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The Economics of Bad Films

The Political Orphanage

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The Importance of Writer Strikes

In Breaking Bad, Jesse Pinkman was originally going to be killed off at the end of the first season. The 1988 writer strike meant that Star Trek, the next generation, couldn't utilize its stable of union writers. So running out of material, they resorted to purchasing spec scripts,. Can't tell me, Commander, what is data? I don't understand.

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