Step by Step was on 6 or 7 seasons and part of the big TGIF lineup on ABC with Family Matters and Full House
OT: RIP Suzanne Somers
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Step by Step was on 6 or 7 seasons and part of the big TGIF lineup on ABC with Family Matters and Full House
She made tons of money as a successful businesswoman pitching books and products. Very very successful
That's actually how I knew of her, the hot mom on that show. RIP
The original replacement was Cindy Snow played by Jenilee Harrison..clumsy in more ways than one
Apparently only made only $3500 per week at the start and then up to $30K per episode on 3's Company. When she asked for a raise after season 3 they only offered $5K.....she ended up getting jettisoned from the show. She made ~$300M on the Thigh Master and supposedly had a current net worth of $100M.
Read that she was making $5000 a show and Ritter was making $150K. When her contract was up she wanted parity and ABC fired her and she was blackballed in Hollywood till she rebuilt her career.
More important than her acting career it is apparent that she had a great marriage.
Unusual for her time as an actress.
Unusual for her time as an actress.
Her big raise was to be paid on par with John Ritter. It was her opinion that the three characters were equally important to the show. She might have been successful if she had Joyce Dewitt negotiate with her similar to what the Friends actors did.
Now look at everyone older than you and know they have all gone through this phase and know what it says about theirs, and yours and mine, and all our mortality... aka the human condition.
There's a bright and shiny moment for the Rutgers fandom. We're all gonna die!
Yes let's not forget the zillions of ThighMasters she sold - yes that's what it was called.
Never watched a single Seinfeld episode. Found something very off putting about Jerry. Maybe it was his lack of sense of humor when Howard Stern relentlessly mocked him after he married that young girl. Found Norm disturbing too. Never watched friends a full episode of Friends either. Would watch for 5 minutes, get bored and turn it off.
She also sold a "buttmaster"
The guy that sold these "master" devices (not invented) also sold the mood ring
Jerry screwed his costars royally.
He’s making millions on syndication while they make peanuts.
From what I read Jerry only owns 15% of the show and Larry David 15%.
There were a lot of other executive producers and financiers.
Jerry himself was making 20k per episode to start and then it went up incrementally but not hugely until.
Only at the end was he getting 1 mil per and so were the other stars.
After the show they got what the union said they should get but not what owners got.
Perhaps the moral of story is if you want big residuals own a show
Culturally I found the show smart, "Yadda, yadda".."festivus".."manssiere" - clever stuff with memorable characters who were quirky. Just the Kramer slide and facial ticks were clever. It was also defo a NYC show.
Friends was also a NYC show at the same time. Friends was just low cal stuff though. Aniston's hairdo made the show famous and "smugglin peas" under her shirt didn't hurt. Characters were superficial but Kudrow could be funny/quirky. Her father was an MD and she had a BA in biology from Vassar and she played stupid in a smart way.
Seinfeld was great because of the other actors, not Jerry.
He did not marry a young girl. Jessica Seinfield is 52 and they married in 1998. As I do math, that makes her 27 when they married. He did have a brief relationship with a 17-year old before he married. The "scandal" about Jessica was that she was married, but she says she moved out before she met Jerry.
Whoops, close but no cigar for me. From Shoshanna's Wikipedia: "While still a 17-year-old high school student, she met then 38-year-old Jerry Seinfeld in a public park.[1] At that point, Seinfeld got her phone number.[2]"
Still creepy and weird, and he had no sense of humor about it.
"Well, she was just seventeen/ and you know what I mean. . . "
BTW, it is said that Paul McCartney (always inclined to oversentimentality) wrote the second line as "and no beauty queen," and that John Lennon changed it.
They are getting the standard rate but when on the air their salaries by the time show ended:
(Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine, Jason Alexander as George and Michael Richards as Kramer) were pocketing $600,000 per episode.
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I agree that Jerry ranked 4th out of the 4 stars, but Larry David was the backbone of the show. He left before the final two seasons, which were fairly bad.
Curb, which I'm currently rewatching w/ the wife, is brilliant.
They’ve all done fine. None of them are hurting for money. None of them have come out and said they resent Jerry.
Totally disagree. Jerry was the straight man and set up so much of the storyline and he wrote a ton of material for the show. He was the foundation and frankly was funny as hell in most episodes. The other characters while brilliant in their own right, revolved mostly around Jerry.
The thing to keep in mind was that everybody else was a professional actor and Seinfield was (and is) not. That detracted from his performance --but you are right that he was outstanding in other ways.
Think Bud Abbott with 3 Costello when it comes to Jerry and the main cast
Jerry was a deadpan stand-up for many years before his TV show.
He began in 76 and first did Carson in 81 (first tv show in 89).
His stand-up routine was the same kind of "observational" comedy found in the show.
That kind of comedy had a cultural, tranformation of consciousness vibe.
He could point something out and people would be like "oh yeah I do that!"
The funniest deadpanner was Steven Wright with his paraprosdokianisms
Of course he's a great comedian.He wouldn't have made a gazillion dollars otherwise. But that's not the same as being a great actor. Even playing a character based on oneself is hard.
I wasn't saying he was a good actor - he was just Jerry - but the perspective was his and Larry David's.
Take those guys away and there is no Seinfeld.
The other actors were so good Jerry could be the potted plant