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So you still want to do the show business, and you think that you got what it takes,

I mean you really got a rap and be all at, but prepare yourself for the breaks, check it out.

This week on the business, in a town where actors are more likely to wait tables than wait in the wings,

how do you define a working actor?

That's the central question in our lively conversation

with actors Ron Livingston and Ned Vaughn.

How Screen Actors Guild members answer that question

may determine if there's a strike.

Plus, a look at what's popping

at this year's Show West movie exhibitors conference.

But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan.

Go Nowhere, it's the Business from NPR.

Bob Yari was one of six producers credited in the making of the 2005 film Crash.

Even though it won Best Picture that year, he didn't get an Oscar, because the Academy rules state that only two producers are eligible.

Yari sued, but lost his case last week when the California Appeals Court determined they really didn't have a say in the rules of private organizations.

Nevertheless, the legal train wreck over Crash continues.

Kathy Shulman was one of the producers who did get a statue for Crash,

and she sued Yari, claiming he fired her after she was awarded producer credit,

but he wasn't.

Yari is also suing Shulman, alleging she embezzled money while in his employ.

Meanwhile, crash director Paul

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