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The article below was originally printed on the Huffington Post.

WGA Strike Primer: The Endgame

by Robert J. Elisberg

In the beginning was the word - yet the word most heard these days in Hollywood is not about the beginning at all, but the end. What is the "endgame" to stop the strike? Ultimately, that's the only thing that matters. And with the AMPTP corporations negotiating instead with a

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