SAG board runs lines for ensemble meeting

January 11, 2009 Ostensibly a forum to debate the guild's proposed strike-authorization vote, the meeting is likely to entail fireworks over any number of related issues: the possible disbanding of the negotiating committee, the fate of national executive director Doug Allen and the parameters of the new contract that's on the table. A day later, a provocative e-mail started making the blog rounds suggesting that SAG members could use their upcoming SAG Award ballots to punish nominated actors -- including Alec Baldwin, Steve Carell and Sally Field -- who have publicly advocated abandoning the strike-authorization vote. The missive, forwarded by SAG board member Frances Fisher, was roundly blasted by former SAG president Richard Masur as despicably reminiscent of the infamous Hollywood blacklist.

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