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   From: kwicker_erase_this_part@ameritech.net   
      
   "Billy Todd"  wrote in message   
   news:okhah0t0oujm3se0pc0tncpvfc6v9tfqu5@4ax.com...   
   > On 7 Aug 2004 14:10:58 -0400, wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr)   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > >In article ,   
   > >"Ken from Chicago"  said:   
   > >   
   > >[ from an interview with David Gerrold: ]   
   > >   
   > >>> About working on TNG:   
   > >>>   
   > >>> "Well, actually I was supposed to be a producer, but they kept   
   > >>> whittling my duties.  And my title.  And my pay.  And I   
   > >>> finally got the very clear message that Gene's lawyer didn't   
   > >>> like me.  And that whatever Gene promised me, the lawyer was   
   > >>> going to take away.  And the lawyer was afraid that Gene was   
   > >>> going to lose control of the show.  So what he was doing was   
   > >>> significantly undermining everybody that might be a threat to   
   > >>> Gene, so that he could stay in control.  And he appointed   
   > >>> himself chief of staff.  And the result was that we had a   
   > >>> lawyer running the show.  A lawyer who had no knowledge of how   
   > >>> to do television.  No knowledge of what Star Trek was supposed   
   > >>> to be.  And he was re-writing scripts.  [...] I was the second   
   > >>> or third person to leave, but there were 30 other people who   
   > >>> followed me out the door in that first season alone."   
   > >>   
   > >> Um, the NAME of this lawyer wouldn't happen to be "Richard   
   > >> Arnold" would it?   
   > >   
   > >I was thinking that too, but Gerrold does give the name later in   
   > >the interview.  I'm too lazy to look it up right now, but I do   
   > >remember that it was no one I'd ever heard of before.   
   >   
   > Forgive my ignorance. Who is Richard Arnold?   
   >   
   > --   
   > Billy Todd    WTodd@Spambegone.please.comporium.net   
   > "If there's anything Usenet has a rampant trade surplus on, it's shit."   
   >     John S. Novak, III   
      
   He's the one that turned Roddenberry against my favorite writer, Peter Allen   
   David. He's done other stuff people are miffed at, but that's my beef   
   against him.   
      
   -- Ken from Chicago (who still has trouble believing that following   
   Roddenberry's death that people were lining up to fire Arnold)   
      
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