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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Jan 1 04:51:57 2014, in response to Re: Duck Dynasty Star: Women Should carry Bibles, cook, Marry at 15, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Jan 1 04:36:49 2014. Let me elaborate a little while I wait for another failed compile of code tonight (since I have a little time here) ... THIS is how those "morals clauses" work out in the REAL world of "entertainment industry." You live in LALA land and can probably get free copies of Variety, so you probably know how it works being close to it a WHOLE lot better than the idiots here who are trying to argue it ...*IF* "adverse publicity" boosts your numbers and eyeballs, then studios and the overseers will completely ignore those bad reviews as LONG as it ups the numbers for a show. And that'll hold AS LONG AS those numbers go up. So you, the talent, and your "benefactor" can cruise along on you shooting up a train, go to jail more often than that child actress who made the papers almost daily a few years ago, and it's all good. Contract absolutely prohibits ANY of that stuff. But as long as you're making money, they'll look the other way. Until you DON'T. And when your contract is up for renewal, and your show gets canceled, they'll invoke THOSE episodes as to the reason why you just got shitcanned (Viz: Charlie Sheen whose ratings were STILL holding on, but the producers just got tired of his shit on stage) ... bam! You're gone. Just like what happened with this idiot. Industry also learned that dumping Sheen also killed the program, so they're more careful about that now too. He's good as long as those numbers keep climbing. But Hollyweird and thebusiness itself have a LONG memory. When those numbers start going down, THIS will be the reason for the shitcan to avoid suits over other speculation as to why the show is done. Folks forget that "make believeland" works under a COMPLETELY different set of rules than a job at Mallwart where you have to accrue three violations of policy with written notes in your personnel file before you can claim "unlawful termination." Those clauses exist in order to circumvent that "employment at will" when you're a "star" ... they DID suspend him over that, and probably WOULD have invoked that clause to part ways. However, the PUBLICITY (good, bad or indifferent) only caused them to NOT exercise that contract option AT THIS TIME. If he continues to be a fuckup though, they'll shitcan his ass and no lawyer will be able to extract any more money. Reality shows have even MORE ironclad clauses in them that you would for professional talent, but in the end the ratings dictate what will come of it. Right now, the ratings are up. You don't EVER fuck with that. But once the curiosity-seekers stop watching, that clause will bite him on the ass as it always does. :) Hope this helps. Code is done, gotta scoot. |
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