JOE BOLOGNA - CHERNIN PRODUCERS WON'T SWEETEN DEAL OFFERED TO SAG

CHERNIN PRODUCERS WON'T SWEETEN DEAL OFFERED TO SAG

News Corp COO Peter Chernin, who is often credited with fathering the compromise that ended the writers' strike, says that the current impasse with the Screen Actors Guild is "a source of enormous frustration" for him and fellow media executives. Appearing on the Charlie Rose interview show on PBS, Chernin insisted that the studios are adamant against giving SAG a better deal than they negotiated with the Writers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. "Nor do the difficult economic times justify a better deal for anyone else. It's hard for me to understand why a deal that's good enough for key, key creative partners -- the writers, the directors and the 40 percent of the actors represented by AFTRA -- isn't good enough for SAG." Meanwhile, Membership First, the group that currently controls SAG unveiled the list of 33 candidates for its board Tuesday, the best known of whom are JoBeth Williams, Joe Bologna, Scott Wilson, Keith Carradine and Joely Fisher.

06/08/2008