SAG-AFTRA split to affect talks?
The bitter weekend divorce between two actors unions in upcoming contract talks with Hollywood producers mirrors a scene from a daytime soap opera - the genre where the whole spat started.AP in the Daily News.
The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have long sniped at each other over who better represents some 44,000 actors who are members of both groups.
The last straw, according to AFTRA President Roberta Reardon, was when the Screen Actors Guild leadership encouraged actors in the soap drama "The Bold and The Beautiful" to abandon the federation a month ago in "a relentless campaign of disinformation and disparagement."