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Your item on the amount of money earned by TV's Judge Judy Sheindlin quipped that she is free from the duties of TV-show hosts and regular judges [People, Jan. 13]. Another thing she does not have to do is decide any cases of real significance. It is disturbing that a TV jurist is paid $25 million a year--or about the same as the combined salaries of 160 federal appeals-court judges. Vincent N. Palladino New York City...
...that Her Majesty earned far less than certain commoners last year. Harry Potter author J.K. ROWLING was the top female earner in Britain in 2002, raking in $77 million, six times as much as the Queen. The newspaper ranked the women by annual salary, not accumulated wealth. JUDGE JUDY SHEINDLIN doesn't have to interview world leaders or tiptoe through blood-spattered crime scenes or try to contain Regis Philbin. Despite this, she will now earn more than most other television personalities, including Katie Couric, Kelly Ripa and anyone on CSI. She has just signed a deal for approximately...
JUDGE JUDY SHEINDLIN Shows who's boss in ratings and negotiates richer contract. You got a problem with that...
...Sheindlin was tapped for the show by Larry Lyttle, president of Big Ticket Television, who argues that she is an antidote to America's not-so-rewarding experiences with the judicial system. "We broke the proscenium of the courtroom world with the O.J. trial, and when we pierced that proscenium we saw stuff we hated," he says. "When Judy showed the audience that she was decisive, that was the elixir for all the malaise that we'd suffered...
...must think there's a lot of pain out there, because he's also producing Judge Joe Brown. Brown is the only TV judge who continues to sit actively on the bench (he's using some of the vacation he accumulated over eight years to tape his show). Like Sheindlin, he rolls his eyes and yells at the punks in his video court ("Don't call the court 'Dude,'" he tells one youth). Brown, 51, grew up in South Central Los Angeles and has the fervor of a missionary, spouting buzz words like "com-mun-i-ty." His producers, like...