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   From: fn62@dial.pipex.com   
      
   "Paul Harper"  wrote in message   
   news:bvfli2tj344688lcrhvfhsk9rrarik02ci@4ax.com...   
   > 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".   
      
   I'm so glad you saved me the bother, this latest of Troy's was boggling.   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   I wonder what he got for Spiderman. And Captain Power, and the books, of   
   course.   
      
   >   
   > 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).   
      
   Quite.   
      
   Ali   
      
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