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Hollywood Boulevard, that is. The crowd of WGA members - plus a scattering of SAG representatives - heard a couple of tunes from Alicia Keys and then it was time to march west for a few blocks. I'm guessing that there were 2,000 marchers, many of them wearing the red strike T-shirts and "Pencils Down" buttons. My favorite participant was a white German shepherd who had a WGA picket sign that read "We won't be licked!" (Variety's Dave McNary spotted several homeless people with improvised signs, one reading: "Bums support Writers.") WGA President Patric Verrone, actress Sandra Oh and City Councilman Eric Garcetti were all speechifying.

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