The 160,000 performers and broadcaster that make up the membership of the SAG-AFTRA union weren't messing around.  Over 97-percent of membership voted to pre-authorize a vote, as the union starts contract negotiations with Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.  All of this comes amid  the ongoing Writer's Guild strike that's now in it's second month ... and if both actors and writers end up on strike, Hollywood for all intents and purposes will be closed down.

Miranda Banks is a chair in Loyola Marymount's Department of Film, Television and Media Studies.