The women of Hollywood need to stop whining. By Elliot J. Nitkin
am going to do the totally unthinkable, the inconceivable, the seemingly indefensible. I'm going to disagree with the women of Hollywood. I will get right to the heart of the matter: 1) You have the mental acuity and cognitive capacity sufficient to the task of reaching your goals. 2) Without a doubt, you are not resourceless, you do not require "inclusion riders". 3) You are, can and should be, leaders in the artworld. 4) You have faced awful discrimination. 5) So have a lot of people. Given that, you need to comport yourself accordingly. You are leaders - rich leaders - with considerable power. Whining in public to get paid another few million is unseemly, even if you do deserve it. There are moments of discrimination, verbal brutality from managers or clients and infuriating experiences that affect us all. Has someone told you there is a utopia? No one lives a utopian existence. Yet somehow the rest of us manage to deal with it on comparatively "meager" salaries and a decided lack of adoration from the world's press. They are the people who constitute your customer base and are therefore YOUR source of income. Thought in those terms, your approach starts to seem, condescending. I wager that you would love to get a project picked up by Amazon.com's streaming service. This what the people who work for Jeff Bezos - one of the richest men in history - earn (2018):
Try getting by on those wages. The highest hourly wage on the list makes the worker about $32,156.00 a year, before taxes. To put her son through university - the first in his family to graduate - she becomes an Avon lady (among the first in Canada), essentially a private business consultant, in a time when women did not start businesses. Think "Fiddler on the Roof", but, after they immigrate to North America and Tzeitel helps Motel with the family income. Gal Gadot and Natalie Portman would both be perfect for either role. They both need and deserve a good dramatic vehicle, AND, they are both Jews which is a real bonus (I really hate it when actors speak hebrew and it sounds like drek). Where did I get the idea for these movies? Is life imitating art? Am I just gifted and imaginative? If it sounds like I have no pity for you, it's because I have no pity for you. Empathy, but not pity. Recently (2018), I decided to look up the networth of some prominent Hollywood ladies. I researched fifty-five women. You know what I learned?
Let me put this in perspective. These fifty-five ladies have a reported combined networth that is larger than the gross domestic product of Togo. Then I remembered the story of United Artists. The story is well known and you can look it up. However, if they could break out of the studio system in 1919, the fifty-five of you (along with those I left off the list and many other prominent American women like Sheryl Sandberg, Meg Whitman and Laurene Powell) can certainly issue shares in a new company, put a few hundred million in the bank, buy a script or two, hire a director, cast and crew and make a movie!!!! I will do what I can as a Canadian movie goer and buy tickets and popcorn. There are plenty of people who, like me, just want to be enthralled by a great movie. So if DW Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks AND my grandmothers can do what they did, I am certain you can overcome Hollywood's tyrannical elite. But as the bard would say, "there in lies the rub": you also might discover that running a successful multi-billion dollar business requires you to become ... ruthless. Sometimes you have to work with some very difficult and demanding people because you cannot succeed without them and when THEY succeed in the same milieu, it goes to their head. I know this. The rest of the world knows this. Certainly, the next generation of women in my family know this. I would encourage you to ask them. |
The women of Hollywood need to stop whining. By Elliot J. Nitkin
am going to do the totally unthinkable, the inconceivable, the seemingly indefensible. I'm going to disagree with the women of Hollywood. I will get right to the heart of the matter: 1) You have the mental acuity and cognitive capacity sufficient to the task of reaching your goals. 2) Without a doubt, you are not resourceless, you do not require "inclusion riders". 3) You are, can and should be, leaders in the artworld. 4) You have faced awful discrimination. 5) So have a lot of people. Given that, you need to comport yourself accordingly. You are leaders - rich leaders - with considerable power. Whining in public to get paid another few million is unseemly, even if you do deserve it. There are moments of discrimination, verbal brutality from managers or clients and infuriating experiences that affect us all. Has someone told you there is a utopia? No one lives a utopian existence. Yet somehow the rest of us manage to deal with it on comparatively "meager" salaries and a decided lack of adoration from the world's press. They are the people who constitute your customer base and are therefore YOUR source of income. Thought in those terms, your approach starts to seem, condescending. I wager that you would love to get a project picked up by Amazon.com's streaming service. This what the people who work for Jeff Bezos - one of the richest men in history - earn (2018):
Try getting by on those wages. The highest hourly wage on the list makes the worker about $32,156.00 a year, before taxes. To put her son through university - the first in his family to graduate - she becomes an Avon lady (among the first in Canada), essentially a private business consultant, in a time when women did not start businesses. Think "Fiddler on the Roof", but, after they immigrate to North America and Tzeitel helps Motel with the family income. Gal Gadot and Natalie Portman would both be perfect for either role. They both need and deserve a good dramatic vehicle, AND, they are both Jews which is a real bonus (I really hate it when actors speak hebrew and it sounds like drek). Where did I get the idea for these movies? Is life imitating art? Am I just gifted and imaginative? If it sounds like I have no pity for you, it's because I have no pity for you. Empathy, but not pity. Recently (2018), I decided to look up the networth of some prominent Hollywood ladies. I researched fifty-five women. You know what I learned?
Let me put this in perspective. These fifty-five ladies have a reported combined networth that is larger than the gross domestic product of Togo. Then I remembered the story of United Artists. The story is well known and you can look it up. However, if they could break out of the studio system in 1919, the fifty-five of you (along with those I left off the list and many other prominent American women like Sheryl Sandberg, Meg Whitman and Laurene Powell) can certainly issue shares in a new company, put a few hundred million in the bank, buy a script or two, hire a director, cast and crew and make a movie!!!! I will do what I can as a Canadian movie goer and buy tickets and popcorn. There are plenty of people who, like me, just want to be enthralled by a great movie. So if DW Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks AND my grandmothers can do what they did, I am certain you can overcome Hollywood's tyrannical elite. But as the bard would say, "there in lies the rub": you also might discover that running a successful multi-billion dollar business requires you to become ... ruthless. Sometimes you have to work with some very difficult and demanding people because you cannot succeed without them and when THEY succeed in the same milieu, it goes to their head. I know this. The rest of the world knows this. Certainly, the next generation of women in my family know this. I would encourage you to ask them. | The women of Hollywood need to stop whining. By Elliot J. Nitkin
am going to do the totally unthinkable, the inconceivable, the seemingly indefensible. I'm going to disagree with the women of Hollywood. I will get right to the heart of the matter: 1) You have the mental acuity and cognitive capacity sufficient to the task of reaching your goals. 2) Without a doubt, you are not resourceless, you do not require "inclusion riders". 3) You are, can and should be, leaders in the artworld. 4) You have faced awful discrimination. 5) So have a lot of people. Given that, you need to comport yourself accordingly. You are leaders - rich leaders - with considerable power. Whining in public to get paid another few million is unseemly, even if you do deserve it. There are moments of discrimination, verbal brutality from managers or clients and infuriating experiences that affect us all. Has someone told you there is a utopia? No one lives a utopian existence. Yet somehow the rest of us manage to deal with it on comparatively "meager" salaries and a decided lack of adoration from the world's press. They are the people who constitute your customer base and are therefore YOUR source of income. Thought in those terms, your approach starts to seem, condescending. I wager that you would love to get a project picked up by Amazon.com's streaming service. This what the people who work for Jeff Bezos - one of the richest men in history - earn (2018):
Try getting by on those wages. The highest hourly wage on the list makes the worker about $32,156.00 a year, before taxes. To put her son through university - the first in his family to graduate - she becomes an Avon lady (among the first in Canada), essentially a private business consultant, in a time when women did not start businesses. Think "Fiddler on the Roof", but, after they immigrate to North America and Tzeitel helps Motel with the family income. Gal Gadot and Natalie Portman would both be perfect for either role. They both need and deserve a good dramatic vehicle, AND, they are both Jews which is a real bonus (I really hate it when actors speak hebrew and it sounds like drek). Where did I get the idea for these movies? Is life imitating art? Am I just gifted and imaginative? If it sounds like I have no pity for you, it's because I have no pity for you. Empathy, but not pity. Recently (2018), I decided to look up the networth of some prominent Hollywood ladies. I researched fifty-five women. You know what I learned?
Let me put this in perspective. These fifty-five ladies have a reported combined networth that is larger than the gross domestic product of Togo. Then I remembered the story of United Artists. The story is well known and you can look it up. However, if they could break out of the studio system in 1919, the fifty-five of you (along with those I left off the list and many other prominent American women like Sheryl Sandberg, Meg Whitman and Laurene Powell) can certainly issue shares in a new company, put a few hundred million in the bank, buy a script or two, hire a director, cast and crew and make a movie!!!! I will do what I can as a Canadian movie goer and buy tickets and popcorn. There are plenty of people who, like me, just want to be enthralled by a great movie. So if DW Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks AND my grandmothers can do what they did, I am certain you can overcome Hollywood's tyrannical elite. But as the bard would say, "there in lies the rub": you also might discover that running a successful multi-billion dollar business requires you to become ... ruthless. Sometimes you have to work with some very difficult and demanding people because you cannot succeed without them and when THEY succeed in the same milieu, it goes to their head. I know this. The rest of the world knows this. Certainly, the next generation of women in my family know this. I would encourage you to ask them. |
The women of Hollywood need to stop whining. By Elliot J. Nitkin
am going to do the totally unthinkable, the inconceivable, the seemingly indefensible. I'm going to disagree with the women of Hollywood. I will get right to the heart of the matter: 1) You have the mental acuity and cognitive capacity sufficient to the task of reaching your goals. 2) Without a doubt, you are not resourceless, you do not require "inclusion riders". 3) You are, can and should be, leaders in the artworld. 4) You have faced awful discrimination. 5) So have a lot of people. Given that, you need to comport yourself accordingly. You are leaders - rich leaders - with considerable power. Whining in public to get paid another few million is unseemly, even if you do deserve it. There are moments of discrimination, verbal brutality from managers or clients and infuriating experiences that affect us all. Has someone told you there is a utopia? No one lives a utopian existence. Yet somehow the rest of us manage to deal with it on comparatively "meager" salaries and a decided lack of adoration from the world's press. They are the people who constitute your customer base and are therefore YOUR source of income. Thought in those terms, your approach starts to seem, condescending. I wager that you would love to get a project picked up by Amazon.com's streaming service. This what the people who work for Jeff Bezos - one of the richest men in history - earn (2018):
Try getting by on those wages. The highest hourly wage on the list makes the worker about $32,156.00 a year, before taxes. To put her son through university - the first in his family to graduate - she becomes an Avon lady (among the first in Canada), essentially a private business consultant, in a time when women did not start businesses. Think "Fiddler on the Roof", but, after they immigrate to North America and Tzeitel helps Motel with the family income. Gal Gadot and Natalie Portman would both be perfect for either role. They both need and deserve a good dramatic vehicle, AND, they are both Jews which is a real bonus (I really hate it when actors speak hebrew and it sounds like drek). Where did I get the idea for these movies? Is life imitating art? Am I just gifted and imaginative? If it sounds like I have no pity for you, it's because I have no pity for you. Empathy, but not pity. Recently (2018), I decided to look up the networth of some prominent Hollywood ladies. I researched fifty-five women. You know what I learned?
Let me put this in perspective. These fifty-five ladies have a reported combined networth that is larger than the gross domestic product of Togo. Then I remembered the story of United Artists. The story is well known and you can look it up. However, if they could break out of the studio system in 1919, the fifty-five of you (along with those I left off the list and many other prominent American women like Sheryl Sandberg, Meg Whitman and Laurene Powell) can certainly issue shares in a new company, put a few hundred million in the bank, buy a script or two, hire a director, cast and crew and make a movie!!!! I will do what I can as a Canadian movie goer and buy tickets and popcorn. There are plenty of people who, like me, just want to be enthralled by a great movie. So if DW Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks AND my grandmothers can do what they did, I am certain you can overcome Hollywood's tyrannical elite. But as the bard would say, "there in lies the rub": you also might discover that running a successful multi-billion dollar business requires you to become ... ruthless. Sometimes you have to work with some very difficult and demanding people because you cannot succeed without them and when THEY succeed in the same milieu, it goes to their head. I know this. The rest of the world knows this. Certainly, the next generation of women in my family know this. I would encourage you to ask them. |
