Letters to the Editor
Lestat1
Published Letters: 456 Editor's Choice: 21
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Keep striking folks
[Read the article: Who wants to be a millionaire -- on strike?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh please some of you, the jealousy drips with envy.
The fact is without writers, there would be NO TV shows or movies folks. Just endless repetitions of reality shows and game shows, which have their place but there is no way I would watch reality show after reality show, I simply can find other ways to occupy my time.
The only reason people bitch about oh the writers being whiny is because you don't see them, you don't know who they are. Could you imagine telling an author that they don't deserve perpetual residuals for the movie made from their books. Gee sorry JK Rowling, we realize that your books is making hundreds of millions of dollars at the theatre, but you only deserve a one time fee.
Each part makes the whole, you cannot have one without the other and the producers should make the most because they have the most risk. But that doesn't mean they should be able with new technology be allowed to line their pockets while saying, hey writers and directors and actors, you get nothing while I laugh my ass off on the way to the bank.
As for grips and the like, well sorry they are interchangeble and it's a low skilled task that they are lucky they get paid as much OT as they do. Does anyone really notice in the viewing audience how good the gripper or best boy was, I don't even know what they do.
I never used to pay attention to writers until I started watching Buffy. I did notice that certain writers wrote better episodes and they carried that talent no matter where they went, be it to Lost or Smallville. I could see how a writer can tank the main character as Jane Espenson did in the 6th season working out her man issues with Spike and Buffy because Joss was busy with Angel. I started following writers around, oh those Gilmore Girls writers got a new show, well maybe I'll tune in even though the idea sounds boring.
I now can tell the difference between the absolute crappy writing on Bionic Woman to the great writing of 30 Rock and the better Lost episodes and the writers are on the hook for the treatment of the mystery, we are losing patience with them. Lost will lose viewers eventually if the writing doesn't pick up again, no matter how sexy Matthew Fox is or how pretty Evangeline Lily is.
You may think writing is no big deal, or it's easy, but as the world wide web has shown, most of us write completly boring shit. Crappy fan fiction, crappy blogs, there is oodles of more crap than anything that is even midly entertaining as even the shittiest TV show ever, like the current Moonlight(a vamp TV show). Writing is as integral to the end product, many people don't realize they like a show because of how it's written, how these teams of writers create a year long story arc, how hard it is to write funny lines and situations for 22 weeks a year. But tell them hey, you don't deserve jack that comes out of the internet, what if the internet becomes the next big revenue stream while we abandon our TV sets for laptops and DVD's? Say sorry charlie, you just write? Books have been entertainment for centuries, now you're basically telling the writers they are lucky just to get paid for their words being quoted, their lines being remembered, for making philisophical impacts on our lives because their words don't get bound and printed like James Patterson's do because the guy who wrote this article just happened to write quiz show questions?
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I think Arlie is silly
[Read the article: Quote (and debate?) of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think it's the opposite, I in no way think it's because people aren't getting touched enough. Women take spa days because most of the time they are taking care of others, the spa or manicurist is a way for someone else to take care of them.
I think people pay for these services for two reasons. One, the professional is going to do a much better job than you or your friends/mate can.
Manicures, pedicures, waxing, these are all grooming habits that are just easier when done by someone else. Plus, if you visit the same place, the professional ceases to be a stranger.
Secondly, I think it's a way to be touched and rubbed and relaxed and not expected to have sex afterwards.
I know when my husband starts rubbing my back when I'm not asking him to relive a pain spot, he's doing it cause he's horny. If he were to paint my nails, I know he'd expect a blow job or something in return for doing that girly shit.
Also, I don't want my friends painting my nails, they suck at it and then I'm going to have to do theirs.
There were always men who went to the barbershop, got a haircut and a shave. Now some men are seeing how nice it is to have your nails and cuticles tended to by a professional too. More are getting massages. More people are finding out that a professional massage is one of the best damn feelings ever. If I had the money I would get one every week.
I really don't think you can equate paying for grooming as an example of lack of intamacy in other parts of your life. I cuddle every night, I'm still paying to get my nails done. One of my dogs loves it when I pull out the brush, he runs right up begging for me to brush his coat and I haven't met a dog yet that doesn't absolutely love the tummy and butt rub. Grooming and rubbing feels goooood. Since when do people not like feeling good?