Amanda, that documentary sounds fascinating. Thanks.
I was (and still am) a fan of a 1990s series called Poltergeist: the Legacy. It had very little to do with the Poltergeist films; it was one of those psychic investigation team series. Anyhow, there was this one writer whose email got out to the fan community. He wrote the best scripts for the series, with layered characterizations, intriguing nuances, witty dialogue, etc. I wrote to him a few times over the years and he was always gracious enough to respond.
I'll never forget our exchange about the last script he wrote for the series. I wrote to congratulate him (they had pretty much stopped using him at that point) and he told me that in the final filming script, there were only two words, or maybe it was two sentences, left from his original script! But he got paid and got the onscreen byline anyway! As dear Grayson used to say, Who can figure anything, especially in "Hollywood" (technically Poltergeist was produced in Vancouver).
G.