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Seinfeld was renewed last week after supporting actors Michael Richards, Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus dropped their salary demands from $1 million per episode (what Jerry earns) and settled for $600,000 for next season's 22 episodes (up from $160,000 a show). Apart from the unquantifiable attributes--timing, delivery, physical funniness--what exactly do you have to do to earn that kind of dough? Herewith, stats of last week's discount-priced program...
Jerry Seinfeld ("Jerry") 15 101 587 Jason Alexander ("George") 13 62 568 Julia Louis-Dreyfus ("Elaine") 8 36 322 Michael Richards ("Kramer...
...this contrast -- too many side trips into bathroom humor -- but it does feed the stars enough decent patter to keep them ticking in their disparate ways." Reitman does provide two nice casting surprises: the formerly hot Nastassja Kinski as the sweetly scheming mom and Seinfeld?s Julia Louis-Dreyfus, crisped up with a chicness Elaine can only dream about, as Crystal?s sharply skeptical wife. Still, says Sheppard, "One can?t quite escape the feeling that no one involved in Fathers? Day (which is yet another Americanized version of a French farce) is quite working to full capacity. As long...
...acquiring PanEnergy, a Houston marketer of natural gas, for $7.7 billion. "For the past 10 years, we've been running our company as if our customers already had a choice of power suppliers," says Richard Priory, Duke's chief operating officer. The company recently teamed up with Louis Dreyfus, a commodities trading house, to create a venture that will manage utilities like the city-owned electricity supplier in Dover, Delaware. Awaiting local approval is a program to help make the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the country's largest municipal utility, more competitive and profitable...
Yankel Rosenbaum's murder is unlikely to cause American Jews to realign their traditionally liberal political allegiance in the way that the Dreyfus trial in France did in the 19th century. Perhaps it should. Jews, along with any group of people that prides itself upon rationality and intelligence, must reconsider its allegiance to groups and peoples who, in the most unabashed manner, do not seek to reciprocate the Jew's embrace...