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Transcript of a Jerry Doyle chat session on CompuServe. Thanks to Sunil
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Karve and Nathan Wallace. Edited for clarity by Nathan Wallace and
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Steven Grimm. Jerry Doyle's answers were typed in by Eliot Stein, the
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chat moderator, who led off with some questions of his own.
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********** 7/20/95 8:50 PM Forum CO
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| Hello Jerry thanks for joining us!!!
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| JD: A pleasure!
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| What are you filming tonight?
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| JD: I'm doing a guest starring shot on
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| "Renegade" a CBS show.
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| THanks for taking this break during filming.
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| Tell us ...
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| You were a stockbroker just five years ago...
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| HOW did you go from Wall Street to Tinsel
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| Town Ave. in just five years?
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| JD: I quit Wall Street in 1990...
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| I was bored not happy...despite being
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| wealthy...I wanted to get into
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| something exciting...I was either going
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| to buy a boat and head for the
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| islands OR decided to give acting a try.
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| I got very lucky fast in Hollywood!
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| Jerry, what did you think about the role on
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| the show when you first saw the script?
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| JD: I thought Garibaldi was a screwed-up ,
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| confused, funny character...
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| and I liked the fact that he had so many
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| problems...there would be so many ways to
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| play the character!
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| How much of the character is your
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| interpretation and how much did the producers
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| tell you to do?
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| JD: As an actor, you rea the script and the
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| words are a map to where the story
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| is going...you use your own "Spin" on the
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| character...
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| as the series progresses,the ...the
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| writers get to know you better...you know
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| them better...you start
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| working together to develop he character!
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| How old are you Jerry?
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| JD: 39 years old.
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| what were your media influences? TV,
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| music..etc???
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| JD: My favorite movies were "Sound of Music,"
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| "Animal House,"...
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| "Dark Shadows," "I Dream of Jeannie," ...
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| music--Eric Clapton, Elton John, Doobie
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| Brothers.
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| Since you hit stardom relatively quickly...
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| is it all that people think it is...or just a
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| really fun job?
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| JD: The job is a blast!...
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| when you break down what an actor does on
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| a given day....
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| they feed you, make-you-up, tell you what
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| to say...
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| there's 175 people involved with the
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| show...and you only see 10 of us...
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| it's the crew members that are as
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| important as the actors!
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| They stay and work on the show after we
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| have gone home!
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| ALL jobs are importnat on the set!
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | JOE RUFFOLO GO AHEAD!!!!
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Joe Ruffolo | Jerry, You make the charecter look so easy.
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| When it it fall into place for you?
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | JD: I fooled you all!!!!...
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| I think he's an easy character to play
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| because he's so screwed up...
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| we all have our own faults...and if you
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| try and deal with them as you
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| go through lie day to day--with a sense
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| of humore...
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Joe Ruffolo | Ahhh, Thank You!!
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | JD: who knows? Maybe I was as screwed up as
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| the character and they needed me!
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | Cynthia Hardesty...
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- Visitor | will you be apperaring at any east coast
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| science fiction conventions this fall and
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| what do you think of conventions.
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | JD: Really East...England and Ireland...
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| conventions are GREAT!!!...
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| you get ideas, suggestions...it's great
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| to have such positive feedback...
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| from the audience at these conventions...
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- Visitor | What's the significance of ending the show
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| after five years. Why do that?
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | JD: I will keep doing them!
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | Sunil Karvel...are you ready with your
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| question? Please acknowledge!
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Sunil Karve | Hi Jerry. I want to know if you are as big a
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| fan of the Looney Tunes as
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| Garibaldi is. Any "Duck Dodgers" posters
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| hanging anywhere at home?
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | JD: NO to the DUck Dodgers....I don't care
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| that much about cartoons...
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| But I do like Tweety the BEST!!!!
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Sunil Karve | Thanks Jerry!
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | KEVIn FISHER...are you reay?
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kevin fisher | Jerry, how much of the plot arc does JMS let
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| the cast in on?
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | JD: As much as you want!!!...with certain
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| little twists and teases.
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| Sometimes I DON'T like knowing where we
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| are going!
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| Thanks!
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kevin fisher | Thanks and congrats on the best show on
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| TV!!!!!
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | Wendy Sarrett...are you ready?
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- Visitor | Thanks, Jerry now that youve left Wall street
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| do you still follow the market - if so bull
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| /bear
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| /bunny??
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | JD: I wasn't very good then...I'm not very
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| good now...
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| Don't take my advice...but I do play the
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| market quite often...I need the write-off!
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- Visitor | Thanks jerry - keep up the good work LOVE the
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| show!!!!
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | The topic is JERRY DOYLE star of Babylon 5 is
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| lIVE..
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| NEXT question....
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| JASON...are you ready? Please respond if so.
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JASON | Do you really like doing Science-Fiction, or
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| would you rather do drama or some other form of
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| acting?
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| How do like the cast of Babylon 5?
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | JD: BABYLON 5 is a drama that happens to be
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| in the science fiction genre...
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JASON | Thank you very much.
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | JD: so regardless of whether it is a western
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| or a courtroom drama...
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| what's important is the STORY!...
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| I don't view Babylon 5 as one type of
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| show. If somebody wants to pay me
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| $20 million I'll do any kind of acting!
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| We have a great cast...alot of fun...
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| the whole cast is upbeat...enthusiastic!
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| It's a great environment!
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | PAM HEATH...are you reay with a question?
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Pam Heath | O.K. What was your favorite scene to do on
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| B5, and why?
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | JD: Second season, first episode...I was in a
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| coma...said nothing...got full pay!
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Pam Heath | Thanks a lot, both for your time tonight and
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| your enjoyable characterization!.
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | JD: And the producers thought it was some of
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| my best work!!!!
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | Patti T. do you have a question???
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Patti T. | do you have any prior military service?
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | JD: NO...none at all!
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Patti T. | thanks, and my reguards to the whole crew!
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | JD: If you don't count military jesuit
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| all-boys high school...
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| which probably counts for why I am so
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| screwed up.
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| Bret Ladewig...a question?
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- Visitor | Can you tell us any of the story line for the
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| next season? And are there any funny antics
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| that occur between the cast on the set?
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Eliot Stein [WIZOP] | JD: Storylines---...
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| I think you can tell from the end of the
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| second season what is going to happen...
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| a big war is coming...a big mother
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| battle...
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| it's going to be great...
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| NON-STOP fooling around from the minute
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| you get there till the minute you
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| leave...we have a great deal of
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| fun doing the show...and we hope the
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| audience enjoys it as much!
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| JERRY has been called back for filming. He
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| thanks you all. PLEASE thank him for coming!
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