From Mark Steyn's Aaron Spelling obituary in the September Atlantic (subscriber link):
“Get rid of the little guy,” advised an NBC exec after the Fantasy Island pilot. Eventually Spelling did, but only after Hervé Villechaize demanded as much per episode as Ricardo Montalbán and hung on his trailer door a sign saying THE DOCTOR OF SEX.
By the way, Mark Steyn has quickly become one of my favorite writers. I guess he's been around awhile, but I don't remember hearing his name until a few years ago. Funny, pithy, fact and anecdote-filled. Some of the best material today.
