All I'll say is I had a totally different experience with Richard than what Titon recounts.
My work with Richard was in the context of audio books, a niche market and projects with no financial pressure, so working on something that was homegrown rather than part of the Hollywood machine.
We worked on an audio book of his BSG memoirs, You can see more details here:
http://www.colonialfleets.com/forums...ad.php?t=18327 and discussed another project (a story for another day).
I'm not doubting Titon's word, but the Hollywood context may change everything.