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#4. Star Trek: The Next Generation Was Terrorized by a Dying Despot and Body Odor

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Post by blackoutcreature on 3 hours ago

Roddenberry was very much like Stan Lee. They had a really good grip on 60's pop culture and delivered a product that appealed to that generation. Their biggest problem was the 60's ended and they were never able to move on from it. Look at those early TNG episodes - the original depiction of the Ferengi's, having the ships psychiatrist as a member of the Bridge crew, the portrayal of those people in "The Neutral Zone". The whole thing is a perfect example of a dyed-in-the-wool 60's hippie trying to make sense of 80's pop culture.

Post by BorneAgain on 3 hours ago
Its been interesting reading Shatner's books about ST in conjunction with Bob Justman and Herbert Solow's book about the making of TOS, and how tricky it was getting the show on the air. One of the big conclusions I've come away with is there seemed to be two Gene Roddenberrys.

The one from the original run of the show, who could be a bit d***ish in rewriting stories and a touch money obsessed (him writing unused lyrics to the theme to get half the royalties and awkwardly inserting the IDIC pin in episodes to sell to fans), but still a fairly talented producer, showrunner, and script supervisor, and one who still understood good tension between characters for drama.

I'm really curious what exactly happened to him in the 70s that turned him into the guy obsessed with maintaining the absolute utopic vision where crewmembers don't fight over anything, people don't grieve for loved ones, Starfleet is in no way a military organization, and a story with the crewmembers having assassinate JFK to fix the timeline makes for the ideal Trek film. Because while Gene wasn't exactly a saint during the original show as noted above, he still seemed far away from the almost dogmatic zealot constantly demanding writers place stories in the Roddenberry box.

#3. The Power Rangers Crew Was Full of Raging Homophobes

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-tv-shows-you-loved-that-were-nightmare-behind-scenes_p2/

#2. The A-Team Had a Strict "No Girls Allowed" Policy

#1. The Cast of Saved by the Bell Had to Constantly Deal With Screech's ********* Antics

I heard "Alf" was a nightmare when the cameras were off.

snl is well known for cast members not always getting along but one thing about them is at least they have always been honest with the fans about it

Here's two more..."Gimme a Break" and "I Love Lucy"...

Despite Nell Carter getting along with the supporting cast...she didn't stand the 1st Director, when Hal Cooper stepped-in she felt comfortable since he had her sing more on the show, which she (Nell Carter) wanted to do in the 1st place.

Vivian Vance gave a lot of grief with the cast of "I Love Lucy", she even didn't want to perform with William Frawley (Fred Mertz) and Frawley was VERY upset when Vance would backbite him...he even said "I wish she could stay in Kansas)!

If William Frawley was alive in 1969, he'd say THIS song is about Vivian!...

HO_NSWFmEdc

Oddly enough...Desi STILL loved Lucy after divorce and remarriage.

"All In The Family" and "Sanford and Son" have to be up there, mainly due to personality conflicts and power struggles between Norman Lear and the lead characters.

Two And A Half Men
Roseanne
Grace Under Fire
A Different World, Season One

"Alice" was no picnic to work on, with Linda Lavin always upset for being "upstaged" by the rest of the cast.

I always heard that the lady who played aunt bee on The Andy Griffith Show was mean in real life not sure if its true or not .

The A-Team Had a Strict "No Girls Allowed" Policy

That's not really true- Amy Amanda Allen (aka "AAA") was a regular character throughout the first season. And there were certainly plenty of female guest stars on The A-Team. That doesn't mean the show was troubled behind the scenes. It's just that The A-Team was made as a man's show, according to interviews with one of the stars, Dirk Benedict, and they were unabashed about that. And I feel it's okay to have some shows like that. I mean, I don't see anyone complaining that "Girls" has a "No Boys Allowed" policy.
Anyway, I generally take most all of Cracked's articles with a huge grain of salt. I'm not saying that any of them are necessarily untrue; but I do think some may be blown out of proportion.

my cousin used to work on COMMUNITY and quit because he said the cast was really mean and not very nice to work with, especially Chevy Chase who he called "a real son-of-a-*****"
He also used to work on THAT 70s SHOW and 3rd ROCK FROM THE SUN and he says some of the 70S cast was the same way, but the 3RD ROCK cast was the complete opposite.

That's not really true- Amy Amanda Allen (aka "AAA") was a regular character throughout the first season. And there were certainly plenty of female guest stars on The A-Team. That doesn't mean the show was troubled behind the scenes. It's just that The A-Team was made as a man's show, according to interviews with one of the stars, Dirk Benedict, and they were unabashed about that. And I feel it's okay to have some shows like that. I mean, I don't see anyone complaining that "Girls" has a "No Boys Allowed" policy.
Anyway, I generally take most all of Cracked's articles with a huge grain of salt. I'm not saying that any of them are necessarily untrue; but I do think some may be blown out of proportion.
yea, I feel the same way about CRACKED.

On Sanford and Son, it was common knowledge that Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson used and abused cocaine. I recently read from a writer that Redd would miss days from the set, and hated rehearing, and was high when he was there. However, on Fridays when the shows were taped, Foxx had his A game on, and put on a brilliant performance. Demond Wilson basically went nuts on the cocaine and would get violent. For whatever reason, Wilson refused to rejoin Foxx when NBC rebooted the show (which became just 'Sanford') for whatever reason.

Both Foxx and Wilson killed the golden goose. Wilson got sober and became a minister, while basically I think Foxx just liked to get high and party and was functional. In the end, Foxx was broke and owed the IRS everything. Eddie. Murphy stepped in and paid for Foxx's funeral.

Finally about Sanford and Son, basically all the older black actors have worked with each other for decades since the so called "chitin circuit". Foxx and Lawanda Page ( Aunt Esther) were best friends and Foxx was the one to get her on his show. The guys who played Bubba, Grady, Skillet, others have been with each other a long time which made a tight unit, which kept things going as long as it did.

Good Times-John Amos had battles with Lear or producers over the JJ character.
Laverne & Shirley-Penny and Cindy didn't get along after the show took off, it was the reason Betty Garrett left the show.

my cousin used to work on COMMUNITY and quit because he said the cast was really mean and not very nice to work with, especially Chevy Chase who he called "a real son-of-a-*****"
He also used to work on THAT 70s SHOW and 3rd ROCK FROM THE SUN and he says some of the 70S cast was the same way, but the 3RD ROCK cast was the complete opposite.

So he's Chevy Chase and we're NOT! I can be an *******, but if Chase is that bad...I'll say I'm NOT Chevy Chase, but he is...dumb-****!

But does your cousin think that Kurtwood Smith thought that some of the cast members were dumb-asses?

Three's Company-Suzanne Somers didn't get along with the producers or the rest of the cast when she wanted more money and eventually got fired. This went on long after the show ended.

Back to "Gimme a Break", though Nell Carter enjoyed working with the Lawrence Brothers, Hal Cooper, and Dolph Sweet just to name a few...Rosie O'Donnel hated what Nell Carter did on the show...call everyone as their character names. Though this was easy for Joey and Matthew...Carter called John Hoyt "Grandpa", Thelma Hopkins "Addie", and Rosetta LeNoire "Mama"...this was a Stanislavski style of acting.

It's also proven more than once that Nell Carter LOVED working with the cast of "Gimme a Break"! She wanted to have Michaelsen and Hendler on for the 7th Season...if there was one...but the producers wouldn't have them back! carter even cried when the show abruptly ended and (I think) she got support from Hoyt and Hopkins.

Surprised about ALF not getting along. I did hear about how Andy Griffith and Aunt Bee didnt like each other. Obviously, what about Laverne and Shirley.

http://whatculture.com/tv/10-tv-shows-disrupted-behind-scenes-feuds.php

10. Firings On The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air (http://whatculture.com/tv/10-tv-shows-disrupted-behind-scenes-feuds.php/2)

Interestingly enough, although the Fresh Prince had a really good relationship with his Aunt Viv on the show, a great big conflict blew up behind the scenes between the two actors. In 1993, actress Janet Hubert was fired from the show, replaced by Daphne Maxwell-Reid for the beginning of the fourth season. The official line was that there were contractual disagreements (Hubert got pregnant, which apparently wasn’t allowed in her contract), but at the heart of the matter were off-screen fights between her and the show’s star, Will Smith.

Since the show’s demise, every single cast member has weighed in on the matter. While it basically devolves into a giant case of he said she said, it seems likely that there were ego and behavioral issues on the set. Who was the biggest offender? The world may never know. But recently, Hubert has said that she’d like to put the past in the past and finally have a reunion with the cast. We’ll see, Aunt Viv. We’ll see.

9. Tensions Between Chevy Chase And Dan Harmon Disrupt Community (http://whatculture.com/tv/10-tv-shows-disrupted-behind-scenes-feuds.php/3)

Highly publicized behind the scenes disputes have plagued the sitcom Community for years on end. Most of the issues stemmed from tension between Chevy Chase, who enjoyed a career renaissance from his time on the show, and creator Dan Harmon. The whole thing started because Dan Harmon said some not so kind things about Chevy (who is apparently not the easiest man in the world to work with) at the show’s wrap party, enraging the actor and embarrassing him in front of his wife and daughter. Fair enough. But then Chevy went on to leave a blistering voicemail for Harmon, using pretty much every curse word known to man, which was of course leaked to the media.
This drama culminated when Chase walked off the set on the last day of shooting, meaning that they were unable to film certain scenes because there was no time to pick up the footage at a later date. In the end, nobody really won. Chevy Chase left the show during the fourth season, Dan Harmon stepped down at the end of the third (resuming his show-running duties for the fifth season), and as of this week the show has been cancelled. Thanks a lot, guys.

8. Andy Kaufman Gets Bored Working On Taxi, Causes Chaos (http://whatculture.com/tv/10-tv-shows-disrupted-behind-scenes-feuds.php/4)

Taxi was a hit television show in the 70s that featured one of the most bizarre actors ever to walk the earth: Andy Kaufman. Despite the show making him a major star, he resented the medium of the sitcom and was openly contemptuous of Taxi. He was often bored with the material give to him, and entertained himself by creating alter ego Tony Clifton. The rest of the cast, especially Jeff Conway and Judd Hirsch, were infuriated by his behavior, considering him incredibly unprofessional in the way that he voiced his criticism of the show.

One day, when Kaufman showed up on set as Tony Clifton, Hirsch and Conway physically confronted him. As Tony, he reportedly delayed rehearsal while he was being visited in his trailer by two prostitutes, and when changed co-star Hirsch’s lines during a run-through. Although the famous incident in which Kaufman was forcibly removed from the set by security was a stunt, the angry reaction of the cast members was all too real.

7. Cat Fights Led To Charmed Departure (http://whatculture.com/tv/10-tv-shows-disrupted-behind-scenes-feuds.php/5)

This is the first of Shannen Doherty’s major blowouts on this list. She doesn’t exactly have a reputation for being the easiest person in the world to work with, and Charmed was no exception. Rumors of fights between Doherty and costar Alyssa Milano plagued the production for years, and only intensified when Doherty unceremoniously left after the third season. Milano has said in interviews that the show was like being back in high school with all the drama, and that’s probably a pretty accurate depiction, regardless of who was at fault.

Reportedly, Doherty and costar Holly Marie Combs had been best friends for years before getting cast as sisters on Charmed, so you can imagine that there were some factions on set that formed, even if the actors had the best of intentions. Regardless, at the end of season three, Doherty’s character was killed off, making the powerful trio of witches into a slightly less powerful duo. That is, until they discovered their long lost half-sister, played by Rose McGowan and a very blatant plot element to keep the central conceit of the story working.

6. Alleged Racial Slurs And Diva Behavior Curtails Grey’s Anatomy (http://whatculture.com/tv/10-tv-shows-disrupted-behind-scenes-feuds.php/6)

The drama that took place behind the scenes of Grey’s Anatomy was probably one of the most well-publicized cast meltdowns in television history. So much so that it completely overshadowed the actual drama on the prime-time soap opera. The story goes that Isaiah Washington and Patrick Dempsey almost came to blows on the set and during the heat of the moment, Washington used a homophobic slur. It was widely reported that Washington had used the derogatory term against fellow cast member T.R. Knight, who came out as gay shortly thereafter, and Washington’s career took a swan dive. He gave a forced apology to the LGBT community, but the damage had been done. In June 2007, ABC announced that they would not be renewing his contract, and one of the show’s most popular characters left after the third season.

This is, of course, to say nothing of the repeated rumors of backstage diva behavior from Katherine Heigl, who had made it clear that she wanted off the show after her film career showed signs of taking off. She certainly wasn’t shy about criticizing the show, publicly stating that she didn’t submit her name for Emmy consideration in 2008 because she didn’t think the material she had been given was worthy of it. Needless to say, this created a little bit of tension between her and the cast and crew.

5. Diva Behavior On Beverly Hills, 90210 (http://whatculture.com/tv/10-tv-shows-disrupted-behind-scenes-feuds.php/7)

At a certain point, an actress needs to stop blaming other people for problems on set and accept the possibility that maybe she’s the problem. Shannen Doherty hasn’t had a smooth ride on any of the shows she’s been on, with at least two of them ending with major drama. To be fair, a lot of the problems step from having a group of teenage actresses all working together, which is pretty much a recipe for consistent backstage friction. Cast members have referred to Shannen Doherty has having a lot of opinions, which is probably the nicest way to say diva.

Doherty was booted from the show, with her character Brenda Walsh unceremoniously shipped off the the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. At the time, they left her departure open-ended, so that the character could come back after a season or two if tensions dissipated. But it was not to be. Brenda was never seen on the show again (although she did pop up on Beverly Hills, 90210′s spinoff show, Melrose Place), and Shannen Doherty began her illustrious career as being a professional difficult actor.

4. Glee Drama! (http://whatculture.com/tv/10-tv-shows-disrupted-behind-scenes-feuds.php/8)

Would anyone really be surprised to learn that a television show about a high school glee club, basically the epicenter for teenage hormones and in-fighting, would have its share of behind the scenes drama? There have been on-going rumors of tension between stars Lea Michele and Naya Rivera pretty much as soon as the show became popular. Quite frankly, we believe it. Lea Michele has always come off as the type of person who could easily turn into a diva, and Rivera seems like the sort who tells people exactly what she thinks of them.

When it comes to these kinds of rumors, there hasn’t been any definitive proof either way, but it’s generally a good rule of thumb to assume that where there’s smoke, there’s fire. You can wave aside one or two rumors of cast feuding as being made up or exaggerated by the media, but when we’ve been hearing about it for years on end — well, it’s probably safe to say that there is no love lost between the two young actresses. It’s actually a little surprising that there isn’t more drama on the set of Glee, with all the highly theatrical personalities floating around.

3. Growing Pains – Pornographers? (http://whatculture.com/tv/10-tv-shows-disrupted-behind-scenes-feuds.php/9)

Under the veneer of a perfect American family, a hotbed of controversy developed. The problems really started, as they often do, when one of the cast members found God. All of a sudden, Kirk Cameron didn’t feel morally comfortable with some of the story lines the show was pursuing, and demanded that he had a larger say in the content of Growing Pains. He insisted that the producers fire Julie McCullough, the actress who played his fiancee, because of her history as a Playboy magazine centerfold. His efforts caused a rift among the cast and enraged show producers so much that three of them resigned in protest after Cameron called ABC and accused them of being pornographers.

While Cameron has since apologized to the cast (although, interestingly enough, not to McCullough) for some of his behavior, his newfound religious beliefs had a profound impact on the show in its later seasons. Any story elements that seemed too adult or racy had to be cut out, along with anything that had mild innuendo or the merest suggestion of premarital sex. And when one of your cast members is a harsher censor than the television network that actually airs your show, that’s saying something.

2. Years Of Oddity – Saturday Night Live (http://whatculture.com/tv/10-tv-shows-disrupted-behind-scenes-feuds.php/10)

Saturday Night Live is a show that’s been on the air for nearly 40 years and is filled with people who do live entertainment for a living. Of course there were going to be backstage feuds. With a large ensemble cast and a new celebrity host every week, it was inevitable. And over the years, there have been some whoppers. Back when the show was young, there was the legendary stand off between Chevy Chase and Bill Murray. Chevy left the show at its peak to pursue a film career, and when he came back to host for the first time since leaving, there was understandable a little bit of tension between him and his jilted ex-cast. The two actors came to blows backstage, in what Murray recalls as a very ‘Don’t touch my face!’ kind of fight.

There was also no love lost between John Belushi and many of the female writers and performers. John didn’t rate female comedians very highly, and several of the women who were on the show with him have accused the actor of sabotaging sketches that were created by female writers. Allegedly, he would give half-hearted performances in the read-through for any of their skits.

But perhaps most bizarrely, there was the odd relationship between Victoria Jackson and her fellow cast. Many of the people she worked with took exception to her strange voice and ditzy act, while Victoria responded by deciding that it was her mission as a Christian to help her castmates find Jesus. And as you could probably guess, her Bible audio books distributed as Christmas presents and repeated warnings about going to Hell did not go over particularly well with her fellow actors on the show.

1. Charlie Sheen – Two And a Half Men (http://whatculture.com/tv/10-tv-shows-disrupted-behind-scenes-feuds.php/11)

Of the original two and a half men, only one hasn’t had a major blowout with the show (the always reliable, criminally underrated Jon Cryer). We were treated to the sight of Charlie Sheen self-destructing in spectacular fashion, showcasing increasingly erratic behavior that could only point to a huge amount of drugs and a massively over-inflated ego. He had a falling out (to put it mildly) with showrunner Chuck Lorre that left the future of the show in jeopardy. Charlie Sheen was removed from Two and a Half Men, while his character was burned in effigy (not literally, but pretty close to it).

Ashton Kutcher was brought in as a slightly less amusing millionaire for Cryer to mooch off of, and the show seemed like it was finally stabilizing. Until the next loose cannon revealed himself, that is. Seemingly out of nowhere, little Angus T. Jones made a public statement calling the show filth (you know, that show that will make it possible for him to spend the rest of his life lying on the beach somewhere), and encouraging audiences everywhere not to watch it. While he may have a point, it’s hard not to feel a little resentful of someone so blatantly biting the hand that feeds them.

I have never liked Andy Kaufman and then liked him even less after reading about him after his death.

The guy was a jerk about his routine. He refused to all it comedy or himself a comedian. He hated sitcoms, yet he did one, and alienated himself from the rest of the cast of Taxi, which probably had some of the most classically trained actors and comedians out there. At least we got to see Christopher Lloyd who shared the duties as the "goofball" character.

Kaufman would take the stage and instead of comedy (like the man was funny in the first place, and not weird and crude like he was) would start reading The Great Gatsby for a long period of time.

Then Kaufman for some sick reason decided to wrestle women for entertainment and called himself the "inter gender champion". He then went to my city of Memphis to play act as a "heel" while publically insulting the people of my city saying we smell, we are stupid, yokels, whatever, because he was from Hollywood. It was a work, an act, but Kaufman was an a..hole.

I usually have sympathy for someone who died in their 30's, at very least, the human race has been spared his type of "entertainment" for the past 30 years.

One of the most talked about angles in wrestling history, when Andy got slapped by Jerry Lawler on David Letterman's show. To be honest, from what I saw, Andy was a pretty good bad guy in Memphis and the crowd HATED him.

I will say that the Growing Pains one is mind boggling. Pornographers? Really? I understand that he found God which is great, but then that becomes trying to shove your beliefs down people's throats. I say that because if you've watched Growing Pains, that show was never crude or anything. Even if it tackled tough subjects, there was always a positive message before and after Kirk found God.

I also think there was tension on "Family Matters"...especially with Jaleel White. He (White) was getting tired of being Steve Urkel in the later years of "Family Matters" and it showed.

White STILL got along with the cast, but he felt he couldn't grow-up!

my cousin used to work on COMMUNITY and quit because he said the cast was really mean and not very nice to work with, especially Chevy Chase who he called "a real son-of-a-*****"
He also used to work on THAT 70s SHOW and 3rd ROCK FROM THE SUN and he says some of the 70S cast was the same way, but the 3RD ROCK cast was the complete opposite.

Just about anybody who has encountered Chevy Chase (http://lebeauleblog.com/2013/04/16/what-the-hell-happened-to-chevy-chase/) throughout his career, just about thinks that he's a major SOB. So stuff like this can't be too surprising.

yea, I've heard that.

The Facts of Life:

The directors/producers were d!cks towards certain girls who started to gain weight and develop like normal teenage girls i.e. Lisa Whelchel, Kim Fields, Nancy Mckeon. And they were a**holes towards Mindy Cohn for LOOSING weight because she was supposed to be the "fat" one. SMH.....

Oh and Lisa Whelchel admitted in her book that she would gossip to Nancy about Mindy & Kim. I think Mindy didn't get along with Molly Ringwald, that i've read.

Geri Jewell said that Charlotte Rae never liked her...

I didn't see it mentioned but I may have missed it but Desperate Housewives. Of the four original main female characters all became friends except Teri Hatcher. The other actresses hated her. Even when Vanessa Williams came on the show they liked her but hated Hatcher. This was a rumor for years she was hated but it was revealed at the end of the show.

Martin- Tisha Campbell claimed that Martin was sexually harassing her behind the scenes.

The sitcom Cheers. It's well known during the early seasons that Shelly Long and the rest of the cast never got along. But I've always heard Long say nothing but nice things about Nicholas Colasanto, so apparently he liked her. He of course played Coach until he died and Woody Harrelson came on to play Woody Boyd. Kirstie Alley who replaced her when she left and the other cast members got along quite well.

Ed.

I don't think that's completely true. Shelley and the rest of the cast simply didn't socialize after working hours. To Shelley, Cheers was a job, and when working hour were over, she went home to her family. I doubt there was any real animosity there. She was there for the finale, and appeared three times on "Frasier".

I believe that Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall didn't get along behind the scenes of "Sex and the City".

I don't know. I've read that the other cast members of Cheers felt Shelley Long was quite stuck up and she seemed to think she was better than them and they really didn't like her (especially Rhea Perlman, so apparently she wasn't just acting LOL). I've also heard that there was work related conflict. Apparently Long was a stickler for rehearsing and the rest of the cast didn't like to rehearse so much and that really made her angry that they wouldn't rehearse like she believed they should. I suppose it could be made up but I just don't see why somebody would bother making stuff like that up if it wasn't true. And no I don't believe everything I hear or read but I've always felt like that conflict sounded pretty legitimate.

Ed.

I've heard that too about Cheers and that Rhea Pearlman especially hated Shelley Long. Long was close to Nicholas Colasanto and apparently got along with Woody Harrelson but Harrelson came in towards the end of her run there. Oddly Kirstie Alley and Rhea Pearlman became (and still are)the best of friends.

I mentioned in another thread but Long was known in the Chicago area before Cheers. She hosted a local show and appeared in commercials for a furniture store.

I read that William Shatner cause problems on the set of STAR TREK because of his ego.

The Price is Right - of course there was the tensions between Bob Barker and the original models , particularly Dian Parkinson and Holly Hallstrom. As well as some productions assistants and Rod Roddy.

Family Feud - Behind the scenes Richard Dawson clashed frequently with Mark Goodson and producer Howard Felsher, even at one point having Felsher barred from the set. Although he would reconcile with him later on.

Second host Ray Combs had a sparrings with Goodson's son Jonathan, who was the man that replaced Ray with an aging Richard Dawson.

Hollywood's Talking - not anywhere as successful or known as the former two shows but it was the first-ever hosting gig for host Geoff Edwards. According to him, Jack Barry the EP for this series was a complete jerk towards him.

Long before the sex scandal, Bill Cosby fired Carl Anthony Payne (Cockroach) because Payne refused to cut his hair.

I believe Cosby also fired Lisa Bonet from A Different World for getting pregnant, although she would return to The Cosby Show a year or two later.

Yes treky, William Shatner is notorious for his colossal ego and causing problems during the run of the original Star Trek. And probably during the making of the Star Trek movies too.

Ed.

Plus apparently him and George Takei hated each other and still do. When Takei married his best man was Walter Koenig and Nichelle Nicole but he didn't invite Shatner.

Yes treky, William Shatner is notorious for his colossal ego and causing problems during the run of the original Star Trek. And probably during the making of the Star Trek movies too.

Ed.yea, George Takei (Sulu) talked about it in his autobiography "TO THE STARS". He says that when they all got back together for the first movie they thought that so much time had passed since they did the show (20 years) that surely he'd be different. But he wasn't, and he was like that through not only the 1st movie but also the 2nd, 3rd and 4th ones. Then when they heard he was set to direct the 5th one no one was looking forward to it, but they were all pleasantly surprised because he wasn't that way at all. I forget if he said what he was like on the 6th movie.
However, Bill said in his book STAR TREK MEMORIES and the follow-up STAR TREK MOVIE MEMORIES that he honestly didn't realize he was hurting anyone with his behavior and he was just trying to do the best job he could. And when he wrote the first book he says that James Doohan (Scotty) is mad at him and in the book he apologizes if he did anything to offend him. And in the 2nd book he says that he and Doohan have since made up.
However my personal opinion is that someone's not telling the truth; since he was friends with Lenaord Nimoy up until his death and he's friends with Nicelle Nichols (Unura) and Patrick Stewart (Capt. Picard)

Yes you're right James Doohan didn't like him either. But yes he apparently was very good friends with DeForest Kelly and Leonard Nimoy. Maybe it wasn't all William Shatner's fault so who knows, but I don't think Shatner's a saint either. I've thought for a long time now he comes off kind of arrogant and seems to think quite highly of himself.

Ed.

you never know what's true and what's not true with all these stories about celebrities.

All I'm saying is I agree with the old proverb, it takes two to tango. You know if two people aren't getting along they're both usually to blame in some way.

Ed.

true

Not to mention he also supposedly disapproved of her relationship with then-fiancée Lenny Kravitz and said she was the hardest of his TV kids to work with.

He also had Phoebe Snow, the singer of the 1st Season of A Different World theme song replaced by Aretha Franklin because she was Jewish.

I don't know how true this is but Shatner is allegedly mean to fans too.

Grace Under Fire - Brett Butler caused so much problems behind the scenes with her erratic behavior that it even led to the cancellation of this show. From her constant relapses to even being inebriated enough that she allegedly flashed her breasts at Jon Paul Steuer (the second actor that played her son Quentin) that the latter had to be whisked offstage and eventually removed away from the series entirely by his mom. That move led to the arrival of Sam Corrigan playing Quentin and advancing Quentin's age to high school age. There were also rewrites and changes in directors each season. Julie White's departure was due to the increasing erratic behavior of Brett Butler. Brett entering rehab in between the end of S4 and the Fall of '97 delayed the start of S5 to November '97 until she was ready to check out of rehab. When she finally left rehab, she relapsed again to the point that ABC brass was getting more worried and increasingly impatient with her relapses that they finally pulled the plug in early 1998. Brett has never been trusted to headline another TV series since thanks to her damaging behavior.

I don't know how true this is but Shatner is allegedly mean to fans too.

It doesn't have anything to do with him telling Trek fans to "get a life!" did it?

It doesn't have anything to do with him telling Trek fans to "get a life!" did it?
:rotflmao:

for those who don't get that, Shatner hosted SNL once and they did a sketch where he was a guest speaker at a Star Trek convention. He was standing up there talking in front of all these trekys wearing shirts that said BEAM ME UP SCOTTY, Spock ears, etc. and he looked out at everyone and shouted "GET A LIFE PEOPLE!"

I don't know how true this is but Shatner is allegedly mean to fans too.
now that; I don't believe cause I met him in person once and he wasn't that way at all.

yea, George Takei (Sulu) talked about it in his autobiography "TO THE STARS". He says that when they all got back together for the first movie they thought that so much time had passed since they did the show (20 years) that surely he'd be different. But he wasn't, and he was like that through not only the 1st movie but also the 2nd, 3rd and 4th ones. Then when they heard he was set to direct the 5th one no one was looking forward to it, but they were all pleasantly surprised because he wasn't that way at all. I forget if he said what he was like on the 6th movie.
However, Bill said in his book STAR TREK MEMORIES and the follow-up STAR TREK MOVIE MEMORIES that he honestly didn't realize he was hurting anyone with his behavior and he was just trying to do the best job he could. And when he wrote the first book he says that James Doohan (Scotty) is mad at him and in the book he apologizes if he did anything to offend him. And in the 2nd book he says that he and Doohan have since made up.
However my personal opinion is that someone's not telling the truth; since he was friends with Lenaord Nimoy up until his death and he's friends with Nicelle Nichols (Unura) and Patrick Stewart (Capt. Picard)
Seems like Bill and George patched things up over time. George appeared on Shatner's Comedy Central roast about 10 years ago.

I wonder if Bud Collyer had any issues with Johnny Olsen or Mark Goodson while hosting To Tell the Truth? Remember, Sliverman wanted to replace Bud with Bert Convy at one point. would that have done anything to improve the ratings opposite Another World on NBC?

I wonder if Bud Collyer had any issues with Johnny Olsen or Mark Goodson while hosting To Tell the Truth? Remember, Sliverman wanted to replace Bud with Bert Convy at one point. would that have done anything to improve the ratings opposite Another World on NBC?i dont know about goodson or olsen but i have read that both bob stewart as well as radio actor/annhouncer jackson beck had issues with bud collyer

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Designing Women yet! The feud between creators Linda Bloodworth Thomason and Harry Thomason and star Delta Burke was a massive, huge scandal in 1990!