Vivien Leigh didn’t like the kissing scenes with Clark Gable during the filming of Gone with the Wind…she claimed he had bad breath.
I do know that Kirstie Alley refused to appear as a guest on Frasier because she’s a devout Scientologist and disapproved of the portrayal of a psychiatrist. Regarding Cheers, it was one of those THS on E! where I saw that Bebe Neuwirth and the man who played Robin Colcord (Rebecca’s rich English boyfriend) were shocked at the level of unprofessionalism of the other actors. Both were Broadway trained, and were taught you showed up on time, ready to go, lines learned. A lot of times they would be waiting around for everyone else to show up.
One of the first famous comedy duos in American history were Gallagher and Shean. They were forever breaking up and getting the act back together. Most of the problems were because of Ed Gallagher’s alcoholism and poor work ethic compared to Al Shean. They were huge vaudeville stars in the 1910’s and 20’s.
Trivia: Al Shean’s sister, Minnie Marx, was the mother of the Marx Brothers. Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys was inspired by them.
Here is Al Shean recreating the act with a different guy playing Gallagher in a 1941 movie. Ed Gallagher had died several years earlier. It’s still very funny.
There was recently a really indepth article I think in EW or another entertainment mad about Myers and his ego and love of comedy. It had some details on what occured between the two of them. IIRC, Myers started micro-managing Wayne’s World and tried to shut Carvey out of the creative process.
back when Austin Powers came out, all my SNL nerd friends were hoping Carvey would play the villain in a sequel… don’t see that happening now.
Wow, I’ve never heard this. They seemed very friendly when promoting X-Files 2.
I think she mostly drew hate when she announced that Season 7 was the end to a magazine before announcing it to the crew and cast. Before that, I’d never heard of any trouble.
She did not attend the wrap party, if the DVD extras are to be trusted, however.
As the EW article seems to indicate, everyone hates Michael Myers.
Martin Lawrence and Tisha Campbell. IIRC she accused him of sexual harassment and refused to appear in any scenes with him. They shot the final episodes that way and watching it felt like the scenes where an actor is playing his own twin. It also meant the canceling of the last good black sitcom.
At least two of them…the ones playing Hyde and Donna…are clam worshippers. Think “Donna” is or was involved with “Hyde”'s real life brother who had a smallish part on the show, and is also a clam worshipper. Hyde, Kelso, and Fez are partners in a restaurant, I think.
Debra Winger despised Richard Gere. In an interview she said that she had to zone out during the love scenes in “An Officer and a Gentleman” because she found him disgusting.
After Shemp died Mantan Moreland “was briefly considered as a possible addition to the Three Stooges when Shemp Howard died in 1955. This prospect was disclosed by Moe Howard in a 1971 interview with film historian Michael H. Price, cited in Price’s 2007 biography of Moreland, Mantan the Funnyman, from Midnight Marquee Press of Baltimore.'”
Moreland was a very funny guy. Besser? Not so funny. With the freeing up of what blacks could do in the mid-50s, we missed a match made in Heaven.
I can still remember some very awkward Sonny & Cher episodes that they were forced to do after their messy divorce was splashed all over the headlines. A contract’s a contract I guess.
Really no surprise, but Chevy Chase was the WFS on the old SNL set. The other cast members resented him because he was paid a lot more than they were, and he didn’t let them forget it.
And they’re not actors, but I’ve heard that Joey and Johnny Ramone didn’t speak to each other for at least the last decade the Ramones were together, even though they stood about five feet from each other on stage.
I don’t think they hate each other at all, but I think Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley have the same deal as Penn and Teller. I’ve seen no indication that they have any contact with each other outside of KISS. Some of their albums were even made with Gene in one studio and Paul in another, and the drummer and guitarist would have to shuttle back and forth to do their parts.
I’ve heard quite a few interviews with Tom Arnold and heard people talking about Rosanne and it’s pretty clear that Rosanne was a complete an total nutjob. Not in the “crazy” way but in the must be properly medicated at all times or else she’s a threat to herself and other way. In the later years of the show she was essentially a paranoid schizophrenic and about the only person who could get Rosanne to do anything, read scripts and show up for filming, was Tom Arnold. She just about walked out on the show in spite of her contract many, many times and without Arnold she probably would have. Outsiders and people who weren’t paying attention to the details blamed Arnold since it appeared that her craziness and his arrival coincided but in reality he might have been the one slowing down the implosion and keeping everyone getting paychecks.
Take it with a grain of salt, since my info is all word of mouth from listening to too much talk radio, but that’s my impression of it. Arnold seems to have gotten a really bad rap. Maybe someone else can shed some light on things.
More a case of a paycheck’s a paycheck. When the couple split they both tried solo projects but neither was as successful as they had been as a pair. So they decided to reunite professionally.
Chenoweth was recently very congratulatory on Twitter when Menzel publicly announced her pregnancy. Menzel is not (to my knowledge) on Twitter, so it wasn’t a pro forma thing like “she’ll see if I don’t say something” so I don’t know about hating one another. I don’t think that they’re best friends or anything but Kristin’s comments didn’t seem like something one would say about someone they actively disliked.
He might also have written about his Star Trek experiences on his blog, but I haven’t read much of it: http://wilwheaton.net/
He’s kind of all over the place on the internet so there could be something other than my two links and the one from earlier in the thread that people are referring to.
