Thank you for your substantive comment, but, I didn't write it. It's a flyer that's being handed out in Jersey City (in the NYC area).
I just thought that it was ironic that the ultra-rich film moguls -- who always seem to support tax and spend candidates -- don't mind a little union busting to make a couple of extra dollars out of a film.
Look what the top stars make. Look what the studio executives make. They really need to cut costs at the level of the US hourly worker?
"Thank you for your substantive comment,"
Irony, right?
"but, I didn't write it. It's a flyer that's being handed out in Jersey City (in the NYC area)."
Friend, you should have told us that. If you did, and I missed, my bad reading.
"I just thought that it was ironic that the ultra-rich film moguls -- who always seem to support tax and spend candidates -- don't mind a little union busting to make a couple of extra dollars out of a film."
They're not union busters at all. They're in unions. And the craft unions would never demand that a star not cross a line...because they do make movies in Hollywood, and their members do work on those.
I have no sympathy for unions, especially Hollywood unions--and I'm a member of one.
"Look what the top stars make. Look what the studio executives make. They really need to cut costs at the level of the US hourly worker?"
I don't know what you're saying here--that Tom Cruise should be working for $19 an hour?
It doesn't work that way. It's a rarefied field, with only a relative handful of stars that can put fannies in the seats. It's not like injection molding, say, or driving a cab, where the operators are interchangeable by the thousands.
Okay, now I'm waiting for people to step up and say, I could do what Russell Crowe does--for HALF the money!
Thing about Hollywood...when they hire above-the-line talent, it is NEVER about the money. If they want Tom Cruise, and he'll do it for $20 million, it's not like Val Kilmer can step in and say, I'll do it for $5 million and the execs will jump up and say, We just saved $15 million!
No, they'll say, Crap, we just lost Tom Cruise.