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   From: paul@harper.net   
      
   On 9 Oct 2006 13:13:07 -0700, "videonovels"   
    wrote:   
      
   >During the course of a lifetime, the average American makes 2 to 3   
   >million (ages 20 to 70).  JMS is not really doing any better than the   
   >rest of us.  The only difference is JMS made his 2-3 million during ~10   
   >years of writing Murder She Wrote and Babylon 5, and the other 40 he's   
   >basically unemployed.   
   >   
   >So to look at JMS as "rich" is a mistake.  His lifetime income is no   
   >better than the rest of us.   
      
   It is a pack of disingenuous lies to try to paint what Straczynski has   
   earned as "average".   
      
   2-3 million during his B5 days. More during his Murder She Wrote days,   
   and a damn sight more now and in the future if his much-hyped big-time   
   debut takes off.   
      
   Paul (who has no problems with big earners, by the way, but likes to   
   call a spade a spade, and Straczynski hasn't been a "struggling   
   artist" [or any sort of artist for that matter, but that's a different   
   discussion] for some years now).   
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