XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: elvisgumpNO@SPAM.bellsouth.net   
      
   in article m_Rdd.151583$Np3.6560673@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca, Al Smith at   
   invalid@address.com wrote on 10/21/2004 12:04 PM:   
      
   >>> When an actor is fired in Hollywood, they usually don't even know it until   
   >>> their name is removed from their dressing room door. Nobody has enough   
   >>> decency to tell them.   
      
   >> So you want me to believe they would still have their name on the call sheet   
   >> for the day, but would already have their dressing room cleared out?   
      
   > Sounds strange, I know, but I've heard several actors on canceled   
   > series say this in interviews and on talk shows. They showed up   
   > for work, only to find that they no longer had jobs. Happens to   
   > writers, also. They are given offices in studios. They go in to   
   > write one morning, only to discover that somebody else has their   
   > office. Something like this happened to Leonard Nimoy, I remember   
   > reading in his autobiography "I Am Spock" but I can't recall the   
   > details right now.   
      
   Well there was one story that Roddenberry had verbally hired Nimoy to star   
   as the android Questor in the pilot 2-hour movie that wound up ultimately   
   not selling. Story was Nimoy told Solow and Justman that Nimoy showed up for   
   his costume fitting and that the costumer was puzzled and only then did   
   Nimoy find out that he'd be replaced in the role. Roddenberry was   
   legendarily chicken about confrontations and firing people. IIRC Nimoy's   
   tale was that he chuckled, used to this sort of treatment from TOS, thanked   
   the costumer person and went home and he and Roddenberry never spoke of it.   
      
   > It's a cold, cold profession, and you need the   
   > skin of an armadillo to survive as an actor. Shatner has armadillo   
   > skin.   
      
   Not really if you read some of the accounts of TOS production. Shatner got   
   paid several times over what Nimoy made (better agent I guess) and was   
   endlessly miffed that Nimoy became the breakout star even though he had   
   second billing. It got so tense that Solow and Justman's book said they   
   forced the issue when Shatner was demanding to know who the star of the show   
   really was and cornered Roddenberry in his office where he had to stop   
   having it both ways with both actors and blurted out that Shatner was the   
   'star'. It was fascinating that grown-ups could be so vain and juvenile but   
   there it was.   
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