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Category Archives: About TV
Teamsters to “Hug it Out” on Reality TV? Ask Mark Wahlberg
photo credit: Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer Mark Wahlberg, who has had quite the run of successes as a producer in TV and film with shows like “Entourage”, “Boardwalk Empire”, and “How to Make It in America”, not … Continue reading
Posted in About TV, Celeb Watch
Tagged A&E, Boardwalk Empire, Boston, Entourage, Mark Wahlberg, Teamsters, The Fighter, Unions, workers
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Mike Daisey’s performance exposing China factory worklife finds another more accessible platform
The talk about this performance just keeps piling up. Featured today in cover story for CBS Sunday Morning show here, Having started at Berkeley Rep and then Washington’s Wooly Mammoth, monologist Mike Daisey’s brilliant, funny, disturbing report on working conditions in … Continue reading
Posted in About Art - Performance, About TV, Uncategorized
Tagged apple, cbs, china, factories, ira glass, mike daisey, public theater, steve jobs, television, work, work by hand, workers, Wyatt Closs
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2011 Workers Voice Awards Announced!
PopWork USA is proud to bestow its 2011 Workers Voice Awards to an impressive array of artists and entertainers and their products whose efforts show work vividly. Based on a survey of people in the arts, entertainment, union, and working … Continue reading
Posted in About Art - Visual, About Books, About Film, About Music, About TV, Uncategorized, Videos To Peep, Workers Voice Awards
Tagged a better life, a moment in the sun, aloe blacc, blowback productions, chris weitz, dirty job, discovery, friday night lights, greg daniels, griftopia, hbo, i need a dollar, j. shimon, john sayles, mike taibbi, nbc, occupy arts, occupy design, occupy la, occupy sound, parks and recreation, peter berg, shimonlindeman.blogspot.com, tom morello, triangle documentary, union song, wisconsin
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2011 Workers’ Voice Awards Nominations, Part 1 Announced
Demonstrating its commitment to encouraging and promoting entertainment and art that reflect work, workers, and their issues, PopWork USA announced its list of nominees for Best Films, TV Shows, and Art Displays this week.Among feature films, those under consideration for … Continue reading
Posted in About Art - Visual, About Film, About TV, Blog Blog and More Blog
Tagged a better life, About Film, Company Men, Even the Rain, Made in Dagenham, PopWork USA, Too Big to Fail, TV Art, Wyatt Closs
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Worker Solidarity Prevails on “Entourage”
A little bit of worker solidarity worked its way into the HBO hit comedy “Entourage” with the recent episode “The Big Bang”. Among the storylines was one in which character Johnny Drama decides to unite with his fellow actor Andrew … Continue reading
Posted in About TV, Uncategorized, Videos To Peep
Tagged actors, Andrew Dice Clay, comedy, Entourage, executives, hbo, Johnny Drama, pop culture, solidarity, strike, TV, work, workers
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