[B5JMS] Err... (gulps) Ahh... JMS, I hope I didn't open a "can of worms"

[b5jms at cs.columbia.edu]

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From: "Mac Breck" <macthevorlon at yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 03:39:37 +0000 (UTC)
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"Jms at B5" <jmsatb5 at aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040921032940.25434.00000994 at mb-m04.aol.com...
> >So anyways, just for giggles I thought "Well I wonder
what Jerry Doyle
> >thinks about the new project?" so I sent an (ONLY ONE!!!)
E-mail.
> >Thinking Jerry's a busy guy might not even see mine.
Which, hey I'm
> >fine with, and understand, 9 out of 10 E-mails I get I
don't even
> >read, DELETED.
> >
> >So you can imagine my shock when I got an E-mail back in
a few days!
> >
> >Now keep in mind I have the mind set of a Babylon 5 hard
core geek. So
> >when I wrote the E-mail, I was thinking "Oh, gee, I'll
bet the cast is
> >as up to date on Babylon 5: The Memory of Shadows as all
of us "here"
> >are. What better way to sneak (here's where you can slap
me up side
> >the head) some info on the new project!"
> >
> >So it's with that in mind that the following E-mail
"happened".
> >
> >_________________________________________
> >arkofthekundert at juno.com wrote:
> >
> >"So, has JMS let you see the script for "Babylon 5: The
Memory of
> >Shadows"?
> >I gather if so that you can't talk at length about it,
but what are
> >your thoughts regaurding the over all writing of it?
Good, bad?
> >
> >Arlen Kundert"
> >
>
> Allow me to explain the multitude of things you did wrong
here.
>
> There's fannish (I use that term in a neutral fashion
here, only to distinguish
> between a fan of what's done, and those charged with the
doing of it) fannish
> interest in something, and the day to day reality of
people who make a living
> in this area.
>
> You went to someone you did not know, asking a question
you knew in your heart
> you probably couldn't get an answer to in any event, about
a confidential
> matter which that person may or may not yet have been
informed
> himself...

> meaning if he wasn't, he'd feel out of the loop,

Yes, that would be a problem, especially considering some of
the things that went back and forth in interviews awhile
back.



> and if he was, he'd
> have to lie or be disingenuous.

...or say, he couldn't comment.



> You did not "open a can of worms."
>
> You stuck your nose where it did not belong.

And that would be *between* you and the actor, who are both
*in* the business.  If it had been asked at a con, where
both you and Jerry had been sitting next to each other at
the same table, *that* would have been OK, correct?


>  Slight difference.
>
> Never.  Do it.  Again.
>
>  jms
>
> (jmsatb5 at aol.com)
> (all message content (c) 2004 by synthetic worlds, ltd.,
> permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine
> and don't send me story ideas)



-- 
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IMO correct, private email, now and then, when it's
something that can't be said in a public forum.)
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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 02:42:47 +0000 (UTC)
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>And that would be *between* you and the actor, who are both
>*in* the business.  If it had been asked at a con, where
>both you and Jerry had been sitting next to each other at
>the same table, *that* would have been OK, correct?

Absolutely.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2004 by synthetic worlds, ltd., 
permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine 
and don't send me story ideas)