XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: bogusname@nj.rr.com   
      
   On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:42:37 GMT, Al Smith    
   wrote:   
      
   >> I've been watching Trek for over 35 years, and he doesn't owe me a thing.   
   >> He deserves to be well-paid if they want him to sign on for something like   
   >> that.   
   >   
   >I'll tell you what it is. Shatner's a professional actor. The   
   >acting profession is cutthroat. You're only popular as long as you   
   >have some fans and some name recognition. As soon as you turn   
   >cold, agents and producers and directors don't even want to know   
   >that you are alive, because they are scared to death you will come   
   >asking them for a favor. 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.   
   >Everyone is out for himself or herself. It's dog eat dog.   
      
   Not according to "Woodie Alan" in "Crimes and Misdemeanors," I think   
   it was. He was explaining life to his niece and said something like,   
   "It's a 'dog eat dog' world -- except in show business, where it's a   
   'dog doesn't return other dog's phone call' world."   
      
   >Shatner has made a good living in this world for the past fifty   
   >years or so. He knows it inside out. He's a part of it. He plays   
   >by its rules. And one of its rules is that you don't do any   
   >favors, unless there's something in it for you. Shatner must not   
   >see any advantage to him, personally, if he appears on   
   >"Enterprise" -- and I agree with him, it is not to his advantage.   
      
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