In my idealistic youth I used to lament a system that paid preachers, ballet dancers and poets even less than schoolteachers and policemen while showering millions on entertainers, spoiled kids and people who ship jobs overseas.

Could Maitland have hated Kelly and Brian for being spoiled, rich kids who had never had to struggle?

They also had to cope with teachers and Russian students who thought they were spoiled kids paying for a lark at a school most aspiring Russian actors can only dream of attending.

We were spoiled kids with cars who would head east looking for the really bad girls that our mean old nuns and priests warned us about.

They think we're spoiled little rich kids.

I'm told she was a tough old matri, but the old lady I remember was sweet, and loved to spoil kids.