Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
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If you can hire Tiliy Norwood to star in your action movie at 5% of Scarlett Johansson's fee, why not?
Not for nuthin’ but you can get any unknown actor for a pittance for their first big role. Dustin Hoffman, unknown at the time, was paid $17,000 for “The Graduate.” Jamie Lee Curtis got $8,000 for Halloween. Harrison Ford got $10,000 for the first Star Wars film.
Come back after this AI creature gets famous and has a following and see what the “salary” is.
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This is changing how XXX movies are made.
Cheesy as it is.
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John Henry was retired by the steam hammer and soon Uber drivers and engineers will follow. Why should actresses whose currency is their proportions be uniquely protected?
Imagine if the world no longer felt the need to pay vast sums to see rock stars, sports strs or movie stars (I remember seeing some of the world's most famous rock stars during the late 1960's and early 70's at NYC's small venue Filmore East at aa price a college pauper could afford (10 or 12 bucks, I think).
Jeff
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{{ Imagine if the world no longer felt the need to pay vast sums to see rock stars, sports strs or movie stars (I remember seeing some of the world's most famous rock stars during the late 1960's and early 70's at NYC's small venue Filmore East at aa price a college pauper could afford (10 or 12 bucks, I think). }}
I've noticed that people are complaining about WNBA ticket prices, now that the arenas are filling and the cost of attendance is way up.
intercst
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Imagine if the world no longer felt the need to pay vast sums to see rock stars, sports strs or movie stars A large percentage of a lot of movies made in recent years are CGI. May as well have CGI actors too. Ever see "Rogue One"? It had a pretty good rendering of 1977 Carrie Fisher.
Princess Leia Ending Scene - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) (HD)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yj31YCa3XwIf all the characters are CGI, then they only need to find someone like Mel Blanc to voice all of them. One paycheck, instead of dozens. Think of the profit enhancement!
Steve...has a theory about all the NCIS and CSI TV shows.
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remember seeing some of the world's most famous rock stars during the late 1960's and early 70's at NYC's small venue Filmore East at aa price a college pauper could afford (10 or 12 bucks, I think).
The internet inflation calculator tells me that 12 bucks in 1970 is equivalent to $100 today.
I would also note that today’s “big” shows are a far cry from what was offered in 1970, which was generally a group of 3 or 5 musicians standing on a stage playing songs, all of whose equipment could comfortably fit in a Ryder truck. Nowadays you can’t even get in the game unless you have multimedia television screens behind you, fireworks at the appropriate moments, and it takes a dozen fully loaded semis with scenery and set designs to go from city to city.
(Not to mention that several middlemen have inserted themselves into the ticket buying process; when I wanted a ticket I went to the box office and bought a piece of paper from the lady behind the cashier window. Nowadays it’s an app, controlled by some third party entity (for a fee) with laser scanners and bar codes at the door, and a resale market controlled by some *other* third party (for a fee) because computer bots have already filched all the available seats before the lady behind the window even opens for business.)
Yeah, it’s a different world. On the other hand, I didn’t have to stand behind 1,000 people holding up their phones and blocking the view for everyone behind them, so there’s that.
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And forget about Broadway shows. Anything worth seeing is priced in the stratosphere as every tourist to NYC feels it's obligatory to see one (or more) and the tickets are "capacity priced" using an algorithm designed to maximize profit. And every show HAS to have a "name brand" actor to headline - unless it's a revival (which makes plotting the profitability easy) or both. According to a producer I chatted with, "Broadway is not about art, but about profit - get used to it". So, in the past, we've flown to London for a long weekend, seen half a dozen plays and flown back for the price of seeing two plays in NYC. Some practice medical tourism, we practice cultural tourism.
Jeff
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And forget about Broadway shows. Anything worth seeing is priced in the stratosphere as every tourist to NYC feels it's obligatory to see one (or more) and the tickets are "capacity priced" using an algorithm designed to maximize profit.
Perhaps things have changed since we have last been,(admittedly 2019,) and TKTS is no longer relevant. Or perhaps if you are a must see THIS show NOW kind of person, rather than a late adopter like me. For me part of the fun was using the TKTS ticket booth in Time Square, right around the corner from our vacation rental. We would wait in the long line the first day and pick up whatever tickets were well placed for a show that sounded good, at roughly 50% off. After the matinee, we would take our ticket stubs in hand, which allowed us to jump to the front of that long line and buy tickets for the evening show. Lather, rinse, repeat the following days. We would see two shows a day, or shake it up with dinner at a jazz club, only grabbing tickets with great seats. Saw some shows this way I never would have thought to go to otherwise and have never been disappointed. They certainly were all worth seeing.
Pittsburgh is also a great place for musicals, though priced higher than NYC since no TKTS. Excellent museums, jazz galore, and ballet was great too. Stunning architecture, (in the city...bleak industrialism around it.) Our impression of Pittsburgh was a value priced NYC, if you ignore the difficulty in finding decent restaurants. We were there post Covid, however, and their serve staff had been decimated with many restaurants out of business. Spent 7 weeks exploring the place and will definitely go back.
IP,
adventurer
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"Pittsburgh is also a great place"
I visited Pittsburgh for 3 days, took in 2 MLB games ( Detroit vs Pittsburgh ). They
were night games, so had some time to explore in the daytime. Really liked it.
Could not believe how hilly it was. I wanted to rent a bicycle and take a shot at some
of the climbs that are part of an epic "race" called The Dirty Dozen, but it
wasn't meant to be. Stayed right downtown in a really cool old building, walked
and explored a bunch. Also did the Ducky Tour, which is a boat ride with a tour guide,
who points out the landmarks and historical sites. Was kind of hokey, as the guide
felt the need to constantly make lame jokes, but it was worth doing. The MLB baseball
park was one of the nicest I've been to, great sight lines. The Pitt fans were
very friendly. So far, the only MLB stadium I liked better was Fenway, in Boston.
Least favorite MLB stadium was Yankee Stadium in The Bronx.
