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Tonight’s the night Jay Leno and David Letterman reappear.

They’ve been casualties of the Hollywood writers’ strike but, " The Tonight Show Starring Jay Leno,’ ‘Late Night With Conan O’Brien’ and ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ " are taped and return to the air tonight without their writing staffs, says MarketWatch, going on:

"Members of the Writers Guild of America will picket the Leno and Kimmel shows in Los Angeles later on Wednesday while protesting the O’Brien program in New York.

"The WGA worked out a deal last week with Worldwide Pants, the production company of ‘Late Show with David Letterman’ and ‘Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,’ to resume new shows Wednesday with their writers on board. Worldwide Pants agreed to several proposals the WGA had made to movie and television producers before those talks broke down Dec. 7."

"Your fight is our fight" is the Screen Actors Guild rallying cry to the Writers Guild membership.

But Hollywood looms darkly in the background and, "top-tier actors have universally declined to pick up a sign," says the Los Angeles Times.

"Other than a momentary appearance by Ben Stiller, not a single top-tier movie star – including some rather high-profile WGA hybrids – has found it prudent to say or do anything publicly to support the writers’ cause."

TV and film actors such as Laura Linney, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Josh Brolin, "have shown up on the line or in WGA-supportive United Hollywood videos," says the story, but, "where’s Johnny Depp, Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Brad Pitt, Will Smith and Reese Witherspoon?" – it asks, going on:

"They’ve remained deafeningly neutral, as if they were thinking that if they just stayed still and quiet enough, they could wait everybody out and avoid any partisanship."

The writers and producers say, among other things, they should be paid more when TV shows and movies are streamed or downloaded.

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Also see:
MarketWatch – Writers to picket Leno, O’Brien and Kimmel shows, January 2, 2008
Los Angeles Times – Strike support is not on the A-list, January 2, 2008

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