Thursday, November 15, 2007

Big Apple Writers Bite Back

Ellen DeGeneres has cancelled plans to tape her talk show in New York City next week, after the local writer's guild basically told her to buzz off.

Ellen was coming to the city that never sleeps for a couple of pre-Thanksgiving episodes, but decided to stay in Burbank after an open letter from the Writer's Guild of America East. The guild, smarting over her decision to cross picket lines on the West Coast, warned her that she would be unwelcome in the Big Apple