Stars may skip awards shows as strike escalates
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NEW YORK  - Hollywood woke up Tuesday to one weird awards season.
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Viewers may want to brace themselves for a lot of  jury-rigged entertainment if writers and producers do not come to an agreement on a new contract by the end of the month.
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The Academy Awards have vowed that the show will go on, strike or no strike. Herewith, one rendition of what Jon Stewart's Oscar monologue could be on Feb. 24:
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The striking Hollywood writers guild said Tuesday it will refrain from picketing the upcoming Grammy Awards, possibly allowing the music ceremony to escape the fate of the wrecked Golden Globes show.
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Media consumers have been watching the writersâ strike from the sidelines, but they might take notice if the awards season is replaced by marches and pickets.
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The union for striking Hollywood screenwriters said on Tuesday it had decided to spare next month's Grammy Awards from picketing that could dampen the recording industry's highest honors.
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Hal Holbrook, a first-time Oscar nominee at 82, said he would skip the Academy Awards rather than cross picket lines. But it would sting.
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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK  - With the threat of picketing writers having passed, Oscar organizers on Thursday unveiled presenters and performers for their upcoming telecast.
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Hollywood is fearing that the writers' strike, supported by many actors, may prove disastrous for the   Oscars, just as it has forced a big paring down of the Golden Globes Awards ceremony scheduled Jan   13.
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While the writers strike continues to cause turmoil throughout awards season, the ceremony will go on for the Writers Guild of America Â albeit scaled down considerably.
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Hollywoodâs glamour machine has gotten stuck between a promise that the stars will still show up at next monthâs Golden Globes and a threat that 3,000 picketing writers will chase them away.
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After yanking the red carpet out  from under the Golden Globes and threatening the Oscars, the  union for striking Hollywood writers is deciding whether to  picket the U.S. music industry's highest honors.
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In the midst of the Hollywood writers strike, People's Choice Award organizers may retool the format for the Jan. 8 ceremony, two people close to the show told The Associated Press.
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Striking film and TV writers in America have decided not to picket next month's Grammy awards.
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With no picket signs in sight, stars were free to attend the Critics' Choice Awards on Monday. The Writers Guild of America strike, which began Nov. 5, has effectively shut down Hollywood and cast a pall over Tinseltown's awards season. But the Critics' Choice Awards, presented by the Broadcast Film Critics Association at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, isn't covered by guild contracts.
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LOS ANGELES  Â The Golden Globe Awards were thrust into deeper jeopardy Wednesday when the striking writers guild refused to negotiate with Globe organizers about staging a picket-free ceremony.
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Feature film production could screech to a halt in as little as three weeks if Hollywood's actors and industry negotiators do not reach a new contract by the end of the month, industry sources said Monday.