[NEohioPAL]Just the GOT PAY? Facts PLEASE

[Peter Anthony Gould]

Dear Jean Zarzour,

I feel the need to give a brief and to-the-point response to your email. 
I do not know you, nor was I able to attend the meeting--but I do know
Mary Faktor (and many other people in the Northeast Ohio film and theatre
community) and I know her to be a wonderful, honest, caring, unselfish and
giving person.

I found your comments to be cruel and hateful, and a personal attack on
Mary's character.  She was simply expressing her opinion about the
meeting--and that is her right.

We are a community of artist that do what we do out of love for people and
the art of storytelling.  There is no room for the kind of maliciousness
that was so prevalent in your email.  It was shameful.

Peter Anthony Gould


> BlankDear Pals-  I've read so many emails that my eyes are red.  I am
> trying to focus on the truth of what occurred at the meeting and the very
> exciting results that are in progress as a result of starting this
> movement.  It's all good.
>
> Since it appears that we have one disgruntled attendee, Mary Factor, (who
> was one of the first to approach me after the meeting with a huge dimply
> smile, hug and "that was great") as well as a small handful of people who
> were not there but feel justified in supporting her misinterpretation of
> events, I thought I'd at least offer everyone the actual Power Point
> Presentation that guided our discussion.   It is attached here as a word
> document. I think you can glean some useful information from it even if
> you were not there for the discussion.
>
> Contrary to what Mary had to say, among other complete falsehoods in her
> email, at NO time did anyone EVER tell   "newcomers to negotiate union
> wages or "walk away"  NEVER!
>
> Also, the reason many of us got angry and the discussion got heated was
> because one of the attendees, who happened to be an indie film producer
> who doesn't pay actors, said that "anyone who has any talent has already
> left Cleveland".   Bless you Seth, for paraphrasing what he said with a
> gentler slant, but that was the actual statement.  Lord knows he is
> entitled to his opinion, but so is everyone else, even if it's an angry
> one.
>
> In spite of his inflammatory comment, he was very positive about the
> meeting in his email (posted by me in testimonials earlier today) and has
> expressed regret over his comment in a phone conversation today.  I
> respect that indi film producer over anyone who would rather choose to be
> a hypocrite; smiling and hugging me one minute and then publicly
> proclaiming her outrage the next.  That was something you might have done
> at the meeting, Mary.
>
> Perhaps all this came about because Mary was refused a seat as a panelist
> on the 3 occasions that she asked me.  I respectfully declined because we
> had so many actors already and I wanted to reserve seats for other
> artists.  Could that be what her grandstanding email was all about?  A
> last ditch effort to have her bio read by all?  After all the
> contradictions that I experienced with Mary before, during and after the
> meeting, what else could I conclude?
>
> That's it from me for now.  Enjoy the PP Presentation.
>
> "If money is made, the talent gets paid!"
>
> Your devoted advocate and founder of the GOT PAY? Organization-
>
>  Jean Zarzour
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