On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:58:41 -0500, Tee Jay
<terrynospamjoyce@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I am retired auto worker. I took less per hour to have good health care
>and good retirement benefits. Management takes more per year with higher
>salary and stock benefits.
> Stars take more upfront. Writers take more in residuals. Is is all a
>matter of bargaining and choice.
This is a great observation, but I wanted to clarify one point about
your second paragraph: "Stars take more upfront. Writers take more
in residuals." (This is true in comparative pro****tions, but it's not
what I'm talking about.)
"Stars take more upfront. Writers take . . . "
You seem to imply in differentiating between "stars" and "writers"
that when you say "stars" you mean "actors" (in general). I gotta
stipulate that this is a false analogy. Actors in general, directors
in general and writers in general are all in the same boat regarding
the residuals situation. Only a miniscule percentage of artists in
each part of the field -- actors, writers and directors -- are stars.
The rest in each field are the rank-and-file middle-to-lower-class
craftspeople that have the most at stake in these guild strikes over
the next nine months or so. Or to use one comparison -- very few
actors are at the level of stardom of a Kelsey Grammer or a Bruce
Willis (to grab an example each from TV and movies), the same goes for
directing (James Burrows on TV, Martin Scorcese in the movies) or
writing (Amy Sherman-Palladino and Aaron Sorkin on TV, Paul Haggis in
the movies).
IOW, "star" is not interchangeable with "actor."
-- 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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