On a day almost, almost like today, July 21st instead of July 13th, An actor strike began in 1980 that put Hollywood on hold for three long months and three days.. Convened by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and organizations that have been merged since 2012 by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (or AFTRA), SAG-AFTRA is now preparing to join the writers’ strike that began more than two months ago. .
Demands in 1980 were not much different from 2023: In addition to demanding some of the benefits from videotape broadcasts and pay television that emerged at the time, the unions sought improvement in their members’ salary conditions (notably 35%)..
During the period of the uprising, film and television production came to an almost complete halt. Among the affected films ‘How to kill your boss’Portrait of office life with Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton or ‘The false eye’thriller starring William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver respectively as the humble doorman and the beautiful reporter who tricks him with a special trick to approach him. Tom Selleck I wanted to stand out with “Magnum” (After he had to give up Indiana Jones himself), but the start of filming for the show was halted by a strike and the actor had to work as a handyman to pay the rent of his tiny house in Hawaii.
Boycott the Emmy Awards
On the other hand, a symbolic event lost all its brilliance. The Emmys ceremony on September 7 was boycotted by the syndicates, causing TV stars to blatantly disappear from the show. Only one of the 52 nominated translators took part in the event: Powers Cabinet, perhaps because she knew she would win for her lead role in a CBS miniseries about Reverend Jim Jones and the mass suicide of 900 people in Guyana. Boothes can be defined as social suicide. “[Venir aquí] It’s the bravest or stupidest thing I’ve ever had to do in my entire career,” he said in his acceptance speech.
One of the winners of all this, curiously, became the astronomer. Carl Sagan: Your training program ‘Cosmos’ aired in the United States during the strikeIt wouldn’t have had the same audience success with new fiction titles at a time of greater competition and so many repetitions.
Viewers were left wondering who shot JR Ewing, for example (larry haggman) in ‘Dallas. Scheduled dates for the fall premiere season, which was then the most important season of the year, have been completely turned upside down, and the author of the shoot, Kristin Shepard (mary crosby), JR’s girlfriend and sister-in-law