT THE ONLY ONES WHO ARE ON THE SCREEN: US. We are not writers but actors, sensible and fragile sometimes, with the talent to persuade and to express ourselves in the media. We don't know enough maybe confidentiality!!... but we are fair guys, generous ones, always ready to help. This public debate is one of our best works to get the improvements we need. In front of a risk of a SAG strike in the middle of the historic economic crisis that strikes our Country, the United States, we must COMMUNICATE BETTER inside the Union WITH THE CELEBRITIES AND THE MASS OF THE DAILY WORKERS (REAL WORK ON THE SET) WHO ARE... THE BACKGROUND ACTORS FIRST (and not principal workers who are a minority). There is the problem that we are not RESIDUALS ORIENTED, our PROBLEMS are different. They must be understood better and SAG must include them in the STRIKE NEGOTIATIONS STRATEGY. VOICE!!, SAG Silent Actors Promotion Platform proposes a list of possible improvements FOR OUR SILENT WORKERS. I am sure that some of them, all of them, can be included in SAG OBJECTIVES. Our profession is the victim of a routine that makes SAG B Actors, kind of non-union guys on the sets (this is an evolution since 2003 when I began that is clear). IF SAG NOT ENOUGH RESPECTED BY PRODUCERS AND CRITICIZED BY CELEBRITIES, it's because our troops of workers (Extras) on the sets DON'T REPRESENT THE UNION WELL BECAUSE THEY CAN'T...
WHEN UNITED, OUR PROFESSION, THANKS TO ITS UNION, WILL GIVE, TO OUR SUFFERING COUNTRY, MORE AND MORE DREAM, HOPE AND TALENTED ART ON THE SCREENS (with no stress anymore) as it is our duty.
Anyway, Merry Christmas to everybody in America, from the boards of the majors to the background holding areas of the Hollywood Sets, and now we have the time to have fun, enjoying our Holiday Season and to communicate better and more, beginning January... and to prepare the STRIKE, IF NECESSARY.
Fred Vidal, PhD (12/23/08, 7:18AM PT)
PS: I will send my orientation letter to Doug Allen and Alan Rosenberg in the next few days.
I appreciated another email of our President asking for unity and fraternity, this sounds great, Alan.
Propositions of VOICE!! for Background Actors Empowerment are on www.fredvidaluniversity.com
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Rudolph Valentino was half French.:) I also wish you a merry Christmas.
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