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Jan 27 2009 8:28am EDT

Idle Chatter: SAG Devours Its Own, more

-The board of the Screen Actors Guild has ousted the union's executive director, Doug Allen, who had been pushing for SAG to take a hard line in its negotiations with the producers' association over digital revenues. [DHD]

-The Senate has agreed to postpone the transition to digital over-the-air television signals, now scheduled to take place next month, until June. For that to happen, however, the Senate's bill will still have to be reconciled with a version passed by the House. [B&C]

-Fox Newser Greta Van Susteren has been saying nice things about MSNBC lately. Does she want a job there? [Huffpo]

-Here's more about megapastor Rick Warren's new magazine, the inadequately-hyphenated Purpose Driven Connection. [WSJ]

-Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's ashes will be shot into space in 2012. Well, the rest of his ashes. [AP]. □

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