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Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
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California Labor Code Section 2855. A simple little bit of law that had a massive impact on Hollywood. During the studio era, actors were signed to personal services contracts. Now under California Labor Code Section 2855 these were limited to 7 year terms. But one of the tricks the studios used was an argument that the terms were only valid while an actor was working. If you challenged the studio, then the terms of the contract was suspended. This time would be added onto the end of the existing contract. Oh and in their view, if you renewed the contract or it was in any way modified such as a pay raise, the calendar period would reset. And it will come as no surprise that these contracts had some rather nasty forfeiture clauses if you quit.
That is Olivia de Havilland. She's probably best known for playing Melanie Hamilton in Gone With The Wind, she also stared in a number of films with Errol Flynn. But she grew frustrated with the roles offered her. She was being typecast as the damsel in distress or the wide eyed ingénue. So she started to refuse roles. And Warner's suspended her. Then it followed up insult to injury by loaning her out to RKO for a rather inane comedy. In 1943 she brought suit against Warner Brothers for violations of California Labor Code Section 2855. Now this was risky. Bette Davis had tried this in the 1930s and lost. Her suit moved forward. She won the first round but Warner Brother's appealed. And lost with all three appeals judges ruling that the law was quite clear on this point and the contract could be terminated after seven calendar years.
http://law.justia.com/cases/california/calapp2d/67/225.html
Warner Brother's attempts to appeal to the California Supreme Court were denied. And the dynamic between actors, actresses and the studios changed dramatically. Now instead of treating their stars like chattel there became a strong incentive to keep them happy. This corresponded to the the rise of SAG as a union. Later on the anti-trust lawsuits would break the remains of the old studio system and give us the modern one.
California Labor Code Section 2855 is now more commonly referred to as De Havilland's Law.
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let me dance for someone
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
this is like the 3rd in a few weeks
Two last month. One in December. Two in November. There is some sort of weighting thing that is skewed toward me.
Seems dumb. Hey, these things your culture created where a nice idea, and there are totally tartans, nights watch for instance, which don't have particular associations.
Kimonos, sarans, togas... There's like a bunch of North African and middle Eastern men's skirt type things...
Fuck, people from all those places where Europe cut suits and jeans, and other styles.
Seriously. It just freaking clothing. Why not wear what you think looks good?
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
That was her cousin who ran the de Havilland airplane company that gave us the Mosquito.
Dudes in skirts/kilts, though, can be pretty rad:
You do cool stuff, but it is skewed. It's called Jacob.
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
This is the guy who told me not to go chase tail
Shaking head
Fuck it, I'm just going to buy pizza for supper.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
I'm guessing this. I doubt Jacob is pulling strings to get me Chat OPs.
Have you ever realized.. The mask from scream... Is based on the painting.. The scream
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
Growl
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Didn't see this when I just commented above but
Makes sense
Yes, actually.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Ain't nobody got time for that.
See now you guys are starting to get it.
*wears a suit every day*
I did a set of 60 then a set of 50
My broken shoulder aches but who cares. If it's already torn it's already torn
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mckedinik
You did 60 push-ups without stopping?????! God damnit Jake
Don't be stronger than i am
I'm gonna do 60 tomorrow
What the fuck is Magic Leap showing people?
overdone imo