Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Entertainment Vultures
What is it about certain people in the entertainment industry? Not content with having an award ceremony every other day, insisting on having their name plastered over everything they do, and being paid for 50 years for doing one day's work, they now want to increase this time to 95 years. Thankfully though, it doesn't look like it's going to happen.
What would it be like if every industry was the same? Every time we start our car, we would be forced to watch the logo of the car company unfold before us first. Our washing machines would be covered in the names of all the people who help to build it. And every time we want to us it, the engineer who built it gets 10p from the water company (which would be added t our water bill). The engineer would also have long since retired after doing his day's work.
I had the misfortune to here Katie Morose on Radio 4's PM yesterday lamenting the fact that soon, poor Ringo Starr was going to stop being paid for some drumming work he did about 50 years ago. I was in tears I tell you. When will this injustice end? I'm going to send him a cardboard box, as no doubt he'll have nowhere to live soon.
And if I'm being really cynical, the reason why Cliff is so worried is cos he's not done anything worth buying for 50 years.
What would it be like if every industry was the same? Every time we start our car, we would be forced to watch the logo of the car company unfold before us first. Our washing machines would be covered in the names of all the people who help to build it. And every time we want to us it, the engineer who built it gets 10p from the water company (which would be added t our water bill). The engineer would also have long since retired after doing his day's work.
I had the misfortune to here Katie Morose on Radio 4's PM yesterday lamenting the fact that soon, poor Ringo Starr was going to stop being paid for some drumming work he did about 50 years ago. I was in tears I tell you. When will this injustice end? I'm going to send him a cardboard box, as no doubt he'll have nowhere to live soon.
And if I'm being really cynical, the reason why Cliff is so worried is cos he's not done anything worth buying for 50 years.
