A lifetime ago (actually, in the 1990s and early 2000s), I worked as a labor and employment lawyer for a series of Hollywood studios. Much of the job involved sitting at negotiating tables with other studios’ labor negotiators to hammer out deals with the dizzying assortment of unions who make TV shows and movies — including SAG-AFTRA (actors), WGA (writers), Teamsters (drivers), IATSE (crew) and DGA (directors). It has, therefore, been painful to watch the writers’ guild strike drag on, only to be followed now by an actors strike, knowing that it all affects thousands of people’s livelihoods. With both unions out, whatever remaining productions were still shooting have come to a halt.