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Negotiators for the major studios and 11,500-member Writers Guild of America are working under a news blackout to beat a Wednesday deadline for the expiration of the union's current contract. Talks between the actors and producers are tentatively set to begin May 10. Although neither the writers nor actors have set a strike deadline, producers have been operating for months under the assumption that the union members will walk off the job if no settlement is reached when their contracts expire. Ironically, many industry-related businesses have been so busy in recent months that they have had little time to consider the prospect of a shutdown. That's what has kept things hopping, for the moment, for Schultz and others.