It’s Sunday morning and also you log into Zoom. Natasha Lyonne greets you and, as a pair, you start to unravel the New York Instances crossword puzzle.
As you rise up to make your self a espresso, you examine in on the mural Lena Dunham is at the moment portray in your lounge. The doorbell rings and also you greet Adam Scott in your entrance step; he’s there to take your canine for a stroll.
Whereas it could sound like a random, but oddly enjoyable, celebrity-filled fever dream, it’s a situation that would doubtlessly be yours — supplied you have the funds for and wonderful on-line bidding expertise.
The Union Solidarity Coalition is a bunch of actors, writers and administrators at the moment on strike who’re elevating cash for the well being care of their crews.
To drum up some cash for his or her trigger, a bunch of them have banded collectively to host an eBay public sale, providing up some enjoyable, and generally very odd, private experiences and memorabilia to most of the people.
Among the many listing of things are an in-person dinner with “actual life besties” Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, the prospect to decide the brains of Spike Jonze and Lena Dunham, a spherical of 20 Questions with Sarah Silverman or Maggie Gyllenhaal, or a signed fedora from singer-songwriter Tom Waits.
It’s also possible to bid on lunch with The Handmaid’s Story’s Ann Dowd, have your relationship squabble mediated by Rosemarie Dewitt and Ron Livingston, or attend a two-hour pottery class with Busy Philipps.
If the considered interacting with a celeb makes you a contact nervous, nevertheless, you may also bid on another attention-grabbing gadgets: the solid of Bob’s Burgers will write and sing you a private music, six-time Emmy winner John Lithgow will create a watercolour portrait of your canine, you may decide up a “Bizarre” Hawaiian shirt signed by Daniel Radcliffe and Bizarre Al, or you may snag one of many signature blue aprons from The Bear, signed by stars Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Ayo Edebiri.
Hollywood’s film and tv business has been at a standstill because the WGA determined to strike after it was unable to an settlement with the foremost streaming companies and studios. Actors adopted swimsuit in July, becoming a member of the writers on the picket traces after SAG-AFTRA additionally got here to an deadlock.
Hundreds of union members and those that depend on studio productions at the moment are out of labor, and since the U.S. doesn’t supply common well being care, many are struggling to pay for drugs and different therapies.
The public sale proceeds will go to the Movement Image & Tv Fund, which supplies well being look after unions IATSE, LIUNA and Teamsters.
In all interactions, the phrases stress that bidders should behave appropriately with the celebs and can’t attempt to solicit any private achieve from the conversations.
“The expertise has the appropriate to finish the expertise at any time, for any cause, with no refund,” the listings learn.
The auctions are now open to bidding, which is able to run till Sept. 22. Should you’ve obtained lots of some spare cash mendacity round, go for it.
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