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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:   
   > weberm@polaris.net delivered unto us this message:   
   >> 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 did a search on on-set tantrums from him, and I found one story from   
   >the first season which ends which everybody having a good laugh about it   
   >all. I knew immediately that it was a planted story to confuse the   
   >search results for things like "Patrick Stewart throws a fit." Since it   
   >was clearly planted, I figured there must have been a series of other   
   >tantrums to be concealed.   
   >   
   >The captain's chair, really? Part of the set? Was he going nuts and   
   >confusing himself with Picard? :D   
   >   
   >   
   >> >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.   
   >   
   >You know, I never understood why some people insisted Picard was sexy.   
      
   Some people think Mr Clean is sexy.   
      
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