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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 292866" data-attributes="member: 57984">Somers&#039; story is a lie, and a lie she&#039;s told for 40 years, which is why Ritter and Joyce Dewitt didn&#039;t speak to her for decades. She was never asking for financial parity with John Ritter, though Suzanne was happy to have the press and the public think so, knowing that&#039;s what they would infer when she crinkled her nose and coquettishly asserted that, &quot;I just wanted what the boys were getting,&quot; making her salary demand sound like an act of feminism.But &quot;the boys&quot; she was really referring to, Carroll O&#039;Connor and Alan Alda, who were both getting six figures weekly for their classic sitcoms which, by 1980, had already been on the air for nearly a decade. In contrast, THREE&#039;S COMPANY had only been on the air for three years, and Somers was asking for more than 100K per episode and 10% of the profits -- far more than Ritter was getting. (Sure, Larry Hagman had secured a 100K salary over the summer, and DALLAS&nbsp; had only been on the air for two years, but that was the season of &quot;Who Shot JR?&quot;, a global phenomenon).Today, of course, it&#039;s all different: actors get a quarter million by the second year of a hit show, despite much smaller audiences than back in the day (as Joan Collins has bitterly, but correctly, pointed out).Victoria would never have been so dumb nor tin-eared as Suzanne.<img src="https://d2zfp6uemhh7c1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/27105956/BubSjqy.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 292866, member: 57984"] Somers' story is a lie, and a lie she's told for 40 years, which is why Ritter and Joyce Dewitt didn't speak to her for decades. She was never asking for financial parity with John Ritter, though Suzanne was happy to have the press and the public think so, knowing that's what they would infer when she crinkled her nose and coquettishly asserted that, "I just wanted what the boys were getting," making her salary demand sound like an act of feminism. But "the boys" she was really referring to, Carroll O'Connor and Alan Alda, who were both getting six figures weekly for their classic sitcoms which, by 1980, had already been on the air for nearly a decade. In contrast, THREE'S COMPANY had only been on the air for three years, and Somers was asking for more than 100K per episode and 10% of the profits -- far more than Ritter was getting. (Sure, Larry Hagman had secured a 100K salary over the summer, and DALLAS had only been on the air for two years, but that was the season of "Who Shot JR?", a global phenomenon). Today, of course, it's all different: actors get a quarter million by the second year of a hit show, despite much smaller audiences than back in the day (as Joan Collins has bitterly, but correctly, pointed out). Victoria would never have been so dumb nor tin-eared as Suzanne. [IMG]https://d2zfp6uemhh7c1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/27105956/BubSjqy.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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