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...this one day's work. That would be the equivalent today of about $100,000. And I said, you know what, there's no way. I figured it was going to be a one-shot, so I just did it myself. Theoretically, you have to join the Screen Actors Guild, but they give you a one-shot thing, so you can do it without joining. But then, I was recently asked to play a general in The General's Daughter, which I did. And so I had to join the damn Screen Actor's Guild anyway...
...friend put it last week, "a measure of how far we've come"? When I was growing up, who was or wasn't gay was a subject no one touched. I remember the bachelor real estate agent who cared for the antique linens as a member of the Altar Guild. Years later, I asked my mother if Tom's private life ever got discussed. And she, who by 1980 routinely talked about her gay bridge partners, said, "Absolutely...
...N.A.A.C.P.'s complaint focused largely on minority characters. But the casting disparity was the good news, compared with that in the creative and executive ranks. Nearly all the executives who can approve series are white, and a 1998 report by the Writers Guild of America found that 92% of all black TV writers work for mostly black-cast sitcoms. And again, that's the good news. At least there are black-cast sitcoms to be segregated on, an option other minorities don't have...
...audience. In June 1998 she set up a website to sell a download of her book for $12.95, under the pseudonym M.J. Rose. Then she began offering a printed version. Lip Service sold 1,500 copies online, and was picked up by the Doubleday Book Club and Literary Guild. It went on to sell more than 12,000 hard copies by September, and Shapiro became the poster girl for a new phenomenon--e-publishing as a cottage industry...
...five writers, mostly twentysomethings aspiring to work on sitcoms, are supposed to compose 20 questions a day. They make $1,500 a week and, when the show became a hit, tried to join the Writers Guild, before discovering that game-show writers in the union make only $1,100. Then they considered forming their own union until they found that there were lots of people who could write multiple-choice questions...