You can live pretty well in LA for 75k. You won't be a big baller or be able to afford the $200 lunches chichifoofoo stores but you can live ok. All of the big bucks are going to hack fly-by-night stars.
How much should talent make? Has Hollywood gotten so used to disposable shows and movies that the talent that makes the shows are disposable too? On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > i was listening to that show as well. interesting. A lot of listeners > responded the next day with disdain, basically saying how dare NPR try to > show sympathy for someone "only" making 75K a year. I get their point, but > it was about more than that--it was about how good actors--and those that > support them--have been hit hard too. And, I must say, 75K a year probably > doesn't earn one much of a living in L.A.! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:43:07 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [scifinoir2] article: Hollywood's new middleclass > > > > I was listening to public radio on the way home today, and there was an > actress (Beth Broderick) talking about how tough things had gotten in > Hollywood in the last couple of years. She said that due to Hollywood > signing on big name stars that they have resorted to cutting the salaries of > actors on the shows down to near scale wages. She used to make $300-500,000 > a year. Now for the same work (4-6 tv shows a year) she may pull in only > $70,000 a year! All of the money is going to the execs and the big name > stars. > > Here is the article: > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106366033 > > > > > -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
