panoptes{at}iquest.net wrote:
> Richard Fallstrom wrote:
>> Something occurred to me about that. I wonder how much in bribes the
>> IRS has taken to look the other way?
> 
> As long as the total profit for the corporation matches, the IRS
> doesn't care how much comes from ticket sales, how much comes from
> video rentals, how much comes from the wholly-owned craft services
> subsidiary, how much comes from the wholly-owned film processing
> subsidiary, or whatever.  But of course, an artist who signs for a
> piece of the profit doesn't get a percentage of things like the craft
> services action of the film processing action.

Aren't there laws in force about "company-town" offenses? Or, on the 
other hand, food-quality laws? Seems to me that if the studios are 
actually making all these gazillions of simoleons by /catering/, there 
must be /something/ naughty going on, on one side or the other.

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