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   From: fn62@dial.pipex.com   
      
   "Daniel Forrest"  wrote in message   
   news:6a64er7thu.fsf@yoda.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.   
      
    Well, I was backstage, as I have said repeatedly, and was told many   
   things by many and several people. And then there are the set visits, of   
   course. What are your sources, by the way?   
      
   >   
   >> 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.   
      
   Right. So all of us are wrong and you are right. OK. As has been said,   
   people will believe what they choose to believe. This may be based on   
   evidence, or it may be based on supposition, of course.   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   I do not speculate. It is not a position. It is what I was told. By cast   
   members and staff.   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
    Interesting choice of semantics there.   
      
   Ali   
      
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