Oliver Stone Scrooges New York Actors

During the best of times, acting in film is a precarious way to make a living. Not complaining just stating a fact. Medical insurance and pension benefits are not guaranteed to Union (SAG) members, but qualified for by accruing, yearly, ever increasing amounts of earnings. The more you work the more likely you are to qualify and, conversely, the less you earn the more likely you are to find yourself and your family without.

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Enter humanitarian, caring and defender of the common man, Oliver Stone.

Stone wrapped shooting “Wall Street 2,” here in Manhattan, a couple of weeks ago. He decided that his monied (in some cases multi-millionaire) friends deserved the jobs, that might have made the difference between real SAG actors (or as he identifies them, “starving actors”) qualifying for pension and medical insurance or going without.

On some shoot days, as many as 100 of his “Upper East Side Friends” put trained, professional actors on the unemployment line.

Like most of his fellow travelers, in Hollywood and elsewhere, this is the old “Love the Masses and Hate the People,” that is the hallmark of such champions of compassion.

If you haven’t seen this in the media, don’t be surprised. They take care of their own.

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