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...lists? More important, how long can the hosts of these strike-silenced shows hold out against the pressure to go back on the air, with or without their writers? That's the agonizing question facing the late-night talk shows as the strike by the Writers Guild of America nears the end of its second week...
...late-night shows - from Letterman and Jay Leno to the twin terrors of Comedy Central, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert - have gone into reruns since the strike began on Nov. 5. But the ethical dilemma confronting the hosts is a keen one. As members of the Writers Guild themselves, do they support their union and refuse to do their shows until the strike is settled? Or go back on the air without their writers - and thus avoid having to lay off dozens of staff members who depend on them for a weekly paycheck and benefits...
...libbed material - but are leery of the consequences. "My sense is that all the hosts would like to come back, but nobody wants to be first," says one late-night producer. They cannot have been encouraged by the experience of Ellen DeGeneres, who drew sharp criticism from the Writers Guild when she resumed her daytime talk show just one day after the strike began - and this week had to cancel a scheduled taping in New York after threats that her show would be picketed...
...Fire - that send the main character to an AA-type addiction meeting. This group here is Siblings Anonymous, and gets a few laughs from the appearance of underachieving brothers Frank Stallone, Stephen Baldwin and Roger Clinton. (I think I know where the members of the striking Writers Guild will be heading after their time on the picket line. They'll be attending a Siblings Anonymous meeting, when they're not at Children's Anonymous...
...Every gift handmade by elves." That's the motto at the North Pole. Just about everyone but the Claus family security force is undersize. Midgets (mostly from Russia) man the assembly lines. The village's Security Force comprises three dwarfs who look like Munchkinland's Lollipop Guild, but tougher; they're the Blackwater of little people...