>>Have movie star 'salaries' become excessive in general<<

It's not just movie stars.  CEO's and sports stars are also highly overpaid.  The wealthy in this country get richer while the working class struggles.

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>>Major League Baseball salaries are unbelieveable<<

It's more than unbelievable -- it's obscene!  I am a big baseball fan yet I have started feeling guilty about going to see major league games.  I really hate being part of this mess.

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>>I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO RESPECT FOR THE RICH AND FAMOUS<<

What is it that attracts you to a forum about show business?

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>>Brilliant observation<<

Every so often I get lucky.

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If Julia Roberts is paid 20 million for a movie it is because her movies domestically and internationally make many multiples of that.

Julia Roberts does not magically or Satanically determine what her per picture income is.

Interesting about her...she's no great beauty, she's not a "hottie", she's not 24. She's has a real girl next door, accessible quality about her..and I think that says something about how the views of women have changed.

It's not just movie stars.  CEO's and sports stars are also highly overpaid.  The wealthy in this country get richer while the working class struggles.>>

Along those lines, my sister had to take a pay cut from American Airlines a few years back only to find out that the CEO and his cronies got a big pay raise.  She earns...maybe $50,000 a year as flight crew while the big executives earned in the 50 to 60 million range.  Do the math...do you honestly believe that work that much harder than she does.

I think it's a sad state of affairs when celebirites earn that much while school teachers earn barely enough to live on.  Yes, you can say that they generate that much money in box office successes or in ballpark revenue, but you can also say that teachers (or anyone else for that matter) is able to provide a great service yet they can barely get by.

I think this country is in bad need of a change.

 People should be outraged, but the Republicans and Christian right have convinced them that gay marriage poses a greater threat than these crooks.>>

I'll call you a radical any day <s>!

I agree with you regarding CEO pay.  Even when companies are losing money for their investors the CEOs still earn outrageous salaries.  Shouldn't they be penalized?

When my husband worked for the corporate offices of a small retailer, the stock price dropped so miserably that the shares were not worth the price of toilet paper (not even the really cheap kind that comes in big packages).  However, the CEO (who I actually really like...but anyway)was asked to leave the company and he was given a balloon payment of somewhere around 10 million.  We, on the other hand, lost tens of thousands of dollars on paper.  I think at one point we were worth 2 million on paper and then we went down to a few thousand or so. 

I do believe that the pay structure in this country is grossly unfair.  Now let's go do something about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>Here in Louisville there is a campaign called Keep Louisville Weird, which is a movement to do exactly that, buying from local vendors<<

Excellent!  Something similar is starting here in Saint Paul.  We don't have a cool name like you do, but give us time.  :-)

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I think that it has something to with likeability. I call it the "would I have her over to dinner factor."

Would I have Gwyneth to dinner: Probabably not...she's on a very specialized diet I barely and she seems to be a little to artsy to be fun.

Would I have Dakota over: Well, aside from the fact that she's 12, and can't drink and has to go to bed by 8, I think not...she's very precocious, and such a goody too shoes, she seems kind of prissy.

Would I have Angelina over: Well, aside from the fact that she is frightening gorgeous, she's just too much into humanitarian ideals for me to feel that she'd like just a good dumb joke.

Now Julia...she'd kick back, have a beer, laugh so hard she snorted through her nose, but she'd also make a great girlfriend.