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LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Jeopardy!" writer Andrew Price lives in a modest home, makes mortgage and car payments and describes himself and fellow scribes as "meat and potatoes people." Movie art director Sean Duggan, 38, rarely wears a tux and leads a life that's more regular than regal. "When they roll out the red carpet, they call me to do it," he says.
To most of the world, Hollywood is all about glitz and glamor and beautiful people _ some behaving badly. But Price and Duggan belong to what might be called the real Hollywood: its industrial other half, where folks live paycheck to paycheck, drive Toyotas and stay out of trouble.
The current Writers Guild of America strike has cast a rare, international spotlight on this workaday culture of behind-the-camera jobs _ known as "below the line" in production parlance.
Most WGA members lead far from glamorous lives, and seldom earn beyond five figures each year. Yet like their colleagues who build sets, apply makeup and lay cable, they're the ones who keep Hollywood cranking the content. Or not.
Well, their salary is NOT the fault of the Movie Stars or others; WGA is a Union, so blame your union rep when he doesn't do his job. Moderator cut: OT
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