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Screenwriting from Iowa- Kenya Barris—The One Hundred Million Dollar ManBack in the ’70s actor Lee Majors was The Six Million Dollar Man. I don’t know what $6 million dollars in 1974 would be worth today, but Kenya Barris’ $100 million dollar deal with Netflix makes him—if not bionic (like Lee Majors character)—quite a wealthy writer/producer by any measure. And Barris wasn’t hurting for coin. The […]Scott W. Smith
- Kenya Barris—The One Hundred Million Dollar Man
