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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:   
   > Melissa Hollingsworth  wrote:   
   >> anim8rfsk@cox.net delivered unto us this message:   
      
   >>> TNG couldn?t keep qualified writers or story editors because of the   
   >>> working environment much of which was Patrick Stewart?s bad behavior.   
   >>> About halfway through the series run having burned through everybody   
   >>> talented they had worked their way down to Braga.   
   >>   
   >> Hunh. What was he doing?   
   >   
   >He was infamous for pulling childish crap, like if any visitor to the set,   
   >sat in the captains chair, which they all obviously would want to do he   
   >storm off the set in a hissy fit and not come back that day.   
      
   I hadn't heard about that one before.   
      
   >As far as the writers went a couple of them talked about what a nightmare   
   >it was in an article in starlog and they said he would hand them script   
   >changes he wanted. But that's not the chain of command. Actors don't tell   
   >the writers to make changes. If they want them, they go to the producer or   
   >the story, editor or a showrunner. Can you imagine what a nightmare it   
   >would be if all the actors were constantly coming to the scriptwriter with   
   >changes? And it was bad enough they'd quit.   
      
   And his insistance of getting some romantic and action eps, hence whats-her-   
   name on Risa and the Die Hard ripoff.   
      
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