SAG STRIKE FALLOUT: DAILY VARIETY's Dave McNary
reported that while the SAG/AFTRA strike ended yesterday
when the unions have "endorsed a tentative deal" with
advertisers, the SAG board also "approved a permanent ban on
the most serious strikebreakers," including Tiger Woods and
Shaquille O'Neal. SAG "already has the power to expel
members for violations, ... but the new rules will make it
easier for the union to specifically target those who were
strikebreakers" (DAILY VARIETY, 10/30).
JETER'S THE HIT AT PARADE: More than "a million chilly
fans smothered" the Yankees at the team's World Series
victory parade in N.Y. yesterday. In N.Y., Mbugua &
Goldiner write that SS Derek Jeter was the "undisputed star
of the show," as he "drew shrieks of excitement from teenage
girls" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 10/31). Steiner Sports Marketing
President Brandon Steiner said Jeter "reminds me of Michael
Jordan. People keep wondering how far he can go. He just
keeps on taking it to another level" (N.Y. POST, 10/31).
Jeter appeared on the "Late Show" with David Letterman
yesterday and said of his new book, "The Life You Imagine":
"It's not a book about my baseball career. It's about the
lessons I learned from my parents, because ... I think those
are the best parents in the world" ("Late Show," CBS,
10/30). Attendance at N.Y. high schools was 71.2%
yesterday, "down from a normal" 80% (USA TODAY, 10/31).
Middle school attendance "fell to" 88%, a 2% drop from a
"usual day," and 92% of elementary students attended, which
was normal (NEWSDAY, 10/31). Letterman, on the Yankees'
victory parade: "Do you know how to get to the Canyon of
Heroes? You go down the Avenue of Hookers, and then you
turn right onto the Boulevard of Junkies, and it's the first
left when you get down there" ("Late Show," CBS, 10/30).
GOLF: MA-based Acushnet has expanded its "ongoing
relationship to become [the] official 'golf company'" at the
Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando. The deal includes
providing Titleist and Cobra brand clubs and bags for
rentals, official status for FootJoy shoes and "prominent
positioning" for Titleist and Pinnacle balls in the resort's
golf shops (BRANDWEEK, 10/30 issue)....USGA Exec Dir David
Fay met with Arnold Palmer last Thursday in Orlando "to
discuss Palmer's recent endorsement" of Callaway Golf's non-
conforming ERC II driver (see THE DAILY, 10/27). Palmer
"denied rumors he's had a change of heart" about the
endorsement (GOLF WORLD BUSINESS, 10/30)....Bank of America
has "discontinued its Golf and Marina Finance Group," which
leaves Atlanta-based Textron Financial Corp. as the "runaway
golf financing leader" (GOLFWEB, 10/30).
