XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: elvisgumpNO@SPAM.bellsouth.net   
      
   in article n7cgn01mi87n5qbbbpqp4vd0035b7tt29e@4ax.com, Eric Newman at   
   bogusname@nj.rr.com wrote on 10/21/2004 04:50 PM:   
      
   > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:52:22 GMT, Al Smith    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> Shatner was the star, clearly. The whole series was focused on   
   >> Kirk. It's sad that he had to have Gene verbally affirm the   
   >> obvious. Nemoy got all the attention because his character was   
   >> more interesting, but Shatner was the center.   
   >   
   > Well, you spelled *one* Jewish guy's name right.   
      
   What is it all of a sudden people are spelling Nimoy's name as "Nemoy"? Is   
   this some new, vague insult?   
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    That is the fatality of faith and the lesson of romance."   
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