"A true victory is to make your enemy see they were wrong to oppose you in the first place."

CURSE YOU ENDLESS MIIIIIIKE!

According to the writers, Marc Alaimo had an issue with this himself, as he always played Dukat as if he were the hero of the series. Which is definitely how Dukat sees himself, but it somehow got to the point where it was unbalancing scenes and they had to remind him that, you know, they'd like him to play a little…

Heck, Harry's too likeable in the world of the film itself. Martins gives him the benefit of the doubt until Calloway shoves his face in just how much death and pain Lime has caused. And Anna never turns against him, even after he's clearly abandoned her. Somehow his monstrousness never fully weighs on you, even…

I mean, I don't think he phrased it QUITE so bluntly, but it was plainly an Alex-Guinness-in-Star-Wars situation, a good-sized paycheck for some relatively untaxing work that you can use to fund the stuff you actually want to do. And good on him, quite frankly.

I read one retrospective of the show that indicated Joseph Marcell got pretty much exactly what he wanted out of the deal; a little bit of name recognition and some nice syndication checks to finance his theatre work (he was starring in King Lear at the time).

You don't know the half of it!

This is the kind of story that shows grit and determination when you're looking back on it after thirty years in the business, and makes you look like a damn desperate loser when it doesn't work out.

I was thinking the same, that if Smith did get her fired (and however merited that may or may not have been) and went on to be one of the biggest stars in the world for the two decades? It's not right or healthy, but I can easily see staying bitter that whole time.

One afternoon about nine years ago, I pick up the phone and Robert Prosky is on the line.

AHAHAHAHA FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FUCKS.

I remember that section of Devil in the White City where a group of his creditors assemble and go to Holmes en masse specifically to compel him to pay them . . . and he talked all of them into giving him more time, and to leave without any payment at all.

. . . are you trying to seduce me?

I'm ablaze with envy.

"I know what you're thinking, but I can't fire them. I hired these guys for three days a week and they just started showing up every day; that was four years ago."

That was what surprised me, that there wasn't even a token attempt at downplaying it or defending himself. He didn't say it with glee or anything, just a dry acknowledgement that, yeah, I had the money and the fame to get out of it, so I did.

. . . Lemmy.

“Rockstars don't go to jail. Christ, Vince Neil only did thirty days, and he killed somebody.”

I watched their Behind the Music episode years and years back and was struck by how candid Neil was about the whole thing, outright saying that he bought his way out of jail (I think he paid a little over two million dollars in fines) and calling himself "the O.J. of the early Eighties."

Put on a ten gallon hat and did my impression of a cowboy.