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Leno offers bonuses as 120 are laid off
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When striking Tonight Show writers open their mailboxes this week, they’ll find a paycheck; not from the network, but from host Jay Leno himself.
Over 120 Tonight Show staff recently received Christmas bonus checks, but were laid off early for the holiday season, with no guarantee they’d have jobs when the program resumes following the writers’ strike, which could come within the next couple weeks if the WGA accepts a contract proposal they are reviewing from producers, but may stretch into the unforeseen future if they do not.
The 120 layoffs match a similar layoff two weeks ago of staff who depend on the NBC comedy The Office for their weekly pay. The longer the the strike stretches out, the more common such layoffs will become.
The personal bonus from Leno was $100 for each year a staffer has been on staff with the show since he took over; not much money by Hollywood standards, but all of it apparently out of Leno’s personal account, not the network’s.
read comments (0)Moore’s debut more than a little "Sicko"
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If any other movie in America had debuted in the ninth spot on the movie charts in its opening week, taking in less than $1.5 million, it would be declared an abject failure and barely a blip on the radar. But since the film is by Hollywood’s second-favorite propagandist (sorry, Mikey, but Al Gore now has the top spot), no one’s willing to admit the floppish nature of Moore’s new anti-everything-not-as-ultra-liberal-as-he-is film, “Sicko.”
Except me, of course.
The sweet bit is this: a long-overdue sequel to the Die Hard franchise, starring America’s favorite patriot and closet conservative, Bruce Willis, came in second, seven spots above Moore and raking in about seven times more than the bespectacled filmmaker.
Of course, these are Friday-only figures, so the jury’s still out, but it’s unlikely “Sicko” will be catching up to “Live Free or Die Hard,” like, ever. And a note to Officer John McClaine: the terrorist behind all those evils you’ve been fighting now for four films goes by the initials M.M., and he’s not that interested in living free, so… you know… do what you must.
Now, before y’all start filling up mailboxes saying I’m advocating anyone’s demise, keep in mind that JOHN MCCLAINE IS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER!
But then, increasingly as time goes on, so is Michael Moore.