Actor and screenwriter Quinn Redeker is interviewed by NBC News correspondent Jinah Kim while picketing with hundreds of writers, actors and supporters in front of the NBC Studio in Burbank, Calif., Friday afternoon, Nov. 16, 2007. Redeker is most widely known for his roles on the daytime soap operas The Young and the Restless and Days of our Lives, and has been nominated twice for a Daytime Emmy Award. Redeker also co-wrote the 1978 film The Deer Hunter, which won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture. (Photo by Rachelle Hacmac/Brooks Institute, ©2007)

Actor and screenwriter Quinn Redeker is interviewed by NBC News correspondent Jinah Kim while picketing with hundreds of writers, actors and supporters in front of the NBC Studio in Burbank, Calif., Friday afternoon, Nov. 16, 2007. Redeker is most widely known for his roles on the daytime soap operas The Young and the Restless and Days of our Lives, and has been nominated twice for a Daytime Emmy Award. Redeker also co-wrote the 1978 film The Deer Hunter, which won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture. (Photo by Rachelle Hacmac/Brooks Institute, ©2007)