Studios say the number is unrealistic − that it amounts to actors not assuming any financial risk for content that flops. But actors simply want to adapt existing payout models to changing technology.
Ronald Reagan, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, gives Lois Maxwell her member card in 1947.
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Reagan is the only union leader to serve as US President. Paradoxically, he was also one of the most aggressively anti-union presidents of the 20th century.
As this picket sign says: lights, cameras, no action.
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