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Hollywood awards insiders will be paying close attention to the guests appearing on talk shows hosted by Jay Leno, Craig Ferguson, Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel and David Letterman this week.
Not because they're bored -- because they want to see which award-aspiring actors are willing to risk their reputations, careers and, possibly, their immortal souls by going on as guests and making a non-supportive union statement.
"Ellen Page is due to go on Letterman Thursday night," one awards-season insider told me. "That's a very big statement to make. I hope she's comfortable with that decision, because none of my talent are. And they've all been asked to be guests."
Fox Searchlight, distributor of "Juno," confirmed that Page is set to appear right after Bill Maher. Although Letterman's production company reached an individual agreement with the writers guild, many still question WGA's tactics of negotiating with some interested parties and not others.
Predictions are that this awards season is going to be much more low-key than years past. For one thing, word is the Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild are already starting their own union negotiations over some of the same issues that have caused the extended writers strike.
United, they stand. Divided? Well, it ain't pretty.
Photo credit: Ellen Page, Globe-nominated star of "Juno," is set to appear Thursday night on Letterman's show.
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so now anyone that goes on a talk so doesn't support the union? when will this crap end? END THE STRIKE ALREADY.
Well, going on Letterman and Ferguson is quite a different statement than Leno, that ABC show, Conan, et al.
And for Ellen Page, I will have a huge problem is anybody has a problem with her. Why should her first major moment in the spotlight due to Juno be held hostage by the writers' strike? If they cannot understand that, they don't deserve the right to strike.
Wait, I thought that Worldwide Pants made its own deal with the WGA which pretty much gave them what they wanted so Letterman and Craig Ferguson are OK. I could see how could be seen as anti-wrtiers to appear on Leno or Conan O'Brien or Jimmy Kimmel, but an appearance on Letterman is, if anything, pro-writers as he not only gave the writers what they were demanding, but also his writers are employed and getting paid again.
Strike or no strike, actors still have to pimp their films. It'll be interesting to see how much of an affect the strike ultimately has.
What a joker! Does the author of that comment below really think that he/she is really Michael Caine? LMFAO!