OBSCENE SALARIES IN THE ENTERTAINMENT BIZ? YOU BET.

THE KUHNS REPORT

LAS VEGAS - Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

Over blown salaries. It not only happens in the sports field but also in the entertainment field. Let me just refer to some. There are literally thousands of examples that could be cited but here are just a few to mull over. For example, This year Ashton Kutcher starring in TV's "Two and a Half Men" is  currently being paid $750,000 an episode. Some actors and actresses appearing in the Law and Order television series, "Special Victims Unit are making $400,000 an episode. And lets not forget Judge Judy and her TV show. It is reported that she is earning an over the top salary of  $14 Million dollars a year. WOW! Over paid people. I think so.

Just recently Britney Spears , the over the hill teeny-bopper, who lip syncs her songs and pretends to sing rather than display any real, raw vocal talent just signed on for a $30 MILLION two year stint at the Planet Hollywood  Resort Casino earning a whopping $380,000 per show. Can you believe it? Just to have her walk and strut the stage with a group of back up dancers and the hotel/casino execs pay her over $300 grand a show. What the devil is the entertainment business coming to folks? I wonder how long it will take the casino people to realize that Spears show  will in all likelihood  "bomb" and self destruct.

These same casino/hotel executives are paying DJ's $500,000 for an appearance. What? These clowns show up with a flash drive full of music, plug it into a sound system inside the room and click the on switch and get paid $500,000. What a rip off. Christ, any teen age kid can do that with his or her iPod. Where is the DJ's talent? Nowhere. They have none. What does it take to use someone else's music and replay it from a flash drive?

As a side note - - What about all of these judges on the various  talent shows like the  "Voice", "America's Got Talent", "American Idol," etc. Come on people. Do you really think some of those so-called entertainers, or has been entertainers are worth the millions of dollars they are being paid?

Like the little lady in the TV commercial used to ask: Where's the beef? My question wold be - - Where's the TALENT?  Lip syncing, pretend singers and people that play a flash drive full of music doesn't cut it with me.

In any event  - -like many individuals in the sports industry who I think are grossly OVERPAID (for playing a game) people in the entertainment biz are OVER PAID.

Many of the suffering men and women across this nation who clock in and punch a time clock for a hard eight (8) hour day job , try to support a family and who try to make ends meet on $30,000 $50,000 a year, sometimes much less,  see this gorging at the trough by these people and can't understand why there is such inequity and disparity. - And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions. You decide.

Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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