Scaling back awards shows and replacing the Golden Globes with a press conference in light of the Hollywood writers strike isn't sitting well with Tom Hanks.

He's hoping the Feb. 24 Oscars take place – as tradition dictates.

"The show must go on," the actor, a double Oscar winner himself, told Reuters in London at Thursday's premiere of his Charlie Wilson's War. "That is one of the tenets of everything,"

Hanks, 51, urges studios to return to the negotiating table to help end the strike. At the moment, no talks are scheduled.

"I am a member of the board of governors of the Academy, and we definitely want to put on a great show and honor the films that have come out in the course of the year," he said, adding that corporate management should be mindful that so many working people are suffering as a result of the dispute.

Besides the approximately 10,500 Writers Guild of America members in conflict with mainstream film and TV studios, "There are caterers and carpenters ... and electricians and gaffers," said Hanks. "There are a lot of people out there associated with the industry, for whom the sooner this work stoppage is over the better."

He adds, "I just hope that the big guys who make big decisions up high in their corporate boardrooms and whatnot get down to honest bargaining and everyone can get back to work."


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why don't they just hold off the Oscars and Golden Globes until the strike is over? I mean, they can push back the week of the American Idol finale sometimes, surely they can push an awards show back until the strikers are finished

This strike can drag into the summer though. Their's no end in site. I think these stars that are now speaking up are in contention for Oscar nominations so that's why they so desperately want to end it fast.

"The show must go on,"
Exactly! Just because the Hollywood writers decide to strike :rolleyes: doesn't mean everyone else needs to sit back until their done. Tom is right these "writers" are preventing others from working. Cross the damn lines and get on with it.

It is very easy to be critical of the writers. However, very few people outside of the industry realize how much it takes to write a TV show. I should know because I took a class last semester in which I wrote a one-hour spec script for Cold Case. I had five months to outline my story and write it and rewrite it. Even though I came up with my story idea months before the entire thing turned out to be completely different from what I originally planned becuase of the re-writes. Writers only have a few days to do all of that and those days are extremely time consuming and because you have lots of people waiting for a final draft, there is a lot of pressure.

For the last twenty years the way we have watched shows have changed. There was no internet to watch and download shows and very few, if any, shows were released on home video. Now there are sites that feature full-length shows and season sets being released on DVD. The writers who have worked so hard on these shows should at least be compensated.

As far as I'm concerned, they can stay on strike forever. They can shut down the Oscars and every other awards show for overpaid, spoiled brats, who spit on the country. Good riddance.

As far as I'm concerned, they can stay on strike forever. They can shut down the Oscars and every other awards show for overpaid, spoiled brats, who spit on the country. Good riddance.


Huh? :lol: