We, the actors, have to help these depressed, desperate people and try to revive their hopes.

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Mr. DIAMOND: At that point, I think we will have a heavy responsibility to work with the actors in the region, and all of them, including Iran, to try to restrain the actors, to try to help different communities to be buffered from the violence, to slow the flow of arms into the conflict.

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Yet, even from 1980 we have data attesting to relatively comparable pay, even considering innate productivity and discipline of the actors.

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And, if that's the argument, then on what moral high ground do Latinos stand to also push -- as we should -- for Latino actors and actresses to be considered for generic and mainstream roles that could have gone to white actors?

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