Remember when Friends was still around? Those were happier times for actors–when the ones with hit shows could band together and demand sky-high salaries from their networks. TV actors JORJA FOX and GEORGE EADS, longtime supporting-cast members of CBS’s No. 1–rated drama, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, must have been clinging to that million-dollar dream when they recently asked the network for bumps in their pay. Eads never arrived on the set the first day of filming, despite having signed a letter promising CBS that he would show up for work, whereas Fox failed to sign the letter altogether. The network, in a heck of a negotiating ploy, fired them. For advice on how to find their way back from hit-show has-beendom, we suggest they get CSI: Miami compatriot David Caruso on a conference call, like now.
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