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: This equal pay issue is not going away any
: time soon in the entertainment industry.
: The perception in soaps is that worth is
: determined by the numbers of people who
: watch you on TV. Evidently, the people who
: watch those numbers feel that Steve Burton
: and Maurice bring in those numbers and
: deserve higher pay. GH has always been a
: male-dominated soap. Steve Hardy was their
: first star, and I am sure that he got paid a
: LOT more than Rachel Ames, who played
: Audrey. The audience is still largely
: female. Who do they want to see? That's
: the issue for the show, and age is a factor
: for advertisers.
:
: I don't know what happened in this
: situation. It certainly seemed that they
: were committed to keeping Genie under
: contract. I'm not watching any more, but
: all of you were saying that she was finally
: getting an interesting story that she was
: excited about. They invested airtime to
: doing a wedding for her and brought back
: Denise for it. It also seems that it was a
: surprise to the show as the writing had to
: be radically changed to make Kevin run for
: mayor. That's the kind of thing that
: happens when it is too late to change
: writing, but an accommodation needs to be
: made because the talent isn't there.
:
: Knowing Genie's history with the show makes
: me wonder if this indicates a final
: departure. She hasn't wanted to do
: recurring work or short-time contract work.
: Who could blame her? Why should she tie
: herself up for people who are not willing to
: commit to her?
:
: Saddest of all for me, is that we will NEVER
: get to find out what was in that letter or
: get that HEA ending that I so wanted for
: LnL. Maybe they could have Lulu receive a
: letter from Laura while she in is France
: saying that she bumped into Luke and
: rekindled their love. I guess that's about
: the best that we can hope for.
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: This has me so mad. I had heard when they
: came
: back from break that she had
: "walked"and they had to scramble
: to change the storyline but I don't believe
: rumors.. just watch and wait. Then the phone
: call..then yesterday. During contract
: negotiations (her contract has 1 more year
: but there must be something in it that gets
: reviewed in Jan) she balked. I don't believe
: it was the writing. She was finally getting
: the story we'd been promised and promised
: and promised. The timing is so curious
: considering on twitter Sarah Brown (Carly 1)
: naming Mo and Steve as always getting paid
: more than her and how ABC treated her and
: women on GH. Then another twitter person
: went on and on about Genie's history w/ the
: show and her contract/pay. This was a week
: or so ago. If we don't defend her now
: (someone has already called her a diva) she
: and other ACTRESSES will continue to have
: issues in Hollywood. I fought this battle 30
: yrs ago, made only a small dent but refused
: to take what everyone else took because the
: boys were getting to negotiated and made
: more $.. when I got up and walked, they
: stopped me and gave me more $. Small
: victory. BIG lesson. I think we should all
: be calling/ tweeting ABC and anyone Everyone
: that Genie is important to the show and we
: think they are CRAZY.
: She probably won't win, but they need to
: hear from people anyway.
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