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Post by nas on Mar 18, 2018 23:57:57 GMT
@ jessielee
please don't get me started on the subject of the insanely high per episode $$$ t.v. celebrities make!
as a middle class, [mostly] single woman I worked my butt off for 25+ years and if I totalled all my W-2's I don't think they'd add up to $800,000! 25 years of driving back and forth to work everyday, and putting up with a whole lot of bureaucratic b.s. and headaches... (even if I calculated my income in "today's dollars" it wouldn't total $800,000!) that's the real world, folks!
and then there's the likes of MH who make $800k per to crank out an episode a week for 24 weeks (and some of those episodes really suck!)
people will argue that actors/actresses are "specialized", and they deserve their salaries...
sorry, but I beg to differ! 😠 most of these "specialized" people wouldn't/couldn't make it in the real world...
There! I've said it!
nas
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Post by ballerina on Mar 19, 2018 0:33:57 GMT
nas I concur vehemently with your post I do not believe whatsoever these celebrities deserve their salaries, and you are correct most of them would never survive in the world outside Hollyweird.
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Post by Llyan (Admin) on Mar 19, 2018 0:58:41 GMT
If I'm honest with myself I have to admit I wouldn't say no to that kind of paycheck per week/episode so I can't criticize those offered and accepting it.
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Post by nas on Mar 19, 2018 1:55:33 GMT
no need to be apologetic about your feelings, NewBe...
in spite of what I wrote, would I trade in my 25+ years of working my ass off if someone offered me $800,000 a week for 24 weeks? (quick math: 24 weeks = $19.2 mil) damn tootin' I would!! only a fool would turn down a deal like that!!
if I'm honest with myself, I'd pull a CdP and quit after the first year!
nas
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Post by Hari Seldon on Mar 19, 2018 16:08:37 GMT
no need to be apologetic about your feelings, NewBe...
in spite of what I wrote, would I trade in my 25+ years of working my ass off if someone offered me $800,000 a week for 24 weeks? (quick math: 24 weeks = $19.2 mil) damn tootin' I would!! only a fool would turn down a deal like that!!
if I'm honest with myself, I'd pull a CdP and quit after the first year!
nas Wouldn't that be more of a Sasha Alexander? CdP stuck around something like 7 years.
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Post by nas on Mar 19, 2018 22:26:16 GMT
@ Hari
🤔 hmm, let's think about this for a minute: 2 years like Sasha - or 7 years like Côte? I'd be perfectly happy with the $19.2 million, and call it quits after 1 year! (or 24 weeks to be more precise... 😉)
ahhhh, ain't dreaming a wonderful thing? 😀
nas
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Post by Llyan (Admin) on Mar 19, 2018 23:35:34 GMT
@ Hari
🤔 hmm, let's think about this for a minute: 2 years like Sasha - or 7 years like Côte? I'd be perfectly happy with the $19.2 million, and call it quits after 1 year! (or 24 weeks to be more precise... 😉)
ahhhh, ain't dreaming a wonderful thing? 😀
nas How much did Cote make per episode her 1st year? Wasn't it something like $125,000? If it was 125,000 and 24 episodes she made $3,000.000 in Season 3. Out of that her management company got a percentage. The IRS and the state of California got a healthy share.
I have no clue what Sasha made (or any of them made) in Season 1.
The problem with leaving after one season is loving your job and not wanting to leave.
Look what happened to David Caruso when he walked away from NYPD:Blue after one season. He spent years in the nether and no one would hire him. He must have had some pretty tough rules when he got hired as the lead in CSI:Miami.
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Post by nas on Mar 20, 2018 1:02:59 GMT
I like this game NewBe! 😊
I have no idea what the salaries from the past seasons were either...
so I'll just stick with my "dream salary" of $800k per episode ($19.2 mil/1 year)...
assuming I pay about 39% in personal income tax, that would leave me with roughly $11.7 million...
re leaving a job I love after just 1 season? with that kind of $$$ I'd go find something else to love - like sitting on a tropical beach somewhere and drinking margaritas and/or piña coladas... (it's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it!)
hey, I said I was dreaming, didn't I?
about David Caruso leaving NYPD: Blue after just 1 season: I do believe his "problem" came from him getting a head so big it wouldn't fit thru a doorway, and that made him a "difficult hire"... that, and the guy was just a little weird, IMveryHO...
nas
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