Blogger A Fly On The Wall hears that it was a constantly bitching, second-guessing Kevin Costner (and not Jennifer Aniston) that got first-time director Ted Griffin axed from the Untitled Ted Griffin Project. It couldn't have been easy for the rookie to get anything done with Costner loudly deep-throating his Best Director Oscar every time Griffin tried to set up a shot:

"It's totally Costner's fault, not Jennifer's," the crewmember confided to The Fly. "He was constantly in Ted's face about what he was doing wrong, criticizing him repeatedly about his setups in front of Paula [Weinstein, one of the film's producers]. He said several times loudly to anyone who would listen, 'this movie'll take a year to shoot if you don't get rid of Ted.'...Finally, Ted asked Costner rather firmly, but not loudly, to return to his trailer. Costner screamed, 'I will not! Not until you change the lighting set-up like I told you!'"

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