 According to the April 21, 1958 edition of "Time Magazine", as an  addendum to its cover story on Alec Guinness (qv), in 1957,  Laurence Olivier (qv) turned down a Hollywood offer of $250,000  for one motion picture. Instead of making the movie and pocketing  the dosh (worth approximately $1.7 million in 2005 dollars), Olivier  preferred to take on the role of Archie Rice in  John Osborne (II) (qv)s "The Entertainer" (a role written  specifically for him) at the princely sum of £45 per week (worth  $126 in 1957 dollars at the contemporaneous exchange rate, or $856  in 2005 dollars).