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Budgeting for Talent: How to Plan for Cast and Crew Costs

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Managing cast and crew expenses resembles a complex puzzle where pieces keep changing. Producers must balance cost savings against professional expertise when choosing between union and non-union talent. The budget must include agent fees, usually 10% of the performer's rate, plus union-required pension and health payments.

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Zugzwang as a pole dance upward unto heaven

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A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. For balance purposes, I limit the number of voyeurs in the maze, otherwise it can enter a deadlock where there's only voyeurs but no one for them to watch. Voyeurs work differently, they have sex by watching a couple have sex. So what did she want then?

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