[sumo] [off topic] Mary Poppins

Judith Douglas jdouglas at nyc.rr.com
Fri Aug 10 00:51:36 EDT 2007


I think Emmett was just pulling K-Jo's leg.  Or,  we could turn it into 
another debate paralleling situations where various people in various 
professions were suspended for 4 months with 30% loss of pay and house 
arrest.   Hmmmmmm.   So far no one comes to mind.

Jude
On Aug 9, 2007, at 8:44 PM, Carl Freire wrote:

> At 3:30 PM -0400 8/9/07, <emmett.wayne at us.army.mil> wrote:
>> The Screen Actor's Guild suspended her for two movies, and docked 30% 
>> of her pay.
>
> Huh?  Is this just a piece of Internet lore, or can you point us to an 
> actual article/item that tells about this?  It seems a little odd, 
> given that plenty of SAG members appeared nude in movies before that. 
> S.O.B. came out in 1981, more than a decade after the Hays-era ban on 
> nudity had been broken, for example, and around eight years after 
> SAG-member Marlon Brando demonstrated one of butter's uses in Last 
> Tango in Paris without any SAG penalty that I've ever heard about.
>
> BTW, the Screen Actor's Guild gave Andrews a Lifetime Achievement 
> Award.
>
> Curious,
> Carl
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