Hollywood studios could face 2 strikes for the first time in 63 years. How did we get here?
LOS ANGELES — The year was 1960. An actor named Ronald Reagan was president of the Screen Actors Guild, which was at the time fired up about residuals over films licensed to or sold to TV.
The result was a strike that lasted March 7 to April 18 and halted movies starring such luminaries as Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe.
Actors joined the industry's writers, who had already been on strike since January of that year. The writers' strike was long — their dispute lasted 148 days — and centered on income that screenwriters would get from movies airing on television and other issues.
Sixty-three years later, Hollywood is once again in the midst of a historic labor battle in which studios are facing a possible strike on two fronts in a protracted battle over new forms of distribution.
if they can't reach a deal with the major studios by Wednesday night, when their extended contract officially expires. They would join members of the since May 2, broadening
