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Writers Offer To Give NBC's Ben Silverman The Prom Of His Dreams [More Notes From Hollywood High]
Gawker: defamer —
... who forced the cancellation of the Enchantment Under the Hollywood Sea Dance he'd been looking forward to since last semester, some WGA members instead have generously decided to give the senior class co-chairman the party he so badly wanted to keep alive. Next Thursday, United Hollywood and ...
Writers Strike Getting Juvenile: NBC Honcho Tries To "Carrie" Writers
TV with MeeVee —
... No wonder first-season NBC boss Ben Silverman is pissed. But Monday he managed to piss off the entire writers union in unusually personal fashion by telling E! that the WGA getting the Globes canceled was like "like the nerdiest, ugliest, meanest kids in the high school are trying to cancel the prom. But NBC wants to try to keep that prom alive." Silverman, of course, clearly considering himself the handsome young jock in this scenario.
The strikers' United Hollywood countered with the lovely image at right and this picket-line invitation: ...
Mean, Ugly Writers Hit Back at Ben Silverman
Vulture —
... Photo: UnitedHollywood.com
Prom Still On: Yesterday, NBC chairman Ben Silverman likened the WGA's denial of a waiver for the Golden Globes to "the nerdiest, ugliest, meanest kids in the high school … trying to cancel the prom." ...
WGA Strike News
TV Bloggin —
... Ben Silverman (NBC Co-Chief) spoke so thoughtfully about the strike by referring to the striking writer’s blocking of the Golden Globes in this manner: “Sadly, it feels like the nerdiest, ugliest, meanest kids in the high school are trying to cancel the prom. But NBC wants to try to keep that prom alive.” Some answered back. ...
Show Your Fighting Cocks Pride At The Benjamin Silverman High Winter Prom [Strike Fashionwatch]
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... who doesn't have a pumpkin tuxedo in the closet that he can break out for the dance. (Those who plan on showing their Fighting Cocks pride will be happy to know their purchase benefits the Writers Guild Foundation Industry Support Fund.) ...
It's Pop Culture Prom Week
BuzzSugar —
... on the air, saying: "Sadly, it feels like the nerdiest, ugliest, meanest kids in the high school are trying to cancel the prom. But NBC wants to try to keep that prom alive." The ugly, mean, nerdy writers then retaliated by promising to throw Silverman the prom of his dreams outside NBC next week. ...
Glowy Box on the Scene: Daily Show and Colbert Report Writers Stage Mock Debate on the Strike
Glowy Box: Basking in Television's Friendly Radiation —
... and reasonable-esque," and their offer to the WGA as "nothing-adjacent." Seriously, those Colbert guys are hysterical . Question and Answer Period : The WGA side presented many legitimately persuasive arguments and statistics before asking AMPTP how much money they made off of the internet last year. Answer: "I don't recall" (cue the Alberto Gonzales jokes). AMPTP also came up with this persuasive gem: "The internet is a baby, and babies don't make money." After some quality Ben Silverman nerds/prom jokes, AMPTP got a chance to make their main point about unions: "The ...
