MOVIES - Feb. 7, 1989

About 50 members of the Screen Extras Guild picketed Monday outside Universal Studios to protest the use of non-union extras in the Warren Beatty film, “Dick Tracy.” The pickets began their protest outside a studio gate on Barham Boulevard last week, when production on the Beatty feature got under way, said a union organizer, Jerome Blackwell. “We will continue for each day they shoot,” Blackwell said. “As long as we (picket), they will be slowed at least 20 minutes a day.” Blackwell estimated the “Dick Tracy” production schedule will mean jobs for non-union extras for the next 80 days. Neither Beatty nor Barry Osborne, the film’s executive producer, was immediately available for comment.