Posts by nzlemming
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Something that has been bothering me without me realising it:
Why is Robyn Malcolm being a spokesperson for Equity? She's not on the committee, according to their website (or is that more administrative oversight) but I may have missed an election. I noted that several media bodies are referring to her as an "Equity Committee member" but I can't find any evidence of that. Can anyone oblige?
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@Jeremy
There's also a bunch of elves and a skin-changing bearAnd eagles. Mustn't forget the eagles. (Speaking roles, you know)
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It's supposed to be a benefit of membership.
Sorry? The defacto 'rules of engagement' for an industry is a "membership benefit" for one side of the industry? And they wonder why actors complain???
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I wonder how many actors have actually READ the Pink Book - I think they'll find the recommended guidelines for contracting performers are very similar to the things they think they're fighting for
Well, they could, if SPADA didn't make you pay $250 to join, in order to read it...
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I can't believe how badly MEAA/Equity have fucked this whole process. I've been a supporter of unions all my life - member, branch chairman, delegate etc - but this action has either been badly miscalculated or deliberately manipulated and I'm really not sure which.
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Hmmm, a 5 hour commercial break. I think we've broken Craig.
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Simon is right. Legal Deposit is not the same thing as a living archive. Not dissing the Natlib people - they have a lot of different (and competing) objectives. Their role is to protect what they have and receive, but not to curate it. There's nothing in Legal Deposit about the masters, only material that is published. And they don't collect and present the context for the material that they do have.
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Even lightweight analysis would be better than the regurgitated press releases that pass for news reporting.
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Sounds like his name was a bit of a mouthful...
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NZ has a small popualtion, one that doesn't buy too many books, and quite simply, is often not interested in buying NZ books (particularly fiction (or anything that's not a slow cooker cookbook)).
THIS.