# Julia Luis Dreyfus finally gets some name recognition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 6, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-luis-dreyfus-finally-gets-some-name-recognition/538484 "2010-05-06T04:53:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-luis-dreyfus-finally-gets-some-name-recognition/538484/1 "2010-05-06T04:53:21Z")
Really, guys, would it have killed you to do a quick check on Wikipedia? Story [here](http://www.popeater.com/2010/05/05/hollywood-walk-fame-julia-louis-dreyfus-typo/). ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-luis-dreyfus-finally-gets-some-name-recognition/538484/2 "2010-05-06T05:40:04Z")
I know - what’s so hard about spelling Julie Louise Dreyfus? ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-luis-dreyfus-finally-gets-some-name-recognition/538484/3 "2010-05-06T06:37:52Z")
Like she’s earned a place next to John Wayne, Orson Welles, and Katherine Hepburn! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-luis-dreyfus-finally-gets-some-name-recognition/538484/4 "2010-05-06T06:42:49Z")
J’accuse! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-luis-dreyfus-finally-gets-some-name-recognition/538484/5 "2010-05-06T10:32:39Z")
She was pretty cool about it. Good for her. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-luis-dreyfus-finally-gets-some-name-recognition/538484/6 "2010-05-07T03:37:08Z")
Well, if she’d just spell it Louie like an American, she wouldn’t have trouble. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-luis-dreyfus-finally-gets-some-name-recognition/538484/7 "2010-05-07T04:14:55Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Like she’s earned a place next to John Wayne, Orson Welles, and Katherine Hepburn! Kath **A** rine Hepburn ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-luis-dreyfus-finally-gets-some-name-recognition/538484/8 "2010-05-07T04:18:41Z")
Hey, she’s cute, and she’s a freakin’ billionaire (-ess?) She can’t seriously complain about much… ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-luis-dreyfus-finally-gets-some-name-recognition/538484/9 "2010-05-07T06:40:04Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Kath **A** rine Hepburn I don’t think she capitalizes the A. But you were close. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-luis-dreyfus-finally-gets-some-name-recognition/538484/10 "2010-05-07T12:53:31Z")
> [@](#): > > Hey, she’s cute, and she’s a freakin’ billionaire (-ess?) She can’t seriously complain about much… I’m assuming you’re talking about her supposed Seinfeld salary. But a lot of people don’t realize Dreyfus (and Alexander and Richards) never collected the widely reported salary they had negotiated. In their negotiations for the tenth season, the three actors stuck together and insisted a major raise. The show, faced with the prospect of losing three of its four regulars, gave in and agreed to give them $600,000 per episode in the upcoming season. But then Seinfeld, who was one of the show’s owners as well as its star (and who had been getting a million dollars per episode as an actor on top of his ownership money) decided to end the show and not have a tenth season. The other three never received their new salary. There was reportedly a lot of ill will over this decision at the time. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-luis-dreyfus-finally-gets-some-name-recognition/538484/11 "2010-05-07T13:44:43Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’m assuming you’re talking about her supposed Seinfeld salary. But a lot of people don’t realize Dreyfus (and Alexander and Richards) never collected the widely reported salary they had negotiated. > > In their negotiations for the tenth season, the three actors stuck together and insisted a major raise. The show, faced with the prospect of losing three of its four regulars, gave in and agreed to give them $600,000 per episode in the upcoming season. > > But then Seinfeld, who was one of the show’s owners as well as its star (and who had been getting a million dollars per episode as an actor on top of his ownership money) decided to end the show and not have a tenth season. The other three never received their new salary. > > There was reportedly a lot of ill will over this decision at the time. Pretty sure **Hail Ants** is talking about the money she will likely inherit when her father, Gerard Louis-Dreyfus, dies. [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/10/2004/LIR.jhtml?passListId=10&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&uniqueId=DDGH&datatype=Person) has him valued at roughly $2.9 billion. If she gets all that, she’ll wind up way more wealthy than Paris Hilton and seemingly much more well-adjusted. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-luis-dreyfus-finally-gets-some-name-recognition/538484/12 "2010-05-07T13:51:37Z")
When the DVDs of the show came out the other actors declined to promote them because they were not getting any money. Seinfeld cut a deal to pay them so they ended up plugging the DVDs on various talk shows. Seinfeld went off the air in 98 and back then nobody thought that DVDs of a TV show would sell. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-luis-dreyfus-finally-gets-some-name-recognition/538484/13 "2010-05-07T13:51:40Z")
She’s also been in a second successful sitcom for the last few years, and _Seinfeld_ still runs in syndication everywhere. So she does okay even without her inheritance. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-luis-dreyfus-finally-gets-some-name-recognition/538484/14 "2010-05-07T20:28:50Z")
> [@carlb](#): > > Pretty sure **Hail Ants** is talking about the money she will likely inherit when her father, Gerard Louis-Dreyfus, dies. [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/10/2004/LIR.jhtml?passListId=10&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&uniqueId=DDGH&datatype=Person) has him valued at roughly $2.9 billion. If she gets all that, she’ll wind up way more wealthy than Paris Hilton and seemingly much more well-adjusted. Yeah, not to mention prettier, classier, and about a million times smarter! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-luis-dreyfus-finally-gets-some-name-recognition/538484/15 "2010-05-08T07:15:19Z")
Funny, today at work we were talking about how she doesn’t get the recognition she deserves. And now this!