I'm reading over the contract for my half-hour script. It's fifteen pages long. The script itself is only thirty pages long. Apparently, the studio won't be comfortable unless I sign over all gas, oil and mineral rights to any land I may walk across during the execution of the script, plus agree to mediate disputes before a tribunal consisting of attorneys related to studio executives.It's a simple business where a man's handshake is his bond.
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I don't understand why contracts are written so that no lay person can comprehend them. We can't all afford to hire a lawyer to read every last thing we have to sign in order to earn the money to pay the lawyer in the first place.
As Lenin said: first shoot all the lawyers...
I sense the Founding Fathers never envisioned our republic would become a lawyeracrocy.
I may have misjudged certain tenants of Leninism.
JM:
I think we should write up a fifteen page contract about the validity of a handshake and what it means to shake hands. And then, each time we shake hands with someone, we pull out the contract and make all parties sign it.
TR
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