{"id":10662,"date":"2006-05-04T19:59:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T00:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/04\/too-much\/"},"modified":"2006-05-04T19:59:34","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T00:59:34","slug":"too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/04\/too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Too much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top end pay for an A-list movie star is one fat check. Jim Carrey banks nearly 25 million for a major studio flick. Yes the man is funny, but a recent articles asks are he and <a href=\"httphttp:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060504\/od_nm\/leisure_starsalaries_dc_5\">his cohorts worth it?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my thinking on actors, movie stars or otherwise: they are monkeys. Some look better in makeup or tights, some have bigger portfolios, but scratch away the nose job and the Versace and it&#8217;s usually an average person with a personality deficit in an extraordinary situation. Anyone can be an actor; there&#8217;s very little intrinsic skill necessary. Doubt this assertion? Make a beeline around 7AM for a train station and watch people wait for a NYC inbound. Misery &#8212; and other words &#8212; comes to mind, and oh there&#8217;s plenty more on their faces. Yet each one of those people piles on the train five days a week, goes to work, and convinces their boss they love the gig. Because if they miss that mark, it&#8217;s a long walk back to Jersey. And it smells bad.<\/p>\n<p>Considering most people run this ruse for thirty or forty years without a hitch, I ask again, do stars have better game than the average commuter? When it&#8217;s a matter of surrvival, most everyone has the &#8220;gift&#8221;. The only difference with a professional &#8220;actor&#8221; is they might play more than one role in their lifetime. Or not. Read: Geena Davis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top end pay for an A-list movie star is one fat check. Jim Carrey banks nearly 25 million for a major studio flick. Yes the man is funny, but a recent articles asks are he and his cohorts worth it? Here&#8217;s my thinking on actors, movie stars or otherwise: they are monkeys. Some look better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}