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The temporary restraining order that dissolved the trusteeship of Nabet-cwa Local 41 has been converted to a preliminary injunction, meaning that the local’s elected officers will remain on the job until a trial is held to determine whether the trusteeship was valid. In the meantime, U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feinerman, who determined in his Tro that the trusteeship was “invalid,” has referred the case to a Magistrate Judge for a settlement conference.

A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order dissolving the trusteeship of Nabet-cwa Local 41, which represents broadcast technicians at ABC, NBC, Telemundo, Univision and ESPN in Chicago.

The trusteeship had been imposed by Nabet-cwa on Sept. 22, six months after Raza Siddiqui was elected president of Local 41. In the local’s March elections, Siddiqui and his entire slate of running mates overwhelmingly defeated the local’s prior leadership, headed by former president Chris Willadsen and former treasurer Patrick Keating,...

Just about everybody loves gossip. It can make you make you smile, it can hurt, it can destroy and yes, even cause death. That is probably why Scandal (TV) is a success. Politics, scandal, mystery, intrigue, murder and forbidden love are all included in this fast paced series. Beautiful people combined with good writing has melded into a show that has kept viewers interested. Created by Shonda Rhimes, Scandal (TV) is about an intelligent young woman Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), a former White House Communications Director for the President, who wants to make a change in her life. Olivia starts her own crisis management firm, Pope and Associates. Olivia is a woman of character with strong beliefs and can annihilate a person with her whip hard intellect, but can also show compassion. She's a woman deeply in love, but this must be hidden and locked inside of her. She knows...

Just about everybody loves gossip. It can make you make you smile, it can hurt, it can destroy and yes, even cause death. That is probably why Scandal (TV) is a success. Politics, scandal, mystery, intrigue, murder and forbidden love are all included in this fast paced series. Beautiful people combined with good writing has melded into a show that has kept viewers interested. Created by Shonda Rhimes, Scandal (TV) is about an intelligent young woman Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), a former White House Communications Director for the President, who wants to make a change in her life. Olivia starts her own crisis management firm, Pope and Associates. Olivia is a woman of character with strong beliefs and can annihilate a person with her whip hard intellect, but can also show compassion. She's a woman deeply in love, but this must be hidden and locked inside of her. She knows...

Erich von Stroheim, Gloria Swanson in Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd. Gloria Swanson's life and career, and camera movement in classic Hollywood cinema will be the topics explored by Cari Beauchamp and Patrick Keating, respectively, both of whom have been named Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy’s Institutional Grants Committee selected Beauchamp and Keating on the basis of their manuscript proposals. Each will receive $25,000 from the Academy to aid in the research and writing of their projects. From the Academy's press release: Beauchamp, an independent film historian and author of five previous books, will research and write the first comprehensive biography of Gloria Swanson (1899–1983) whose iconic career spanned from silent films to television and included her Oscar®-nominated performance as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd. The book will explore the actress and producer’s influence on film production and the culture at large,...

One of the reasons the Academy is so eager to get good ratings at the Oscars is that the ad revenue that they raise that night funds all their ongoing activity, from exhibitions and programming to the Academy Library. They also back film scholarship and the high-profile Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship competition, which is now accepting entries for 2011. The Academy will award up to five $30,000 fellowships in November. Last year's competition drew 6,304 entries; since 1985, the Academy has awarded 118 fellowships, which function as a gateway to the industry. Congrats to Cari Beauchamp and Patrick Keating, who have been named Academy Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Historian and author Beauchamp writes about Hollywood for Vanity Fair (I still ...

Beverly Hills, CA . The life and career of silent film star Gloria Swanson and camera movement in classic Hollywood cinema will be the topics explored by Cari Beauchamp and Patrick Keating, respectively, who have been named Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The Academy.s Institutional Grants Committee selected the pair for the honor on the basis of their manuscript proposals. Each will receive $25,000 from the Academy to aid in the research and writing of their projects.

Beauchamp, an independent film historian and author of five previous books, will research and write the first comprehensive biography of Gloria Swanson (1899.1983) whose iconic career spanned from silent films to television and included her Oscar®-nominated performance as Norma Desmond in .Sunset Blvd.. The book will explore the actress and producer.s influence on film production and the culture at large, as well as her off-camera life...