A feud is a feud is a feud in any place but Hollywood, where it's more apt to be just a rash of gossip! This was so with George Maharis and Marty Milner, who recently co-starred in the CBS-TV show, Route 66. It's true that when they first paired they had professional differences; Marty had been the master of "underplaying"--his style of acting was low key, subdued. So was George's, but Marty felt, for the sake of the script, that there should be a contrast between them and that if anybody came on strong it should be Maharis and not himself. Maharis didn't see it that way and came the day they theoretically slugged it out on the set! This wasn't true, of course. The real story about Maharis? Route 66 show creator Stirling Silliphant stated: "I think Maharis is impatient to get on with his own career. He has had no regard for this company, his co-star, Marty Milner, and the 50 or 60 other people on the show." George had been on and off the show, reportedly because of his grievances with Milner. In truth, he had been plagued twice by infectious hepatitis and required long recuperations before he could report back to work. Glenn Corbett (whose own show, It's A Man's World, folded), has replaced Maharis as Milner's co-star. No one seems heartbroken over the change, least of all George, who maintains: "I have to protect my future. If I keep going at the present pace, I'm a fool. Even if you have $4,000,000 in the bank, you can't buy another liver." So the feud that was a feud that was a feud wasn't a feud at all!