Hollywood producers this morning withdrew their inflammatory proposal to eliminate residuals, which was the biggest sticking point in the three-month-old, going-nowhere negotiations between the cruel, selfish suits and the riff-raffy Writers Guild. Now there’s a decent chance of reaching some kind of accord before November 1st. AMPTP honcho J. Nicholas Counter III told the N.Y. Times‘ Michael Cieiply that “we now expect the W.G.A. leadership to get down to the business at hand and do what it takes to reach a new labor agreement.†So Terry George…thoughts?
