In a Century Plaza Hotel ballroom earlier this week, 600 people gathered to hear Hollywood heavyweights tally the fallout from the writers strike. Meanwhile, in another corner of the hotel, union officials representing movie and TV actors huddled to finalize a battle plan for their upcoming contract talks. Hollywood is hoping their story has a different ending. Or better yet, a complete rewrite of the plot ? one without a strike. "It seems completely out of the question that there would be," said actress Ashley Jones, a star on CBS' daytime drama "The Bold and The Beautiful" who also works on primetime TV series and movies. "But," she continued, "you never know."
See "Actors take the labor stage as strike-weary Hollywood watches", Lynn Elber, Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 27, 2008