As a fellow actor... I find this demeaning attitude towards us one of the oldest cliches. Some people... writers, directors, producers... don't realize that actors are not beneath them. TV-production is a collaborative process. So is theatre. (Unless you are doing a mono-drama - acting, directing and writing it yourself). If you don't respect an actor's talent, you can't expect them to respect your writing talent. And vice-versa. I'm talking in general. I have no way of knowing if all of this about Lemay is the truth. Maybe it's not. Maybe it is.
But also reading in the previous page of the topic, how he "seemed intent on destroying" these two women's careers... I'm just dumbfounded. And want to look into this. Maybe starting with his book. Not that I will ever fully believe an autobiography. People skew the reality when they tell their version of history. But my curiosity is heightened and I have to start somewhere.
I adore Harding Lemay's work from the little I have seen (I haven't watched a Harding Lemay episode I didn't love). That's all I can say. @Mona Kane Croft put it perfectly -"Ya' take the good, ya' take the bad..." and that's what we have to do sometimes. There are no saints in this business or any business for that matter.