From: statehoodnow@gov.su.us (The Voltairian™/Black Jester™/Closet Libertarian™/Riley Bitterman) Newsgroups: alt.comedy.standup,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.sex.strip-clubs,alt.tv.pol-incorrect,cnn.newsroom Subject: LIBTR; ENT; POHY; ASS-C: Success in the Entertainment Business and the Media... Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:32:33 GMT Organization: Closet Libertarian™/Black Jester™ Reply-To: statehoodnow@gov.su.us Message-ID: <3d6c971f.806256@news.lightspeed.ca> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 NNTP-Posting-Host: vandial13.lightspeed.bc.ca X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: vandial13.lightspeed.bc.ca X-Trace: rsl2.rslnet.net 1030527646 vandial13.lightspeed.bc.ca (28 Aug 2002 02:40:46 -0700) Lines: 53 Path: rsl2.rslnet.net Xref: rsl2.rslnet.net alt.comedy.standup:32499 alt.politics.libertarian:37617 alt.sex.strip-clubs:85559 alt.tv.pol-incorrect:66794 cnn.newsroom:1940 I noticed a severe flaw in the rating of success in the entertainment business (even regarding news) in the news media, and this is counting the success not by cost vs. sales; aka profits, but in sales alone, assuming those figures are accurate. For instance a film that costs 500,000 and makes 2 million in the BO is more successful than a picture that costs 64 Million to make and makes 14 million. The problem here is that the real success making 2 million gets short changed by hype alone and nothing more. While a total flop can stay in the theatres a flop, but yet a hyped up media success usually to kiss someone's ass and masturbate someone's ego. Docta Gov. Admr. Count Gölök Zoltán Leenderdt Franco Buday; PhG Aka The guy who is so obsessed with Jeszika Alba that he ignores her with the delusion that it's his name on the restraining order, not Michael Weatherly's. Writer, Humorist, and everything else under the moon. [Also said to be a multi-trilionare businessman and Navy SEAL] Vancouver, Neo Sumer/Olympia, Washington/Who knows where else... The Official Black Jester Website: http://www.blackjester.com/ My Ego Times: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/ Dictionary: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/dictionary/ Election 2002: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/election.links/2002/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "As you have the power, sir, to do some service to letters, I implore you not to clip the wings of our writers so closely, nor turn into barndoor fowls those who, allowed a start, might become eagles; reasonable liberty permits the mind to soar--slavery makes it creep." -- Voltaire [A Letter To A First Commissioner] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then gets elected and proves it. -P.J. O'Rourke -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There may not be an 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in Libertarian (in fact 2)" -- Gölök Buday, April of 2002 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PS I am not, nor have been, known as Grant Buday PPS Not Che from che-lives.com † Download Free Agent ftp://ftp.forteinc.com/pub/free_agent/fa32-121.exe Free Agent Product PageFree Agent Product Page http://www.forteinc.com/agent/freagent.htm