<![CDATA[Grammy Producers To WGA: "Please Grant Us A Waiver For The Children" - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Grammy Producers To WGA: "Please Grant Us A Waiver For The Children" - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:48:44 EST Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:48:44 EST http://idolator.com/345445/grammy-producers-to-wga-please-grant-us-a-waiver-for-the-children <![CDATA[Grammy Producers To WGA: "Please Grant Us A Waiver For The Children"]]> http://idolator.com/345445/grammy-producers-to-wga-please-grant-us-a-waiver-for-the-children#c3737686 They should just let Kanye present all the awards so he can improvise jive, egotistical, emotionally needy bullshit any time there's dead air. I'm sure that with the right mixture, he'd cough up a great rant about how the WGA doesn't care about black people.

SuperUnison

]]> 33:345445:c3737686 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:48:44 EST <![CDATA[Grammy Producers To WGA: "Please Grant Us A Waiver For The Children"]]> http://idolator.com/345445/grammy-producers-to-wga-please-grant-us-a-waiver-for-the-children#c3735230 @dennisobell: and - c'mon - you really think anything would get between Kanye West and a possible nationally televised award?

[insert obligatory Gretchen Wilson, Maroon 5, and Justice jokes here]

Rob Murphy

]]> 33:345445:c3735230 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:08:53 EST <![CDATA[Grammy Producers To WGA: "Please Grant Us A Waiver For The Children"]]> http://idolator.com/345445/grammy-producers-to-wga-please-grant-us-a-waiver-for-the-children#c3734880 They're pushing the community-building angle with WGA, because that's what got the NAACP Image Awards a waiver. Basically, the guild has shown a weird inconsistency on the waiver thing, tending to pick and choose whom they're going to strike based on whether it would make a network president unhappy if that show were to get canceled.

I'm sticking with what I said yesterday: the Grammys will be made more drab, but there's no way they'll get canceled. Yes, Beyonce and Bruce won't cross a picket line, but: most acts are too craven to observe such things; musicians mostly aren't unionized and aren't under any obligation to observe pickets, anyway; the show is too important to the music industry, arguably even more critical than the Oscars are to Hollywood; and - c'mon - you really think anything would get between Kanye West and a possible nationally televised award?

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:345445:c3734880 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:51:29 EST <![CDATA[Grammy Producers To WGA: "Please Grant Us A Waiver For The Children"]]> http://idolator.com/345445/grammy-producers-to-wga-please-grant-us-a-waiver-for-the-children#c3734386 I hate to think how bad this will be without writers, as it usually sucks with them.

blackmailismylife

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