Promising closed-door talks aimed at settling Hollywood?s three-month-old strike by movie and television writers have been jolted in the last few days by the actions of some prominent guild leaders. Phil Alden Robinson, best known as the writer and director of ?Field of Dreams? and a member of the governing board of the Writers Guild of America West, has publicly called for a toughened bargaining position. He expressed wariness over modeling any prospective deal on a new contract recently reached between production companies and the Directors Guild of America. His critique was posted Tuesday on a Web site called United Hollywood and linked on the guild?s site.
See "Recent Moves by Guild Leaders Rattle Writers? Talks", Michael Cieply, The New York Times, January 30, 2008