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...father and Neil held jobs administering federal welfare programs at the local level during the Depression. Reagan acknowledges that he was not very concerned about Communism until he returned from the Army after World War II to resume his movie career and became head of the Screen Actors Guild. It was a time of choosing up sides in Hollywood, of violent labor disputes and the bitter controversy about blacklisting. Reagan recalled it recently in one of those rambling monologues that sometimes seem to reveal more than he realizes. It produced a rarity in his usual discourse: a flash of real...
White collar unions are not a new phenomenon. The American Federation of Teachers is 64 years old, and the Newspaper Guild was founded in 1933. But office workers have usually thought of themselves as "employees with a difference," says Simon Alpert of the United Auto Workers. They feel closer to management than to hourly production workers...
...Newman, Fonda and Redford. Now the directors are often just as famous: Francis Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas. But who has heard of Reuben Cannon, Michael Fenton and Partner Jane Feinberg, Jennifer Shull, Lynn Stalmaster or Joyce Selznick? Almost 50,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild, that's who. For these are the casting directors, the silent powers who put the sparks into most of those stars way back when and who often mean the difference between a smash and a bust at the box office...
...story editors, the major writers and directors, the show's chief publicists and a few Lorimar and CBS executives. All principals swear they have not even told their spouses. The actors will not know until the crucial scene is shot-a date propitiously delayed by the Screen Actors Guild strike. The first two shows will be littered with red herrings, but only one version of the "revelation" will be shot...
Throughout the summer, momentum has been building for an answer to the mystery. Nowhere was the Mo bigger than in Dallas itself, where the cast and crew shot location footage before the Screen Actors Guild strike shut down the set. (If the strike lasts much longer, the Dallas season premiere may be postponed; Lorimar has filmed pieces of a dozen episodes, but not all of any one.) For six weeks, thousands of Dallas addicts turned the actual Southfork Ranch into a Texas tourist attraction second only to the Alamo. The neighbors threatened to sue, but Southfork Owner Joe Rand Duncan...