Strike May Affect Oscars

The Academy Awards ceremony is set for Feb. 24, but now that the writers' strike has become a reality, it may well take some of the luster off the golden proceedings, although the writers and producers have agreed to return to the bargaining table Nov. 26 but the final outcome is anyone's guess.

So just how will the strike impact the broadcast if the worst happens and it drags on into early 2008? Does the Academy have contingency plans if the strike muzzles the show's writers and host?

"I make no comment on the strike at all," says Gil Cates, the show's producer and chairman of the negotiating committee for the DGA. But Cates is more than happy to discuss the show, although if he has anything special up his sleeve, he's not telling -- as usual.

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