Well, well, well…how fantastically appropriate that this year’s broadcast was the most embarrassing failure with the lowest ratings ever. Congratulations to all of those who lent their “expertise” to the proceedings and fulfilled their potential in an almost unspeakable catastrophe, appropriately.
I praise those of our colleagues who turned down the opportunity to participate on this year’s fiasco. You are heroes. You have a soul.
Alas, it seems that scraping the bottom of the barrel will always find someone who will do anything for money and betray everything the Guild stands for, including two-bit so-called Directors.
There aren’t words to describe the harm you have caused the Guild, other than ones that describe degrading every principal foundation and overarching morality that is inherent at the DGA , and steeped in its history.
I worked on the Kennedy Center Honors for 32 years, so I think I am one who can speak to the nuance and nausea that this year’s occasion has wrought in ruin.
Ah, but I really blame leadership. How our guild can conspire with a signatory so craven and evil is beyond comprehension.
As I’ve mentioned before, apparently the DGA feels there is the right price to pay for the destruction of our democracy. We colluded with a fascist propaganda machine, and pretend otherwise. Shame.
Unfortunately, it is the same “leadership” that has betrayed our category for decades, and continued this behavior during Covid and the writer’s strike, not to mention its dereliction and cowardice in the last election, unable to support the ONLY pro-union candidate like IATSE continues to do. The guild has repeatedly betrayed the interests of its membership!
I am making strides to again run for Congress, but realize I must also declare the need for censure in the situation we find ourselves.
cen·sure (verb): express severe disapproval of (someone or something), especially in a formal statement.
In so doing, I think the Guild and our Council should petition a vote of “no confidence” in Russel Hollander for leading us into this mess. He has egregiously caused irreparable harm to the guild and its reputation, signaling a loss of trust due to poor performance, unethical behavior and fundamental disagreements, that must lead to redress, resignation, or both.
Current trends in AI as well as runaway production have also worsened, and made our predicament untenable.
I genuinely hope that through this regrettable morass we can recalculate priorities and correct our course to help us realize and foster what the Guild promised from the outset forging a connection of unity and strength of which its founders would have been proud.
I hope the Kennedy Center Honors will again be an honorable endeavor, someday soon.
DS
