Lawless and Disorderly

Backstage: On May 14, Mike Hodge was in a mournful mood. "I am totally, totally, totally shocked," the president of the Screen Actors Guild's New York division said just hours after he—and pretty much everyone else who owns a television—learned NBC would not pick up the series "Law & Order" for a record-breaking 21st season. "For those of us who work on that show and count on that show for jobs and residuals, it's almost like a death in the family."