Perhaps Mister or Miss Pissed Off should work from home this week so the rest of us can have Owen to ourselves.

When I started work at The Miami News in December of 1980, they were filming "Absence of Malice" downstairs in The Miami Herald's newsroom. Despite the star-power of Paul Newman, Sally Field and director Sydney Pollack, I never heard anyone talk about the Herald's news operation being disrupted. I guess that's because the movie crews were required to work IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT!! Duuuuhhhhhh!!! I would take a break and walk downstairs for a few minutes at 2 a.m. to watch the behind-the-scenes action.

I can't imagine allowing a movie crew to swarm into an active newsroom!! Good gosh!

This newsroom works 7 days a week. Work would get hindered over the weekend, too. Your source probably gets Monday-Friday day shifts. This mentality explains why the cleaning and maintenance crew always does the most intrusive work at night or on weekends. "No one who matters will be bothered." If it keeps me from getting laid off in these times of recession and newspaper death-spirals, I'll wear product placement clothes for them.

You're a reporter and you can't work with distractions? Diagnosis: ADHD. Prescription: Get a new line of work.

I have ACD/OCD. I obsess a lot, but the subject matter is always changing. It never gets boring.

I stopped by the tower for a meeting today and saw a few minutes of the filming. It was fun to see but there's no way I could work in an environment like that - no one could talk, let alone take a phone call. It was astounding to see a newsroom stand still.

Oh no! Does that mean there won't be any news on the front page of tommorow's Sentinel?

(Like today.)

Dear Not9to5,

What fucking paper do you work at? I'm in there after 9 p.m. a lot, and you could throw a bomb in the place and not hit anybody.
The irony of the whole shop is that in a 24/7 news era, the S-S is more 9 to 5 than it was a decade ago. You can't get a damn story in the paper that breaks after 10, and weekends, forget it. You have a skeleton staff mainly of newbies who probably wouldn't know to put up Ken Jenne's obit if he croaked.
If Alan Arkin is playing Earl I hope he's working on sense memory and method. It'll involve sitting in his office looking at his desk with the door open for hours on end. If he wants to really nail the character he'll need hair implants and work with a language coach to reduce his vocabulary.

I hear they put books in Earl's office to make it look like he actually reads.

they put bookshelves in there and then removed them -- apparently the idea of an executive editor actually reading anything was deemed too unrealistic even for hollywood

OMG - if they get the computers that the staffers use in the filming it will look like an an 80's movie......

Its still amazing to me after a few years being gone that there are still some middle managers and staff that are still employed. UNREAL.

From what I understand, that newsroom NEEDS a little commotion these days to wake people up. As for the complaining, what's new? EVERYBODY whines in that newsroom, movie or no movie. Get over it!