![]() “If our stars were all out there in force advocating for us, we’d know it,” the person added. There’s been a “palpable” lack of headliners, one prominent SAG-AFTRA member said. The reluctance of some top-tier stars to walk the picket lines has rankled some SAG-AFTRA members, according to the Variety report. ![]() The strike could shut down Hollywood productions completely with writers in the third month of their strike against the Hollywood studios. Members of SAG-AFTRA, Hollywood’s largest union which represents actors and other media professionals, have joined striking WGA (Writers Guild of America) workers in the first joint walkout against the studios since 1960. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JULY 25: (L-R) BD Wong, Jane Curtain, Bryan Cranston, Nancy Giles, Ezra Knight, Hill Harper, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, Lea DeLaria, Michelle Hurd and Stephen Lang on stage as SAG-AFTRA members hold “Rock The City For A Fair Contract” rally in Times Square on Jin New York City. If Pitt didn’t want to join the front lines, the publicist suggested that he could still “throw on a SAG-AFTRA shirt” at places on where he knows he will be photographed to show his support. The appearance by Pitt at the high-profile tennis match left one leading Hollywood publicist dismayed, according to a report by Variety that was published Monday. Meanwhile, Brad Pitt found time to enjoy the men’s final at Wimbledon on July 16, along with members of the British royal family and other celebrities. Clooney, who is worth an estimated $500 million, has been seen in Italy, enjoying elegant dinner dates with his attorney wife Amal Clooney at restaurants in Lake Como, where he owns an 18th-century vacation villa, Page Six reported.Īmal Clooney Sparkles in Silver During Date Night with Husband George Clooney on Lake Como For actors, that journey starts now.”īut over the past week, Clooney hasn’t looked like a worker whose union is on strike. “For our industry to survive that has to change. “This is an inflection point in our industry,” Clooney said. ![]() In lieu of flowers, please donate to the cardiac care unit of Sarasota Memorial Hospital.As actors and writers continue to strike, demanding a fair share of the billions that film and TV studios rake in every year, George Clooney is among the A-list “megastars” who have thus far stayed away from the picket lines for a possible mix of reasons that are being discussed and debated in Hollywood.Ĭlooney voiced early support for the strike by SAG-AFTRA, issuing a strongly worded statement the day after the 160,000-member actors union voted on July 13 to stop work on film and TV productions. Abrams of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Liane L. Lamere of Sarasota, his nieces Lynette L. Lamere of Hamden, Connecticut, and Peter G. He is survived by his beloved sister, Louise Goodnow Lamere of Sarasota, his nephews, Richard H. To his family he was referred to affectionately as their "Uncle Bull". He was a past member of the Yale Club of New York, the Field Club, the Oaks, Laurel Oaks, and a founding member of Gator Creek Country Club.īill was the son of the late Walter Strickland Goodnow and Ruth Hunter Goodnow of Boston and Duxbury, Massachusetts. During his retirement years, his villa in Horizons West became a library, with extensions into public storage, and a literary salon with troop of book club members and friends visiting. He was a world traveler, cycler, skier, golfer, fly fisherman, and bibliophile. ![]() He provided first jobs and mentoring to a many of Sarasota's aspiring young business men and women.īill was an ardent fan from childhood of his beloved Boston Red Sox. He founded a commercial real estate appraisal firm, Goodnow and Associates, which during Sarasota's development boom of the 70's and 80's became the largest in the city. He earned notoriety as a problem solver, when, during the filming of an Exxon "Put a Tiger in Your Tank" commercial at the Lake Tahoe Resort, the star Bengal tiger briefly got loose in the hotel. He also served a term as a sales executive at Eastman Kodak. ![]() Goodnow served as assistant manager of the Pebble Beach Country Club, and manager of the Locust Hill Country Club in Rochester, NY, and the Lake Tahoe Ski Resort, Nevada. Prior to a three-year stint of trading from his own chair on the New York Stock Exchange during the early 1960's, Mr. He was educated at the Middlesex School ('52) and Cornell University (BS '56) where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and the Kappa Beta Phi honorary society. Bill Goodnow died peacefully at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in the early morning hours of July 12, 2023, after a long illness. ![]()
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