Taxpayer Bailout: Failed Bank Execs, Conan…What’s the Difference?

Imagine there was a bank — you know, one of those evil fat cat banks the Obama Administration loves to hold up as Economic Bogeyman — that had taken a large piece of financial backing from The Federal Government. Now imagine there was a guy working at that bank for 17 years who was a rising star in the financial world and who landed a big promotion after the bailout of this bank. Then suddenly this rising star isn’t performing so well. The profits in his division are down. He has a contract, but because times are tough and the guy’s falling performance the bank gives him the ax.

So the guy makes a big stink and demands that if he is going to be replaced the bank has to buy out his contract.

The bank offers him 30 million dollars to take a hike.

“That isn’t good enough,” the guy says. Not only does he want his money but since he is being let go a lot of his staff will also lose their jobs. So he demands another 12 million so they all enjoy a soft landing.

The bank says “ok” and pays out the money. (more…)

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Tags: AIG, bailout, Conan O'Brien, GM, Jeffrey Immelt
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Harlan Ellison: The Original Hollywood Rebel

“My role in life is to be a burr under the saddle. I didn’t pick that for myself, it just happens that’s the way I am. I wish I could be one of the really sweet guys, but for me nobody has a good word. That’s because my allegiance is to art, to the work. I have no allegiance to magazines, producers, studios, networks or anything. The work is what counts.” – Harlan Ellison, on writing in Hollywood.

For those of you here at Big Hollywood who think you are playing a whole new game in taking on the Tinseltown establishment in force, I have news for you. Scribe Extraordinaire and futurist iconoclast Harlan Ellison beat you all to the punch by about forty-five years. And if you don’t know who Harlan Ellison is, shame on you! He is a living legend with more Hugos and Nebulas than I care to count, as well as four WGA Awards and an Emmy nod. And all that’s just for starters. (more…)

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Tags: City on the Edge of Forever, Demon With a Glass Hand, Gene Roddenbery, Global warming, green
Posted Nov 23rd 2009 at 8:30 am in Books and Literature, Politics, Television | 264870109 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/11/23/harlan-ellison-the-original-hollywood-rebel/Harlan+Ellison%3A+The+Original+Hollywood+Rebel2009-11-23+16%3A30%3A05John+T.+Simpson