Skip, skip, skip press!
Rev. Desertphile de Rothschild
Subject: Skip Press, His Biggest Lie, & Why He's Being Sued Again
Date: 1999/07/21
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In his latest pack of lies, Skip Press writes:
>I've sold a couple of features
He makes this claim repeatedly, yet he never provides any
specifics. However, Corrine Tippin, the WGA new member
administrator, confirms at no time has Press ever been
eligible for or has the Guild ever been notified of an
employment that makes him eligible. It's clear from his
past messages that he doesn't understand how the new member
process works, because he has never been eligible and has
not experienced it.
>I'm eligible for the WGA
Here is the heart of the oft-repeated Skip Press lie: he
has made up a new category called the "WGA Eligible" writer.
There is no such thing. This is the same as the newbie actor
who puts on his resume "SAG eligible." That means you would
join the Guild if you could, but at present you can't.
Anyone here, who is not a WGA member, therefore
becomes "eligible for the WGA."
He implies, falsely, that one can apply to become a Guild
member any time after an eligible sale. That is not true.
When you are approached by the Guild, and do not accept
membership, the offer is not left open. Even though he lies
about eligible sales, for the sake of argument, if it was
true, he could not then later go back and decide to join
the Guild. If you do not join the Guild when you have an
eligible employment or sale, you can only join it when you
have another sale or employment.
Press doesn't realize that any WGA member can check with the
Membership Department as to who is on what is known as "the
work list." This is a listing of all writers who have done
business with signatory companies. This is updated on a
daily basis, as studios and signatories notify the Guild
whom they've employed or from whom they bought material. He
doesn't know anything about the WGA as an outsider and
doesn't know that his lie is easily exposed by any WGA
member, as has been done repeatedly.
As a WGA outsider, he also doesn't know that a list is
maintained of those who have falsified claims about WGA
eligibility or membership. His name is on that list. In the
unlikely event he would ever sell anything and therefore try
to gain membership in the Guild, his false claims will come
back to haunt him.
As a WGA outsider, he also doesn't realize that WGA members
can appear before the WGA Membership Committee and object to
his admission as a new member. Given that he has libeled and
defamed so many WGA members, from Abe Polonsky to John
Milius to Larry Gelbart to Harlan Ellison, one who allegedly
is suing him for libel, there is already a fat file of
statements ready for the Membership Committee in the very
unlikely event Press would ever get work as a screenwriter
and then be considered as a new WGA member.
Press tries to show some sort of "super" status by claiming
a friendship with Dan Petrie, the present WGA President.
Dan will confirm, however, that he barely knows Press and
only granted him an interview as a matter of course, as he
does to many people. When those who Press has libeled and
defamed brought Press' false claims to Petrie's attention,
understandably he was appalled and instantly agreed to never
be interviewed by him again. Dan's term as president is soon
over, and Press has already begun to pull back his "link"
to him, as can be seen in his recent defamatory statements,
which, of course, were immediately sent to Dan.
Skip Press lives in terror that these truths are circulated.
Because this exposes the reality: he has very little
experience as a screenwriter and has only written one or
two episodes of a scab TV show 15 years ago, work most
people here easily could get. But he is trying to pass
himself off as a "top screenwriter" in order to sell his
book.
So there are Skip's lies exposed. Scream about "trolls" and
anonymous posters and whatever you want. He has repeatedly
cyberstalked various writers. The instant you expose him,
he begins his illegal stalking and other related activities.
That was why he was thrown off of AOL (and that explains
his vitriol about AOL, by the way). Hence, one must expose
Press from a distance, because he immediately begins his
stalking, harassing phone calls, and other illegal activity.
His infantile behavior on this newsgroup is testament to the
fact that he will do anything, no matter how childish or
petty, to silence those who tell the truth about him.
Now that he's apparently being sued by a prominent writer,
however, he may not be so bold as before. His past will
finally catch up to haunt him in a very expensive way.
He was sued once before when he was stalking and harassing
people from AOL. Unfortunately, the writer who pressed that
case against him dropped it once AOL agreed to kick Press
off their system. Had that writer pressed the case, his
constant harassment and stalking would have been stoppped.
In the end, the fact is Skip Press has so maligned so many
WGA members and has told so many lies, he will never be a
WGA member himself, no matter what childish antics he
tries here and elsewhere in cyberspace in his constant
harassment and stalking campaign.
He is, then, in fact, "WGA Ineligible." Forever.
cc: Prima Press, Computor Edge
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