LOS ANGELES — While Hollywood celebrates the end of strikes by writers and actors, the multibillion-dollar economic toll on everyone from crew members to caterers will take months to tally.
Striking writers and actors slashed spending, burned through savings and piled up debt to survive. Dry cleaners and other service industries laid off staff, while prop houses sold inventory or shuttered.
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