Our long national TV nightmare is...on hold?

Wired.com, 11.1.07
by John Scott Lewinski

Successful screenwriter and Hollywood curmudgeon William Goldman (Princess Bride, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid)is famous for this simple analysis of Hollywood trends: "Nobody knows anything." Goldman was referring to the inability of producers and executives to predict what projects may or may not prove successful. But, these days those same three words succinctly sum up the conflicting rumors of the looming writer's strike.

It's now about a half-hour after midnight, Nov. 1. The ghostly echoes of Halloween, 2007 are fading into The Witching Hour for show-biz scriptors. All over Hollywood, cellphones, Blackberries texts and e-mails are piling up like discarded trick or treat wrappers as writers, producers, actors and anyone else employed by the entertainment industry want to know who's coming to work tomorrow. More