To put it all in perspective (sort of), the great silent film actor Lon Chaney received $2500 per week when he made The Hunchback of Notre Dame for Universal Pictures in 1923. Chaney made almost $60,000 plus contract bonuses from the six-month shoot. He made almost twice as much in a week as most people made in a year. Signor V.
"For me, there's only my wife..."
"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
"It was a grass harp... And we listened."
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"
"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."
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