Welcome back and happy December. I’m starting to put together the WIH year-end list of Hollywood’s Heroes and Villains, plus the coveted Who Won the Year award, so if you’ve got smart ideas, email me! (No pushy publicists, please.)

Tonight I’ve got a bizarre item out of the representation world, and a column by labor expert and WIH contributor Jonathan Handel on two developments impacting the much-feared Writers Guild strike. As always, if you’re not yet a Puck member or this email was forwarded to you, click here to sign up or gift a membership to your most promising employee.

But first…

• Have you been fired yet?: We’ve reached the rats-scrambling-on-the-Titanic portion of the 2022 media industry meltdown, with layoffs/hiring freezes announced this week at...

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