Looks like the "no" side is mobilizing the star power.
As SAG called off its emergency Friday board meeting, more than 130 stars -- including George Clooney, Matt Damon and Tom Hanks -- have strongly urged SAG members to vote down the guild's strike authorization.
The list also includes Alan Alda, Jason Alexander, Alec Baldwin, Steve Carell, Billy Crystal, Cameron Diaz, Sally Field, Morgan Freeman, Jeremy Irons, Helen Hunt, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Kevin Spacey and Charlize Theron, along with former SAG presidents Patty Duke, Melissa Gilbert and William Schallert.
In a letter sent Monday to leaders of the Screen Actors Guild, the stars said a strike would create more economic hardship and called for SAG to unite with other Hollywood unions in three years. Doing so would be a way to "take the high road," they added.
The letter was issued shortly before guild president Alan Rosenberg spoke before an overflow crowd of several hundred at a townhall meeting Monday night at the Westin Times Square. Prior to the meet, New York board member Paul Christie described New York members as "ticked off" about the strike authorization.
"They already realize how hard they've been hit financially, and the idea that we'd be asking them to go out on strike, and the idea that they'd be asking the IATSE guys, the craft services people, AFTRA guys and everybody else to go on strike at this point, we think, is just insane," Christie told Daily Variety. "I haven't run into one person here who's in favor."
WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO STAR IN ONLINE SCI-FI SHOW
Whoopi Goldberg is set to star and exec produce the sci-fi miniseries 'Stream' for Fearnet.com.
Set to debut online and on video-on-demand beginning Jan. 15, 'Stream' will air in six five-minute weekly segments. Goldberg will play the lead character, Jodi, trying to come to terms with her lifelong fears.
Goldberg, who appears on daytime talker 'The View,' has a history in sci-fi. She co-starred in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' in the late 1980s.
This will be the sixth original series Fearnet, which is a joint venture between Comcast, Sony Pictures Television and Lionsgate. VOD is available on Comcast, Time Warner and Cox cable operators.
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