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Encyclopedia: Writers Guild of America

The Writers Guild of America is a term often referring to the joint efforts of the Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West. Jointly, the two guilds act as the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and television industries in the United States.

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Dennis Miller Live

was also nominated six times for the Writers' Guild of America Award for "Best Writing For A Comedy/Variety Series", and won three of those times. The show was directed by Debbie Palacio for most of its run, and head writers were first Jeff Cesario and then Eddie Feldmann. Other writers included JosÃ...

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George Kirgo

was president of the Writers Guild of America West from 1987 to 1991. He presided over the union... George Kirgo (March 26, 1926-August 22, 2004) was a US television and film writer. A screenwriter since 1954, his many credits include episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Love, American Style...

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Susan Howard

portraying the fist female Klingon. Howard is also a screen writer and member of the Writers Guild of America. Howard was born and raised in Marshall, Texas, where she was recognized for acting talent..., writer, and political activist; best known for portraying the character Donna Culver Krebbs on the...

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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John Patrick

); Les Girls (1957), earning him an award from the Writers Guild of America; Some Came Running (1958... of the British Army fighting World War II. He served with Montgomery's Eighth Army in Egypt and... but it was his 1953 stage adaptation of Vern J. Sneider's novel The Teahouse of the August Moon that...

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Screenwriter

such as the Writers Guild of America. Some notable screenwriters: Alan Ball E. B. Borgman Leigh... writers make very profitable careers out of the script doctoring food chain, being the ninth or...Screenwriters , or script writers , are authors who write the screenplays from which movies are...

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Aaron Sorkin

Writers Guild of America Awards. Sorkin is unique among television producers for writing nearly... working in film and television. He graduated from Syracuse University with a bachelor of Fine Arts... written for The American President , a 1995 feature starring Michael Douglas as the President of the...

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Dalton Trumbo

thereafter on all subsequent scripts, and he was reinstated as a member of the Writers Guild of... who was probably the most talented member of the Hollywood Ten, one of a group who refused to testify... only convicted of contempt of Congress, he was blacklisted and in 1950 spent 11 months in prison...

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The Starlost

in his writers' contract to force the producers to use his alternate registered writer's name of... his contract, so his name remained on the credits. On 31 March, 1974, Ellison received a Writers Guild of America award for Best Original Screenplay for the original script. A novelisation of this...

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