"After I left here, why did you come after me?"
"You know why."
"Say it. I need you to."
"You're the love of my life. I couldn't just let you go. It felt like my heart ripped itself out of my chest and walked out the door."
03.02.24 Laurie Anderson performs Lou Reed's Hudson River Wind Meditations with Stewart Hurwood and Sarth Calhoun on the occasion of Lou's 82nd birthday. Stewart is manipulation Lou's guitars and amps. At Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center.
AMC Networks has signed an Interim Agreement with SAG-AFTRA to resume production on a select few shows which includes INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE and THE WALKING DEAD spin-offs DARYL DIXON
and THE WALKING DEAD: THE ONES WHO LIVE starring TWD alums Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira.
What signing to the Interim Agreement means is that these productions have agreed to the terms that SAG-AFTRA is seeking in negotiations. When SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP agree to a new contract (whenever that may be), if the terms of the new agreement are more favourable than what is in the interim agreement, that finalized agreement with the AMPTP will supersede the interim agreement and the talent will get whatever that contract reflects.
I'm of two minds on Interim Agreements. On one hand, it gets people back to work so that they can have income and that's great. On the other, these agreements give way to content which will eventually end up an AMPTP repped platform so they are passing on the opportunity to starve the studios of content which could show the studios that they cannot survive without the contributions of writers and actors. If streamers and networks saw their ratings and/or subscriber base go into freefall due to lack of content, that would hopefully make them realize how they need to do right by the affected.
And SAG-AFTRA realized that this is a side-effect, so they revamped their restrictions and now they won't grant Interim Agreeemnts to WGA projects so as to not stymy their strike.
So...glad these shows have made a way back, but I am hoping that a resolution is near so that these Interim Agreements won't create a further schism amongst the membership.