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Published: Saturday, February 9, 2008 10:43 PM MST

From the Associated Press

Hollywood writers got their first look Saturday at details of a tentative agreement with studios that could put the strik-crippled entertainment industry back to work, an offer the union's East Coast president said Saturday he would endors.

Compensation for projects delivered via digital media was the central issue in the 3-month-old walkout, which idled thousands of workers, disrupted the TV season and moviemaking annd took the shine off Hollywood's awardds season.

"I believe it is a good deal. I am going to be recommending this deal to our membership," Michael Winship, president of the Writers Guild of America, East, told reporters before a New York meeting at a Times Square hotel.

If guild members react favorably to the proposed deal, the guild's board could vote Sunday to lift the strike order and the industry could be up and running Monday.

This mont's Oscars ceremony, which has been under the cloud of a union and actors boycott, also would be a winner. Sunday's Grammy Awards ceremony has a picket-free pass from the union.

Heath Ledger's family, his former fiance Michelle Williams and Australia's entertainment elite bade hime farewell at a private memorial service Satruday in his hometown of Perth.

Ledger's family returned earlier this week to bury the actor, who died in his Manhattan apartment at age 28 from a prescription drug overdose on Jan. 22. The family attended a memorial service in Los Angeles las weekend.

Several hundred people gathered at a Perth local girls' school, Penrhos College, for a memorial that mixed personal tributes, modern rock and traditional Aboriginal music.

The 75-minute service kicked off with the performance of didgeridoo, a traditional Aboriginal wind instrument, performer Levi Islam said. Rock songs were also played, Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin," the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun," "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd and Neil Young's "Old Man," according to a program of the service.


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