The royal family marked Christmas Day by attending the traditional festive church service on the King’s Sandringham estate.
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Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Writers returned to work two months ago, and the SAG-AFTRA strike has been over for nearly a month. Production has restarted but won’t be back to full strength until mid-January. But even as Hollywood tries to return to normal, dark clouds are forming on the horizon.
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees contract expires on July 31, as does the Basic Crafts contract, which covers the Teamsters. In a period of rising union militancy across industries, it’s not clear whether the Hollywood studios have achieved lasting labor peace or just a temporary truce. “We’re going to be demanding things we believe members deserve for the work they do,” says Lindsay Dougherty, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 399.
“We have to fix this stuff. Our members make Hollywood move.” Both the studios and the below-the-line workforce — camera operators, lighting technicians, makeup artists and so on — have taken a hit in 2023. That figures to be a factor on both sides heading into the 2024 negotiations.
How much more pain can they endure? “We were so financially devastated,” says Barry Caldwell, a veteran script supervisor. “My fear is we won’t have the resolve nor the financial ability to strike.” Caldwell last worked on “The Lincoln Lawyer,” which wrapped in March. Since then, he’s chewed through his savings, fallen behind on bills and had to withdraw 20% from his retirement account.
His family got by on disability checks and the proceeds from the sale of property that he and his siblings inherited from his mother. His retirement savings were depleted during the pandemic, when the motion picture retirement plan allowed members to take out 20% in “hardship” withdrawals. “I’m eight years
.The royal family marked Christmas Day by attending the traditional festive church service on the King’s Sandringham estate.
Far from the world of royal banquets and formal regal traditions, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex prefer a more low-key Christmas these days. Since moving to balmy Montecito in California in March 2020, Harry, Meghan and their two children Prince Archie, four, and Princess Lilibet, two, have opted for relaxed festive celebrations on their luxury five-acre estate. “We’re probably talking barbecues and walks on the beach for the Sussexes rather than obligatory black-tie dinners and pheasant shoots at Sandringham,” says royal expert Duncan Larcombe.
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Billie Eilish starred alongside Kate McKinnon in a Christmas Saturday Night Live sketch this weekend about a cat adoption campaign.The pop star and SNL alum played cat ladies at the ‘Whiskers R We’ pet store for a pun-filled sketch on Saturday (December 16), which saw them show off cats available for adoption during their “Holiday Cat-tacular”.The pair barely kept it together as Barbara DeDrew (McKinnon) and intern Paw-bree Hep-Purrn (Eilish) introduced cats with names like Cindy Claw-ford and Furr-ell Williams.Musical guest Eilish also appeared in another pre-recorded skit on the episode, the second being an acoustic song about a group of women (McKinnon, Eilish, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Paula Pell) working on a tampon farm.Check out both of the sketches below.Elsewhere on Saturday’s episode, Eilish performed her Barbie soundtrack hit ‘What Was I Made For’ and a stripped-back rendition of Frank Sinatra‘s ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’.The singer has previously appeared as a guest on SNL, performing a memorable rotating rendition of ‘Bad Guy’ in 2019, followed by a 2021 visit to play ‘Male Fantasy’ and ‘Happier Than Ever’ from her second album.In other news from the ‘Ocean Eyes’ singer, Eilish recently announced her third album is nearly done.This weekend’s episode of SNL also featured an ABBA spoof –starring McKinnon, Wiig, Rudolph and current cast member Bowen Yang – during which they posed as the Swedish pop legends in a skit about the band promoting a holiday album.Longtime SNL performer McKinnon announced she was leaving the show last year after a decade, later sharing that she “felt like it was time”.Meanwhile, Jacob Elordi and Reneé Rapp have been announced for the first Saturday Night Live of
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