Feb 26 2009
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Celebrities, I feel SO BAD for YOU.
I feel a little torn. But maybe if stars didn’t make quite so much more than everybody else, we wouldn’t all wish we were them and would hopefully feel a little bit better about who we really are. But being an actor is, I assume, kind of like a lottery. Most end up being career waiters while trying to get a break. Philosophical and moral issues aside, it makes sense to rework the system a little bit. Now if they’d stop making such expensive piles of steaming crap and made story and character the focus, money wouldn’t be quite so tight, hmmm?HOLLYWOOD stars are starting to feel the economic pinch. “Salaries are being cut. Unless you’re Will Smith [above], you are not going to get $20 million a movie anymore,” said an insider. To make matters more meager, “back-end” deals - where a star or big-name director would get a cut of the gross - “are dead. Those deals are not being offered to anyone. Not [even] Steven Spielberg. It’s, ‘Here’s your salary and go home.’ There is no negotiation between stars and the movie studios anymore. The studios make an offer. If the star says no, the studio says, ‘We’ll find someone else.’ “
[NYP]
Attention Celebrities: You can suck it.
