Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Defending Nassau Hall Message-ID: <804@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 15:32:04 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.804 Posted: Mon Mar 4 15:32:04 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 03:11:30 EST References: <1980@inmet.UUCP> <753@ecsvax.UUCP>, <520@intelca.UUCP> Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr Lines: 36 <> > > Disclaimer: I have no personal connection with Miss Shields, other than > > as a satisfied customer. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Mind following up on this? Does Miss Shields run some business of which we > are not aware? Or are you a photographer who has employed her talents as a > model? Well, I was joking of course, but since you ask... Anyone who has seen a Brooke Shields film is in a sense a "customer" of her company. Like most Hollywood types, Shields contracts her services through a corporation (called, if memory serves, Brooke Shields, Inc.). This has some tax advantages, although what with rules about personal holding companies, maximum tax on personal service income, and who knows what else, I'm sure accountants and lawyers are kept quite busy. If you want some more details on these shenanigans (though not specify to Shields) you might read The Movie Business Book ed. by Jason E. Squire. That's a fascinating book in many respects. Did you know, for instance, that a theater normally gets only 5 cents of a 50-cent increase in ticket prices (the rest going to the distributor)? As for my being a photographer... As a matter of fact I was, at one time. And while I never photographed Brooke Shields, I did shoot a film commercial featuring Miss South Carolina, back in 1973 I think. The Miss S. C. in question did quite a few commercials, for Evinrude among others. (The one in question was for a salt-water resistant wood.) At the end of the shoot Miss S. C. passed out autographed photos to the various agency people, company executives, and other hangers on. Except me. Me she gave her business card. I asked the producer what he thought she might have meant by that. "Well," he mused. "Maybe she meant business." (All true, every byte.) -- D Gary Grady Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-3695 USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary