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Summer 2001. SAG-AFTRA strike looms. I'm temping at a marketing firm with out-of-work crewbies. Stories about James Woods, David Cronenberg, Marilyn Chambers, and how kindness outlasts Hollywood cred. If you've ever felt like an outsider in the room where it happens, this one's for you
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