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...Studio CEOs, and especially CFOs, will note that the past three winning movies were made for peanuts, with weekend grosses that were greater or nearly as much as their respective budgets; The Hangover cost $35 million to produce, The Proposal $40 million. By next weekend, the Bullock film should outearn the Denzel Washington-John Travolta thriller, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, whose budget was about $100 million. By then Bullock's film will also exceed the theatrical earnings of Duplicity, the comeback film of Julia Roberts, Bullock's main rival over the past 15 years as Hollywood...
...plans. Thanks to a generous cost of living index scheme that would be extremely rare in private industry -- a plan that the U.S. Congress designed mainly for its own benefit -- many former federal officeholders actually make more for not working than they ever did on the job. Some even outearn incumbents in the offices they once held. "Congressional pensions are typically two to three times more generous than those in the private sector," says David Keating, who heads a watchdog group called the National Taxpayers Union. Much the same could be said of presidential pensions. This year, for instance, former...
...addition to service on the Evening News. That program will be expanded from 30 minutes a night to 45 when Walters comes aboard, and ABC affiliates will also expand their lead-in local news shows to 45 minutes. Yet no matter how her salary is apportioned, Walters will still outearn CBS's Walter Cronkite, NBC's John Chancellor and ABC's Reasoner. Each earns about $400,000 a year. She will also be hauling in more cash than many of the megastars of the entertainment side of the medium...
...warm puppy," says Linke, who fully expects him to soon outearn his other top client, Andy Griffith. "I figure another year of Jim doing Gomer, then on to Broadway. Then back to Hollywood for the movies. I've got another Al Jolson on my hands. You see how in his act I got him dropping down on one knee like Jolie? He hasn't got that voice throb yet, but it's coming, it's coming...
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