CHAPTER 3Close-up: Jigsaw
Shooting a picture presupposes close cooperation. Quade got it from the technical crew—photographers, sound mixers, set dressers and builders, color engineers—and he got it from most of the actors. The stars were another matter.
Kathleen Gregg, of course, was all right. But Stover always wanted to go off on a bender. Where he’d hidden the Venusian drink he habitually imbibed, Quade did not know, although he’d made a hasty search of the ship. Picasso wasn’t thriving on Mars, for some reason—insufficient oxygen, perhaps—and that made more friction with Ailyn Van. Half the time Clint Padrick and Edith Rudeen refused to work together. Quade tore his hair, swore, argued, pleaded, and eventually got about half of the picture shot. It took all of three weeks.
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