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Who’s Striking: Nora Ephron

The Writers Guild picket line moves to Silver Cup Studios in Long Island City tomorrow, and none other than Nora Ephron is “supposed to” attend, according to Sherry Goldberg of Writers Guild of America East.

Given that late-night writers turned out in droves to Rockefeller Center today, can we also expect appearances from some of the stars?

Writers On Strike, With An Assist from Obama

Forgive us if we in the Forward newsroom are paying a little bit of extra attention to the Writers Guild strike. We’re union members ourselves, and the whole brouhaha has our favorite celebrities going all lefty on us: SNL’s Tina Fey and Seth Myers are uptown picketing at Rockefeller Center; Jon Stewart may or may not be keeping his own writers afloat with out-of-pocket payments for the next two weeks.

Barack Obama, meanwhile, has weighed in with statement in support of the writers:

“I stand with the writers. The Guild’s demand is a test of whether corporate media corporations are going to give writers a fair share of the wealth their work creates or continue concentrating profits in the hands of their executives. I urge the producers to work with the writers so that everyone can get back to work.”