Alan Rosenberg Quotes
The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living. 
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Today, ABC advised the guild that it intends to pay residuals to performers based on the videocassette formula -- a formula that does not apply to this new platform. ABC's actions are flatly inconsistent with our collective-bargaining agreements and with labor law obligations and fail to fairly compensate performers for the use of their work and images.
- Alan Rosenberg
[Alan Rosenberg , husband of Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows), has been elected president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). The actor will replace Melissa Gilbert , who stepped down as president this summer because of all the fighting within the organization.] Actors have real value... We are the product in this town and we have to stand up and start behaving like it.
- Alan Rosenberg
The sharp increase of product placement in film and television too often takes place without any compensation to the very performers that are expected to push those products -- and more often is done without any consultation with those performers and their representatives. It is time for producers to work with artists on this issue, and the best way to do that is to establish a cooperative code of conduct that will protect the artist, the viewing public and advertiser-supported, free television.
- Alan Rosenberg