Re: RAT Scabs and other wounds in need of healing

[CasaLobos@aol.com]

If Brandy works for your theatre, or if you know her personally, please let 
her know just how deeply she is driving the knife into the heart of our union 
for the sake of personal short term gain.

(copied from http://www.nypostonline.com/gossip/pagesix.htm)
‘BAYWATCH' BRANDY CROSSES LINE 

ONE of the luscious lifeguards on "Baywatch Hawaii" has a checkered past. Not 
only was she a porn star, she was a scab. And crossing a picket line is 
worse, according to her co-corkers, than crossing any moral line. 

Brandy Ledford, the bathing beauty hired just last season, was recently 
released from the show in favor of Hugh Hefner's girlfriend Brande Roderick - 
and some say it might have to do with her past. 

Ledford, aka Brandy Sanders, is well-known in the porn industry under her 
nom-de-sleaze "Jisel." She not only posed for Penthouse, she also made a 
Penthouse video and another, raunchier hardcore flick before she joined the 
Hawaii-based show. 

While some co-workers think it's a disgrace to have her on the 
"family-oriented program," others laugh it off. "We're talking ‘Baywatch.' 
Who doesn't have a porno history?" quipped one insider. 

But what really has insiders fuming is the fact that Ledford and two of her 
co-stars, Simmone MacKinnon and Stacy Kamano, worked on a non-union music 
video while "Baywatch Hawaii" was on hiatus - violating Screen Actors Guild 
rules. 

The three appeared in "Baywatch Hawaii" music director Dave Keffer's latest 
video for his single, "Hottie Boombalottie." 

Crew members are grumbling even more because Mackinnon, who also 
choreographed the sexy shoot, isn't even American. 

"She is an Australian working courtesy of a work visa, taking away American 
jobs, [while] SAG is already on strike against commercial producers," said 
one snitch. 

A "Baywatch" rep confirmed the video shoot, but claimed, "The three girls did 
it as a favor for the music director. We don't know anything about it and 
don't know what the SAG situation is." 

Regarding Ledford and MacKinnon's position on the show, the rep said: "[The 
show's producers] are going in a different direction. They're trying to make 
‘Baywatch' have more storylines. Some characters were added. Some were 
dropped. No final decision has been made on Simmone." 

This isn't the first trouble to hit the show this year. In February, PAGE SIX 
revealed that there was tension between executive producers Greg Bonann and 
David Hasselhoff. The tensions escalated when Bonan killed off Hasselhoff's 
character without letting the star in on the secret. 

A SAG spokeswoman didn't return calls.