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   From: forrest@lmcg.wisc.edu   
      
   al2048@aol.com writes:   
      
   > Even if JMS and John Copeland couldn't take pay cuts because of guild   
   > rules, JMS and Copeland still could have given the actors some extra   
   > pay out of JMS's and Copeland's own pockets.   
   >   
   > On one episode of "LA Law," Arnie Becker reveals that he gave his   
   > secretary Roxanne a pay raise out of his own pocket. JMS and Copeland   
   > could have done a similar thing.   
      
   Am I reading this correctly?  Are you actually comparing what a fictional   
   character did on a TV show to what someone might do in real life?   
      
   In any case, take the $15,000 JMS got per script and do the math.  Tell me   
   what would be left after taxes, his own personal expenses (agent, publicist,   
   secretary, etc.), and a reasonable wage for his services, then divide it   
   among over a dozen cast members, and tell me what they would get.   
      
   It's always easy to spend somebody else's money.   
      
   --   
   Dan   
      
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