Sorry for your loss. It’s been seven years, but my dad died of cancer at 69 as well. What the fuck is that about?

I really hope we get a follow up to this story, because this is the part that makes me wonder how this could happen and/or what really happened.

She didn’t have sex with him though, he had sex with her while she endured it and waited for it to be over.

Is that really something there can be too much of? I’ve never reached my limit on sexy British purr, and I’m not sure I have one.

Yes! I would buy up tons of wooded land around here that would otherwise be bulldozed to build strip malls (the city that I live in is expanding like crazy and there are big-box stores popping up in fields EVERYWHERE) so all the wild life doesn’t get evicted. On my own property I’d have mosaic paths and Andy…

I think she’s saying that so far she has chosen not to have a pregnancy and PP has helped her achieve that. She might have even meant they helped her succeed in that goal? The word successful is kinda confusing in there, but I don’t think she means kids=no success.

I cannot star this enough times. He’s said and done a lot of boneheaded things, but talking about her rack in that situation is not one of them.

Wasn’t Rocco her bio kid with Guy Ritchie? I mean I’m with you that both those adoptions were shady as hell though.

hee. True!

There are those factors, yes, but we’re talking about instances where the men are getting paid more than women for doing the exact same job. That’s the wage gap being discussed here.

But isn’t the goal of those negotiations, the finish line the agent is trying to reach, to get booked? If those negotiations break down over fees then you don’t reach the finish line. I wasn’t saying that the booking comes first chronologically, but that getting jobs the highest priority.

“The moment she gets hers”? She has “hers”. She’s actually risking “hers” by speaking up and being seen as difficult to work with. I love how you keep saying what she won’t do, as if you can see the future. She is doing something right now by starting this conversation, and giving other women the language to talk…

The agent’s job is to get her booked, and then to get her the highest wage the studio will offer. If, while negotiating for a part the studio says “you know what? There are plenty of other actresses whose agents will take a smaller paycheck.” then the agent isn’t able to book her that job. It’s an industry-wide…

Right. And the studio offers that agent much less than they offer a male star’s agent.

Congratulations! You seem to have missed her point entirely. She’s trying to use her position of privilege, which she openly acknowledges above, to highlight the issue all women face. You talk about her privilege as if it can only be evil, as if using that word shuts down any point she is trying to make and any change…

“youngish”? I’m an old and he looks old to me. Yikes.

Sometimes the shorthand of a family conversation is confusing to us outsiders. I totally had no idea what you were both getting at.

Right. Like, how is this “negativity”? It’s the truth. She wasn’t making a dig or throwing elbows, she was just talking about something that happened.

Yeeeaaah... Islands in the Stream was from 1983. I know The Youngs are writing this shit nowadays but come on.

If I were a betting woman I’d say Widlar is the OP. Just a guess.