THB #353: Strikes Two!

The industry has been on double strike, as of the afternoon of the day I left for vacation. This is a 2-edged sword for me. Aside from some weird wrestling on Twitter, I have been observing and not insta-reacting. But I have been frustrated with my lack of clarity, publicly and privately, in the midst of this moment in industry history. But more than enough about me…

Both unions are suffering from a not-atypical problem in the marketing of television and movies… the thing that effectively breaks through with the public is not actually the thing that they need to sell. 2 opposing ideas. In the movie business, this tends to lead to a better than fitting opening followed by audience disappointment, bad word-of-mouth, and a big 2nd weekend drop. In a union action… hard to know what the result.

Fran Drescher, who seems to have acquitted herself quite well through this so far, was on MSNBC and sounded like me sometimes… which is to say, passionate and so dense with ideas being detailed that t…