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Writer's Strike Front Lines

Sights and sounds from the Writer's Strike's first 36 hours:

* Frappucino machines are spotted outside the set of America's Next Top Model, reports Conde Nast Portfolio.
* Talk Show with Spike Feresten writer Tom Johnson broke his leg Monday outside Sunset Gower Studios. An angry Honda Element driver drove through a crowd of writers, witnesses said. "The guy basically said, Get the (expletive) out of the way,' and then hit the gas and just plowed into this guy," said witness/show writer Linda Berston, according to KABC-TV.
* Desperate Housewives writers chanted "Marcia's cross, and so are we!", "Unfair. Unjust. Marc Cherry is with us!", and "We write the story-a for Eva Longoria!" (Reuters)
* Ellen DeGeneres skipped her monologue on Ellen. "I want to say I love my writers," DeGeneres said. "In honor of them today, I'm not going to do a monologue. I support them and hope that they get everything they're asking for. And I hope it works out soon." (Associated Press)
* Jay Leno passed out three boxes of Krispy Kreme doughnuts to Tonight Show writers outside NBC studios in Burbank. The leather-jacketed Leno declared them "writers' food," the LA Times reports.
* Pushing Daisies is one of few scripted primetime shows still in production. (WSJ)

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