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Actors' Threats Don't Scare Studios

Hollywood doesn't think union will really head for picket lines

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 2, 2008 1:12 PM CDT

(Newser) – The Screen Actors Guild’s contract has expired, but Hollywood remains strangely sublime, Variety reports. This isn’t like the writers strike, conventional wisdom has it, because actors don’t support a strike the way the writers did. “People who are working don't want... Read full story »

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