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Article: Fisher disavows boycott email.
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- January 19, 2009
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Screen Actors Guild board member Frances Fisher has disavowed a suggested boycott of eight actors who are up for SAG awards.
Fisher apologized Friday for forwarding earlier this month a pair of anonymous emails proposing that SAG members withhold their award votes from the eight thesps because of their public stance against SAG's strike authorization vote.
"My intention in forwarding the anonymous emails regarding the SAG Awards was to alert my private email list of opinions and feelings that were circulating," she said in a statement. "Artistic merit should be the only criteria for award selection."
The anonymous email singled out Josh Brolin ...