On 5 May 2007 08:25:27 -0700, Karen <karenrath@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On May 4, 11:33 pm, Cory <onyx...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Here, with GG, the show isn't shutting down because one of the main
>> characters suddenly up and left, a la 7H. It's shutting down because
>> the network doesn't want to pay some of its cast what they are truly
>> worth (Yeah, I'm still pissed...). Nobody left early. I personally
>> believe nobody WANTED to leave the show. I just think everyone wanted
>> to be paid what they are worth and the network didn't feel like
>> negotiating in good faith.
>
>I read the discussion here recently about whether or not tv actors
>should receive such high salaries, and I am now adding my opinion that
>absolutely NO ONE ***EVER*** deserves the obscene amounts that some
>actors make per episode. I have absolutely no sympathy whatsoever for
>LG and AB if they are now sorry their show is canceled because the CW
>refused to give them still more than the huge amount they made. Such
>blatantly greedly people are so lacking in character that I can only
>feel that there is some justice in canceling the show. Unfortunately,
>many others, including lower paid guest actors and crew, and anyone
>who is not paid too much, will suffer because of the greed and
>arrogance of these women who have such big egos that they can't be
>grateful for the wealth they already have.
I couldn't disagree more, Karen. Whatever the Girls made this season
and were currently asking for, they're worth it *because the network
and studio make a gazillion times more money than that off of the
Gals' work.* Even a $2 or $3 million dollar salary per year for an
actor of Lauren's stature is a drop in the bucket compared to the
hundreds of millions of dollars that Warners makes off just the DVD,
syndication and foreign sales revenue streams alone.
Saying that they aren't worth it, that they shouldn't be asking for it
because it's just greed yadayadayada is just anti-elitist arrogance,
IMO.
-- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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