It's official.

Does it affect interviews? Harwood is suppose to be one of the people at Diving Bell and Butterfly press day next week. I look forward to hear him talking about adapting the book. (I also look forward to sitting at a table with Max von Sydow. [feel free to envy me])

Interesting piece in L.A. Times opinion section today that goes back to the bizarre history of making studios authors of screenplays and the writers providing a service, so that it is the studios that hold the copyright, unlike what writers have with books or plays.

A little sidebar on writers: It was nice this week to do a press day that included the screenwriter (Ronald Harwood for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly). I'll take interviews with screenwriters over most of the actors that come to press days.

KCRW's The Business aired a show with a couple former TV execs on what this will mean for TV

Independent producers say the issue isn't with "producers," it's with networks and studios.

Speechless - a collection of videos with some pretty good actors showing life without writers. Think Woody Allen could be funny just drinking a cup of tea, check out episode 20. Think you'd be willing to watch Patricia Clarkson or Amy Ryan reading the phone book, check episode 16. Want to see what movies we'll get if writers stay out, episode 18.

LA Times columnist Al Martinez (who is a WGA member) writes about screening movies during the strike.