In South Africa, this is what SAG means

By Jack May 19, 2000 12:04 PM

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Tony (Enemy of the State, Top Gun) and Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Blade Runner and Alien) have issued an apology Thursday for a trade-magazine advertisement that was placed by their ad agency, RSA USA, that attacked the striking Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Radio and TV Artists (AFTRA).?The ad noted that an RSA USA TV commercial director, Marcus Nispel, would be shooting commercials in South Africa because of the strike and showed the wrinkled breasts of an elderly black woman over the words: "In South Africa, this is what SAG means." In their statement, the Scott brothers said, "RSA USA made a huge mistake.?Our intent was not to offend people of color, women or anyone else by the use of our advertisement." The apology was ignored by the presidents of SAG and AFTRA, William Daniels and Shelby Scott (no relation), who called on RSA USA clients to dissociate themselves from the agency "and from the racist, sexist and union-busting principles of an ad so repugnant on so many different levels that it simply boggles the mind."

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Fuck the Screen Actors Guild   reply

Posted by Demona (frogfarm@hempseed.com) on May 19, 2000 1:09 PM

Any organization that says to the world, "Join us or we won't allow you to
do what we do," should die as quickly as possible. That goes for all private
'guilds', which should have died in the medieval days that spawned them but
whose remnants still hold us in chains today.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 7, 2002 10:12 PM

SAG... the independent filmaker's worst nightmare!  I hate their f*cking guts for what they put me through to make my film.  May all SAG actors and affiliates die and rot in hell!