Superior Court Judge tells Rosenberg no deal! A monkey wrench SAG President Alan Rosenberg threw into pending SAG contract talks with producers was tossed back into his lap today by a Superior Court Judge. Alan Rosenberg (SAG Guild President) and Anne-Marie Johnson (Guild 1st Vice President) filed a lawsuit against SAG this past week, seeking to reinstate Doug Allen (who was relieved of his duties as the Union's Chief negotiator) and to reconstitute the Guild's former negotiating committee...Read Full Story
Hollywood's biggest actors union approved a new contract with entertainment industry producers, ending a bitter labor dispute that sparked fears of a devastating strike. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) said in a statement its members had voted 78 percent to 22 percent in favor of a two-year contract deal, which had been drawn up in April after closed door negotiations. SAG members had been working without a formal contract after failing to agree a new deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture...Read Full Story
SAG's Alan Rosenberg attempts to reinstate ousted executive director More turmoil over at the Screen Actors Guild: A meeting that was supposed to occur Feb. 3 between the union reps and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has been postponed in light of a legal manuever by SAG President Alan Rosenberg on Monday. Together with his vice president Anne-Marie Johnson, the two reportedly submitted a legal document to SAG that demonstrates their intent to file a lawsuit to...Read Full Story
"CSI" star Marg Helgenberger has filed for divorce from her husband, fellow actor and Screen Actors Guild President Alan Rosenberg. She filed her petition Tuesday in Los Angeles, citing irreconcilable differences. The couple got married in 1989 and have a son together. The 50-year-old Helgenberger plays Catherine Willows on CBS' highly rated drama, "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." She won a best supporting actress Emmy in 1990 for the series "China Beach." The 58-year-old Rosenberg was a...Read Full Story
The Screen Actors Guild has voted to oppose closing a motion picture home where many actors and others have spent their last years. By a slender margin, the SAG board voted Saturday to oppose closing the Motion Picture & Television Fund's long-term care facility in Woodland Hills. SAG has no formal say in the hospital's future but many SAG members financially support it and some actors have vigorously campaigned against what they view as the destruction of a legacy. The motion picture fund...Read Full Story
The pro-merger forces have contended that SAG and AFTRA will have more clout as a combined union -- a contention that been disputed on numerous occasions by Alan Rosenberg, who served two terms as SAG president from 2005 to 2009. He continues to insist ...
Waterfront Warrior’s co-chair Jerry Snell presented Allegria Hotel owner Alan Rosenberg with a certificate of recognition for his part in providing accommodations to the soldiers during LBWW events. Several wounded service men from Walter Reed were on ...
But former SAG President Alan Rosenberg, a longtime critic of AFTRA, said the merger plan would weaken the position of all performers. "There is no way this is going to be good for actors," he said. "The intention is not to be strong in negotiations.
Although expensive for all concerned, internecine SAG litigation would not be unprecedented: in 2009, then guild president Alan Rosenberg and three board members including Johnson sued the union in an attempt to stymie the newly-elected pro-merger majority.
The series gleams with HBO handsomeness. It stars Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte (and Dennis Farina and Joan Allen: the cast is so impressive that I giggled when Alan Rosenberg showed up). And yet I couldn’t help feeling that I was missing something.
Alan Rosenberg (born October 4 , 1951 ) is an American actor of both stage and screen, and current president of the Screen Actors Guild , the principal motion picture industry on ...
Screen Actors Guild President Alan Rosenberg has expressed frustration over dissension within his union over bargaining strategy with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. In an interview with Broadcasting & Cable, Rosenberg said ...