60,000 people were due to walk off the job, the studios did offer up an improved deal for those workers. whether it is a good enough deal, those workers are still going to have to decide, still going to have to vote on whether they re going to accept the new terms. until they do, the threat of that historic strike still looms. but that is turning out to be part of the relevant backdrop for this truly bizarre and terrible story that we all woke up to this morning that nobody in the country seems to be able to avoid talking about all day long. by now you have seen the headlines. yesterday on the set of a western filming in new mexico, the actor alec baldwin fired a gun that was supposed to be a prop in a scene. the resulting shot killed the film s cinematographer, 42-year-old woman named ha len au hutchins, considered to be a rising star in her field. again, she was the cinematographer. the film s director was injured in this incident. he has since been released from