She had "Pretty Woman".
He had "St. Elsewhere".
A lie! A damnable lie, sir!
He had already won an Oscar. [for "Glory"] She hadn't. Plus he'd just done
Malcolm X - which insisted on his new-Poitier status.
And her Pretty Woman momentum was stalling. Her track record since then had been 1 hit-from-nothing ["Sleeping With The Enemy"], 1 disappointment-in-relation-to-cost ["Flatiners"], and 2 notable flops ["Dying Young" and "Hook"]. A 1-1-2 record is not going to terrify anyone in the NFL.
So the disparity in their relative commercial value is by no means as wide as this dismissive sneer makes it sound!