DGA Members Receive Threatening Email for Helping With Trump Inauguration (Report)
Dozens of guild members got an anonymous email implying consequences for helping with inaugural festivities
Matt Pressberg | January 19, 2017 @ 4:12 PM
Last Updated: January 19, 2017 @ 4:44 PM
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At least 66 members of the Directors Guild of America received an email with an implicit threat to fellow members who choose to work on TV coverage of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, a DGA-covered event, TMZ reported Thursday.
TMZ was forwarded the email by multiple members and cannot confirm the author, although several members told the news site they believe it is someone in a position to hire other members. And that person is clearly no fan of the president-elect, calling him “the monster we all fear.”
“It is not an overstatement that he is about to destroy this country if we don’t do something about it,” the email said, according to TMZ.
At that point, the author pivoted from simply venting about Trump to implying consequences for those who choose to help out with his embattled inauguration, writing that he will be remembering the names of those who collaborated.
“There is no need of naming names when the Inaugural credits will tell us enough about the people who truly care about this country and those who don’t share the same ideals,” the email said.
Another anonymous email from a DGA member seemed to support the first emailer, writing “I often feel like saying, ‘If you work on the inaugural, you’re an asshole. If you work on the inaugural and you voted for Bozo the Nazi, you’re an asshole, AND an idiot!’ But I didn’t say that, did I?”
A source with knowledge of the situation called the initial email “completely ridiculous.” The messages were sent between Jan. 6 and Jan. 10.
“This is a DGA-covered project, staffed with DGA-represented employees,” the DGA said in a statement provided to TheWrap. “We have been in communication with our members, and let them know we support their right to work on this project, and intend to protect them fully. We have, and will continue to, investigate the source of this anonymous email.”
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Judd Apatow is among stars taking part in a "Love-a-thon" on Facebook Live to raise $500,000 to raise money for progressive causes.
Jane Fonda will appear during the Love-a-Thon.
"Savage Love" sex columnist Dan Savage volunteered on his podcast that on inauguration day, "I am going to be getting high, listening to musicals and sucking a d---. ... I am going to have a media blackout."
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Jamie Lee Curtis will also appear during the Love-a-Thon.
Moby says he turned down a DJ gig for the inauguration, and will instead perform at a benefit show on Friday at The Hotel Café in Los Angeles.
Christopher Guest will bring his comedic genius to the "Love-a-Thon."
"Gilmore Girls" actress Kathleen Wilhoite told TheWrap: "I'll be sitting shiva for democracy and equal rights while periodically getting up to go WWE on a punching bag I've colored orange and adorned with tiny doll hands."
John Leguizamo is leading a protest, writing on Twitter: "At noon tomorrow turn your TV's on to anything but the inauguration and lower its ratings as protest to not having a Latinx in his cabinet! ... In solidarity of not 1 Latinx in #trumps cabinet Im asking artists to do a live feed at noon as a protest to #trump at noon time est!"
Oscar winner Patricia Arquette is another "Love-a-Thon" participant.
Beau Willimon, creator of “House of Cards,” will spend part of inauguration day taking part in TheWrap and Politico's Inauguration Hub event in Washington, DC -- a day of issue-oriented discussions.
Tim Robbins is another "Love-a-Thon" guest.
"Absolutely Fabulous" actress Mo Gaffney told TheWrap: "I'll be in NYC girding my loins, figuratively (and literally because...well Trump and grabbing) to head to the Women’s March on Washington. Plus some mourning of democracy and common decency in the U.S."
Jeff Tweedy of Wilco will provide some "Love-a-Thon" music.
Actor and Academy Award-winning director Fisher Stevens will also join TheWrap and Politico's Inauguration Hub event.
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