Is writers strike the Christmas Grinch?
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Nearly two months without paychecks. Scores of shuttered shows. Thousands out of work. The Hollywood writers strike suggests a bleak Christmas for many in Tinsel Town.
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Hollywood writers took to the sidewalks, if not quite the streets, on Monday, as last-ditch bargaining failed to avert the first industrywide strike in more than 19 years.
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LOS ANGELES  - The Hollywood writers  strike looks like a boon for the DVD and video game industries.
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TV producers say they expect writers to return to work as early as Wednesday now that the Writers Guild of America has moved to end its three-month-old strike
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Toys &#39;R&#39; Us played the Grinch by firing an estimated hundreds of employees over the holiday in a desperate cost-cutting move at the embattled toy store, a newspaper report said Monday.
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Episode 12 is delayed due to the animators being off for the holidays. Ryan says that we should have it wrapped up in a couple weeks. This will mark the final episode of the season and the end of our big Christmas special. Next is to start work on the DVD. I&#8217;ll be flying out [...]
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There is an interesting new twist in the age-old "We poor Christians are being attacked!" movement this year: The "keep Christ in Christmas" movement, attracting wannabe-martyrs from churches including  Catholic to Methodist ; Baptists, strangely enough, seem divided on the issue. Some others are threatening to boycott Macy's if they do not replace "Happy Holidays" signs with "Merry Christmas" ones. No information is available from Macy's website about whether the Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hannukah, or Saturnalia signs will be replaced.
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With "American Idol" and Jay Leno back on the air in January, it may seem that all is right with television. But the industry is facing its worst labor crisis in two decades, a crippling writers strike that's reshaping the business of TV and threatening to permanently shift the viewing habits of millions of Americans.
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Retailers are trying to nudge procrastinators into stores with reminders that it's the last full weekend for Christmas shopping. Only 46% of shoppers say they've finished buying gifts, vs. 52% this time last year, when there were severe snowstorms in many parts of the nation.
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NEW YORK  Â No one ever accused Simon Cowell of being compassionate Â until this year. Three weeks into the new season, the resident "American Idol" grinch has been sugarcoating critiques of mediocre and helplessly tone-deaf wannabes.
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Some writers wonder whether the guildâs militant tactics are actually doing more damage than good.
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The Writers Guild of America said Thursday that its members will be allowed to work for the Spirit Awards honoring independent film despite uncertainties surrounding other awards shows because of the Hollywood writers strike.
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EASTLAKE, Ohio - Don't blame the Grinch or Ebenezer Scrooge if this northeast Ohio city isn't quite as jolly and bright for Christmases to come.  City officials say money - or a lack of it - is causing them to put costly holiday decorations up for sale.
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In the last decade, the movie ÂA Christmas Story,Â has become a cult classic that has made it a holiday gleam in the eyes of advertisers.
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With an entire industry  eyeing a pair of Writers Guild of America meetings Saturday,  everybody and their (out of work) brother wants to know when  the picket lines will come down and the union's three-month-old  strike will end.
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It's the Internet's fault that the writers had to go on strike, so surely the Internet will come through in our moment of need and satisfy our hunger for pre-crafted dialogue. That's only fair, right?
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This holiday season, will Wal-Mart give its toy rivals a break?