WHAT DEAD PEOPLE EARN — by Steve Nadis
It’s bad enough when PARADE prints its annual “What People Earn” article and I can get depressed about how little I earn compared to, say, Oprah or Howard Stern. But the Boston Globe had an item yesterday on the richest dead people that was even worse. Elvis, for example, earned $49 million last year even though he’s long gone. And nine others, all deceased, earned anywhere between $6 million and $44 million which by my calculus, is a good year, dead or alive. And here I am slaving away for peanuts (Speaking of “Peanuts,” Charles Schulz by the way earned $35 million), while these dead guys and gals (Marilyn Monroe, $7 million) are raking it in. Hardly makes it seem worthwhile. On the other hand, you can’t play volleyball when you’re dead.
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THAT kind of income is enough to bring me back from the dead.
Hey! There’s an idea for a B-movie: “Return of the filthy-rich zombies”.
Great idea, FW. I’ll produce it if you write it. And you know who I’ll start with on my fundraising? That’s right, you guessed it…