I would like to take this moment to give some perspective on the current SAG negotiations. The media always seems to “eat up” the controversy and in-fighting at SAG. So knock it off! “We all have to stand together or divided we fall!” After attending the Los Angeles Town Hall meeting on May 19th, I feel that we have the smartest and best of people working on our behalf and our guild is finally unified! Let’s remain unified and secure our future…
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Twenty years ago an actor received his first job on television. His “one line” wasn’t even a complete sentence; it was a hyphenate, just “Seventy-twenty-one.”
The casting director asked him if he would accept what was pretty much the minimum for the show, $600 for the day. Although 20 years ago SAG minimum was just around $350 at the time, it was fairly standard to pay far above that, even to an inexperienced day player at the time.