Credit for what looks to be a successful resolution to the three-month-old writers strike may fall in part to John Bowman, head of the Writers Guild of America's negotiating committee, who set up an informal meeting last month with three studio heads in one of their living rooms. The discussion led to a series of talks that laid the foundation for the agreement that Guild members are voting on today.
See "Private overtures led to strike breakthrough", Richard Verrier and Claudia Eller, Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2008