If you heard someone screaming out loud in your neighborhood, it was probably moi!
Last night I was lounging about, catching up on up-to-the-minute gossip on TMZ, when the subject of residual payments for performers (monies paid to actors, dancers, and singers when shows they’ve been cast on have a repeat broadcast on TV or in the overseas market) popped up.
Just as Harvey Levin noted he received a residual for one penny on one occasion, one of his reporters shouted out a warning to the former lawyer.
“There’s a spider just over your head, Harvey,” the plus-size gal shrieked.
At this juncture, the cub reporters on duty last night, got in a frenzied bold-faced effort to rid the studio of the nasty creepy-crawly.
“Kill it,” one wicked dude snarled from his perch in the crowded newsroom.
At this point, I yelled at the old boob tube.
“Don’t do it!”
After all, spiders are a good luck omen, especially when it comes to money.
The fact it popped up from nowhere when the issue of “residuals” was being discussed underscores (and proves) my point, doesn’t it.
Fortunately, the gang at Fox was inclined to show mercy to the hapless little bug nearly caught in a human deathtrap.
Uh-huh!
One staffer delicately scooped up the little devil and tossed him outside in the wild.
Whew!
That was a close call, wasn’t it?
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