The surprisingly heated, and verbally controversial, elections because the leadership of SAG-AFTRA – the union to which virtually all actors working in Hollywood belong – have reached their bloody conclusion this weekend, as Fran Drescher has appeared, bloodless and triumphant, who leads the (metaphorical) election leader Matthew Modine in his hands.
That is: Drescher is now the head of SAG-AFTRA, after which, according to all accounts, he was a extremely bitter elections, which saw accusations of everything from support for the January 6 insurrection to sympathy for the cult of the NXIVM thrown between rivals. Drescher was the apparent heir to the Unite For Strength party / platform that ran things at SAG-AFTRA in recent years, while Modine represented rival MembershipFirst. (God, those names.)
But not everything is straightforward for Drescher’s rise to impeccably dressed power: his running mate, Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp, yes no he won his election as secretary-treasurer, which went to Modine ally Joely Fisher. And while this might simply mean a kind of compromise position, it will eventually emerge from all the arguments., it seems just as likely that we are about to get into real Jefferson-Burr-type shit, and in a few years we will write an article about Joely Fisher trying to become the Emperor of Mexico.
However, in the short term, the two sides of the issue (who advocate, in very general terms, “Let’s keep doing what we’ve been doing” and “Let’s change everything,” because politics) will probably have to find a way to work together. under the leadership of Drescher. And who will say he can’t get it? It’s stylish, it’s stylish, it’s just, like, a tweet about how 5G cellular signals cause coronavirus… That’s how she became the president-elect of SAG-AFTRA.
[via Variety]
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