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   From: me@privacy.net   
      
   On 8 Oct 2006 19:08:53 -0700, al2048@aol.com wrote:   
      
   > jblum@zip.com.au wrote:   
   >> And just to make it even clearer -- if I remember the story correctly,   
   >> JMS was paid guild minimum fees for his scripts.  (Which is the exact   
   >> opposite of the norm for a showrunner, who tend to get more.)  And if   
   >> I'm reading the WGA's agreements correctly, that minimum fee is the   
   >> *same* for syndication and cable.  So he couldn't take a pay cut for   
   >> his scripts if he wanted to.   
   >>   
   >> I have no idea whether he took a pay cut to his producers' fees or not.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Heh, good joke.   
      
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