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By Jason Gay 4/02/01 12:00am

Silence of the Laughs (A Writers’ Strike Story) … Ted Koppel’s Big B.S. … ‘Back to You, Melissa!’

Wednesday, March 28

A month from now, if you start to notice more bespectacled, scruffy-cheeked guys in sweatpants and Mr. Bubble T-shirts hanging out in your local record shop, flipping through rare Radiohead imports, you will know it’s happened:

New York’s comedy writers are on strike.

The bomb is set to drop on Read More

By Jason Gay 10/23/00 12:00am

Drop the Crest! There’s a Strike Going on! … W. Does Letterman, Will Bill?

Wednesday, Oct. 18

Hey! Why don’t you care about the commercial actors’ strike? Why aren’t you hooking arms with Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins and standing up to the corporate greed of the advertising industry? Why aren’t you boycotting Procter & Gamble products, like the members of the Screen Actors Guild and Read More

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Silence of the Laughs (A Writers’ Strike Story) … Ted Koppel’s Big B.S. … ‘Back to You, Melissa!’

Drop the Crest! There’s a Strike Going on! … W. Does Letterman, Will Bill?

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