[B5JMS] Salaries for acting

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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5l?= Are Nordal <a_blip at bigfoot.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 02:17:33 +0200
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James Bell wrote:
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> The best of your knowledge is only half the story apparently.  You simply
> choose to believe the worst about CC, accusing her of lying, while in
> reality both JMS and CC could have been and probably were telling the truth
> as they saw it.

I find her initial announcement that she was fired very hard to
reconcile with her subsequent admission that she quit. The former caused
a *lot* of grief not only for jms, but for the B5 fandom community as a
whole, and I hold her directly responsible.

And please read *all* of the following if you intend to discuss this further:

http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/misc/cc-leave.html

Bruce Boxleitner backs up jms:

http://groups.google.com/groups?rnum=1&selm=199708152303.QAA14648%40f41.hotmail.com

Jms' final say on the matter (and note the post a bit later in the
thread, backing him up):

http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=697fbc4376e9ec70,41

And the interview he was referring to:

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SCI FI INVASION : By you Quitting, Straczynski lost Ivanova, he couldn't
have been happy about that:


Claudia Christian: I think he feels that like I put them out or
something by quitting the show, when in fact essence I don't even think 
it affected anything.

He didn't even have a storyline for the fifth season at that point.

I didn't think there'd be enough for me to do and I didn't want to be
relegated to one more year of not having any challenges.
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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 22 Jul 2001 02:35:08 GMT
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>> The best of your knowledge is only half the story apparently.  You simply
>> choose to believe the worst about CC, accusing her of lying, while in
>> reality both JMS and CC could have been and probably were telling the truth
>> as they saw it.

I can't believe people are still debating about this...

Go down to the frikkin' bookstore and pick up a copy of the current TV Zone,
issue 41...there's an interview with Claudia.  In it she says it again, point
blank: she CHOSE to QUIT the SHOW.  Nothing about any kind of miscommunication,
she CHOSE to QUIT.

Previously she said it was about money, now she says it was because she didn't
want to keep doing a part where she didn't have much to do (odd since at the
end of the last episode with her Ivanova was put IN CHARGE of B5), the story
has changed here and there elsewhere, but either way, the end result is the
same, it was her decision.

I told the truth.  Deal with it.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
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