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   From: forrest@lmcg.wisc.edu   
      
   "Alison Hopkins"  writes:   
      
   > > The contracts the actors signed for the fifth season were options on   
   > > the same contracts they signed in the first year.  No one was   
   > > "screwed".  No one had their contract changed.   
   >   
   > Wrong. These were new contracts.   
      
   No, you are wrong.  The contracts that were signed were the contracts   
   that the cast had signed extensions to (which Claudia didn't do) which   
   were options on the original five year contracts.  It's ridiculous to   
   assert otherwise.   
      
   > I think you have not read my other posts. I state those things I was   
   > told, at the time, by cast members and staff.   
      
   Then either your recollection, or your interpretation of what was told   
   to you, or the understanding of those cast members and staff, must be   
   mistaken.   
      
   Otherwise it makes no sense.  Why was it such a big deal that Claudia   
   didn't sign an extension?  Why was it so important to get the deal   
   with TNT finished before those extensions ran out?  Why would TNT bid   
   on a property if they didn't know the actors were under contract?   
   There is no logical sense to your position.   
      
   Which isn't to say that the cast might not feel that the contracts had   
   changed.  I would certainly feel that way if I was suddenly going to   
   get less money for the same work, but there is a difference between   
   the contract changing and the circumstances under which the contract   
   is executed changing.   
      
   --   
   Dan   
      
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