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From: shz@hlexa.UUCP (Sally Handy-Zarnstorff)
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Subject: Re: Tom Baker reclusive?
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Date: Fri, 13-Jul-84 23:39:00 EDT
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Now Robbie:
I didn't really say he was an egotistical jerk--although that was the
assessment of several convention-related people I talked to.  I thought 
he was egotistical, but definitely not a jerk.  He was very patient and 
charming even when mobbed by fame-crazed animal-like people.  His public 
personality is very Dr Who-ish, complete with all the wonderful facial 
expressions and great smile.  I got the impression that hardly anyone 
gets to see his private personality.

As for the 5 Doctors, he gave two different reasons why he didn't appear:
twice he said that he had been too possessive of the role, and didn't like
to see others playing it; and once he said he didn't want to appear
because he had just quit as the Doctor when they began shooting 5 Doctors,
and didn't want to play the part any more.

In a short interview for Philadelphia PBS station WHYY, he allowed
as how he didn't think too much of the Dr. Who scripts.  One wonders
how he survived his appearance on  Remington Steele, which has some
of the worst scripts I have ever seen.
(The  "non-zany adventures of Robin Hood" weren't too good, either...)


--Sally Handy-Zarnstorff
  AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ
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