Act now for equality
Jennifer Lawrence has topped the rich list of highest-earning actresses by raking in £34million last year.
Quite an achievement by a star who has admitted her desire to be “liked” and not appear “difficult” has kept her from demanding more money for movies.
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Last week we learned Scots women are paid on average £10,862 less than men, 46 years after the introduction of the Equal Pay Act.
Meanwhile, topearning actor Robert Downey Jr earned £60.6million in 2015.
Anger is long overdue, in Hollywood and here.
His ongoing presence there was strangely appropriate, the allegations against him lingering like the bad smell these games have emitted.
He has been formally accused of ticket touting, alleged to have tried to sell the entire Irish seating allocation for the opening and closing ceremonies. He denies it.
But his $900-a-day allowance – spending money on top of the freebie f ive- star suites and meals – as an executive of the International Olympic Committee has been temporarily suspended pending the investigation.
That’s likely to be the last thing on his mind as he languishes in the notorious Bangu Prison. I don’t know much about these things but don’t they use different currency in the slammer? Cigarettes, perhaps, or Olympic button badges? Whatever.
A corruption case is not the kind of legacy we had been encouraged to expect from the Olympics.
Hickey may well still be inside in 10 days when the curtain goes up on the Paralympic Games but we have no reason to suspect ticketing shenanigans with that one.
There’s not exactly a clamour for seats. An estimated 88 per cent of them are unsold. Around 2.4million tickets are still for sale – and that’s a conservative estimate.
Venues are likely to be emptier than a third division football ground on a wet Wednesday in December. And in a blatant insult to the Paralympians who’ve battled against adversity to compete, the Rio organising committee don’t seem too bothered. They’ve taken discrimination and put it on a global stage. Genuine heroes slighted. It’s a scandal.
Having only just scraped together enough dosh to plug the holes in the main Olympic budget, it seems there’s nothing much left for the Paralympics. Seven years of planning and this is what we’re presented with. Only now they’re looking for extra sponsors.
Really got to wonder why the 98 members – and 36 honorary members – of the IOC didn’t get this sewn up when they awarded the Olympics to Rio. Anyway, $900 a day would