Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales From the New Abnormal in the Movie Business (42 page)

Witherspoon, Reese,
133
n

WME,
166
,
197
,
207
,
210
,
231
,
237

Wolcott, James,
199
,
215

Wolitzer, Meg,
251

Words, The,
43

World of Warcraft,
5
,
61

World Trade Center, 1993 bombing,
24
,
115

World War Z,
111

Wright, Lawrence,
115

Writers Guild of America (WGA),
162
–95

Writers Guild strike (1959–60),
166
,
174

Writers Guild strike (1988),
38
,
162
,
163
,
166
,
167
,
174
,
185

writers’ strike (2008),
23
,
109
,
162
–95

aftermath of,
190
–95,
200
–201

Ardent Fall,
171
–76

and author’s contract not renewed,
193
–95

and Christmas,
179
–80

and DGA,
164
,
167
–68,
180
,
183
,
185
–88

Fading February,
180
–90

force majuere,
178
–79,
193

and Internet market,
38
,
163
–64,
165
,
166
,
185

and Moguls (AMPTP),
163
–68,
172
,
176
–79,
183
–87,
190
–92,
233

narrator,
169
–70

and the next one,
189
–90,
233

October 2007 strike deadline,
164
–69

and Oscar deadline,
186
,
190

and recession,
38

and technology,
38
–39

Wu, Bruno,
69

Xbox,
234

X-Files, The,
205

Xi Jinping,
67
,
72
,
73
–74

X-Men: First Class,
5
,
8

Young, David,
171
,
187

Young, Jim,
43

YouTube,
27
,
45
,
100
,
209
,
233
,
239
,
261

Zelman, Daniel,
205

Zemeckis, Robert,
3
,
251
,
254

Zero Dark Thirty,
7
,
47
,
254

Ziskin, Laura,
9
,
42
,
123
,
202

Zwick, Ed,
24
,
69
,
113
,
114
–15,
119

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Obst, Lynda.

Sleepless in Hollywood : tales from the new abnormal in the movie business /

Lynda Obst. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Motion picture industry—United States. I. Title.

PN1993.5.U6O29 2013

384'.8'0973—dc23

201251638

ISBN 978-1-4767-2774-5

ISBN 978-1-4767-2776-9 (ebook)