Terrence Howard certainly hasn't been quiet about his removal from the Marvel-verse and "Iron Man" series after the first hit film. Earlier this year he took a swipe at the comic studio for their dealmaking, in which actors sign for multiple pictures, but Marvel has the ultimate say on whether or not they'll use them again. "...I didn't know it wasn't a mutually binding contract; it was only beneficial for them and they could bring me back or not. They can honor it or not,” he said about why he was replaced by Don Cheadle in "Iron Man 2," where he was supposed to earn $8 million, an increase from the $4.5 million he took home for the first movie. But now he also points a finger at Robert Downey Jr., who he says suggested him for the superhero job in the first place. 
 
 Terrence Howard certainly hasn't been quiet about his removal from the Marvel-verse and "Iron Man" series after the first hit film. Earlier this year he took a swipe at the comic studio for their dealmaking, in which actors sign for multiple pictures, but Marvel has the ultimate say on whether or not they'll use them again. "...I didn't know it wasn't a mutually binding contract; it was only beneficial for them and they could bring me back or not. They can honor it or not,” he said about why he was replaced by Don Cheadle in "Iron Man 2," where he was supposed to earn $8 million, an increase from the $4.5 million he took home for the first movie. But now he also points a finger at Robert Downey Jr., who he says suggested him for the superhero job in the first place. 
 
 "It turns out that the person that I helped become Iron Man, when it was time to re-up for the second one, took the money that was supposed to go to me and pushed me out," Howard said on Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live." 
 
 
 
 "We did a three-picture deal. That means you did the deal ahead of time—a certain amount for the first one, a certain amount for the second, a certain amount for the third. They came to me with the second and said 'look, we will pay you one-eighth of what we contractually had for you, because we think the second one will be successful with or without you.' And I called my friend, that I helped get the first job, and he didn't call me back for three months," Howard added. Ouch. 
 
 In case you're wondering, Howard taking credit for RDJ getting the "Iron Man" gig is nothing new. In 2010, not long after "Iron Man 2" opened, a much more seemingly forgiving Howard had this to say to E!: ""For me to have recommended him, it means all the more so that I helped someone get to where they are supposed to go. Marvel and I are now talking about doing some other things. And Don Cheadle wanted to play that part before I wanted to play it, so everything is very well." 
 
 Well, clearly those Marvel plans aren't happening—Howard has since claimed they tried to kill his career—and the actor is leaving the ultimate judgement on RDJ to the man above. "Oh, I love him. God's going to bless him," he said. [Vulture] ||||| Mariska Hargitay's 'Law & Order: SVU' hair scare 
 
 Emmy winner reveals how infamous short haircut almost got her fired 
 
 Detective Benson's life is on the line when "Law and Order: SVU" returns Wednesday, Sept. 25. It turns out this isn't the first time Mariska Hargitay's (Benson) run on the hit series has been threatened. The Emmy winner revealed she almost got the boot after a seriously short hair disaster. 
 
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 "That short hair, I don't regret; I liked it, but I almost got fired about it," Hargitay revealed in a recent interview. "I don't think Dick Wolf was a fan of the super short hair." 
 
 
 
 
 
 Hargitay's hair nightmare began sometime during "SVU" Season 3, after she asked a stylist from a photo shoot to give her a trim. The stylist came to Hargitay's home, and she was very impressed with his work -- at first. Then she offered him a glass of wine, and he accepted. Big mistake. Hargitay received quite a shock when she looked up from the book she was reading and saw what he'd done. 
 
 
 
 "You know that moment," Hargitay recounted. "I look up and [my breath caught]. My hair was so cute and then all of a sudden, he did the one irrevocable cut. I went, 'Oh! Oh!' and he said, "What? Honey, you're gorgeous." He kept going. He cuts it and then he leaves. 
 
 "I'm calling the producer at 10:30, [crying], 'I just got a haircut. I don't think it looks good!" I went over to the producer's house and he was like, 'Yeah, that's a problem.' When they saw dailies [at work], they weren't happy. "What were you doing?' [crying] 'He was drunk! Do you think I'd cut my hair like this?' It was so funny… not really." 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Just as Hargitay and "Law and Order: SVU" survived her bad haircut, Benson will somehow survive being kidnapped by a serial rapist-murderer (Pablo Schreiber) in Wednesday's two-hour premiere. 
 
 
 
 
 
 The "SVU" season 14 cliffhanger left Benson in the hands of a psycho who has gotten away with murder, multiple time. The SVU squad will take drastic measures to find Benson and since Hargitay signed a new deal with the show after the May finale, fans can expect our heroes to prevail - but at what cost? 
 
 
 
 
 
 "It was a very painful episode to shoot, without a doubt" Mariska revealed. "It's been exciting, because after 14 years, you think, 'Where can you go? What else is there to do?' And this year, the arc that the writers have planned for me is so exciting, on a personal and professional and creative level." 
 
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 "I give the guy a glass of wine; he's trimming my hair, everything's great," Hargitay tells WENN . "And then all of a sudden, I turn my head and he cuts the wrong piece off. And I was like, 'No!' I'm like, 'Dude, I'm in the middle of an episode.'" 
 
 
 
 
 
 Hargitay says the perpetrator was a top French stylist hired to trim her up for a photo shoot. 
 
 
 
 
 
 "I got in so much trouble," she says. "I called ["SVU" creator] Dick Wolf and he was like, 'I've fired people for less.' I said, 'You can't be mad at me; I'm the one with the dramatic hair do.'" 
 
 
 
 
 
 After playing Detective Olivia Benson since 1999 on NBC's long running procedural drama, the actress received a Walk of Fame star right next to that of her mother, Jayne Mansfield. Hargitay tells Jay Leno , "It was a deeply profound, meaningful day and a huge marker in my life ... I felt so connected to her." ||||| A Brief History of Actors Kicked Off Their Television Shows 
 
 Conventional wisdom would tell us that even though Charlie Sheen has been given his walking papers, Two and a Half Men is too lucrative of a commodity for CBS to not at least try to continue. But can it survive after a star of the show has been fired? Television shows in the past have continued on to a varying degree of success after a major cast member has been fired from the show -- though if this list is any indication, the sooner it happens in the series' run, the better. With that, let's take a look at a brief history of television shows that have fired or forced out a major cast member. 
 
 Mackenzie Phillips, One Day at a Time 
 
 Probably the closest parallel to the Sheen situation, at least when thought of in terms of drug abuse. Phillips -- who played oldest daughter Julie on the popular Indianapolis-based sitcom -- developed a severe cocaine addiction, becoming such a terrible situation that she would often be late for work and couldn't be shot for close-ups because of her frail appearance. During the fifth season, Phillips was told that if she didn't quit, she'd be fired. Phillips, with little option, quit One Day at a Time. Two seasons later, Phillips was allowed back as a frequent guest star -- at least until she collapsed on set during the ninth season and was fired for the second and last time. 
 
 Cindy Williams, Laverne & Shirley 
 
 Williams played the title character of Shirley Feeney during most of the run of Laverne & Shirley. What some may not realize is that for most of the eighth and final season, there was no Shirley. Cindy Williams had become pregnant, and (allegedly) the show's producers were not exactly happy about the ramifications of this development on the show. Williams' pregnancy was written into the series, but Williams received less and less airtime until, one day, Williams angrily left the set for the final time during the middle of filming. As such, there was never a proper sendoff filmed for the title character (much like our current situation with Two and a half Men). A lawsuit filed by Williams was settled out of court. Without Williams, Laverne & Shirley ended its run at the end of that season. This scene below is a prime example of a Shirley-less episode of Laverne & Shirley. 
 
 Suzanne Somers, Three's Company 
 
 During the fifth season of Three's Company, Suzanne Somers (on the advice from her husband-manager, Alan Hamel) demanded a 500 percent salary increase plus a percentage of the show's profits in exchange for her continuing to play the role of Chrissy Snow. A power play that alienated her from fellow cast members John Ritter and Joyce Dewitt. When the demands weren't met, Somers often became absent from work. Eventually the producers had enough of her shenanigans and relegated Somers' appearances to an end-of-the-show phone call (in the plot, Chrissy was in Fresno taking care of her mother) from other cast members -- filming her scenes separately from the rest of the cast. Eventually, Somers was open to backing down from her demands, but the damage had been done -- her contract was terminated after the series suffered little ill effects from her absence. Three's Company would continue for three more seasons, followed by an additional season as Three's a Crowd. 
 
 Isaiah Washington, Grey's Anatomy 
 
 Washington played Dr. Preston Burke for the first three seasons of ABC's popular doctor drama, Grey's Anatomy. In a late 2006 on-set squabble, Washington used a gay slur to describe then fellow co-star T.R. Knight. Knight, a now openly gay actor, wasn't publicly open about that at the time. Because of Washington's indiscretion and the ensuing media controversy, Burke was written out of the show; four years later, Grey's Anatomy remains one of the most popular shows on ABC. Below is the final scene of Washington's last episode, in which Christina (Sandra Oh) discovers his newly abandoned apartment after a called-off wedding. Washington has admitted he wasn't happy about leaving the show and that if ever asked to return, even for a cameo, that he would. Though, he admits, "I don't really see that happening." 
 
 Damon Wayans, Saturday Night Live 
 
 Over the history of Saturday Night Live, many, many cast members have been fired. That's just how the show works. But no one has been fired in such glorious fashion as Damon Wayans, who was a featured player during the ill-fated 1985-1986 season and was upset about being regulated to supporting roles and not being to show off his flair, if you will. That changed in a sketch called "Mr. Monopoly" in which Wayans played a police officer. Somewhere between dress rehearsal and the live show, Wayans decided that this character needed to be played as a very flamboyant gay man. Lorne Michaels was not amused. According to the writer of that sketch, Andy Breckman, in Tom Shales' Live From New York, Lorne turned to Breckman at that very moment offstage and said, "That's it. I've got to fire him." Wayans would return as host in 1995. 
 
 Lisa Bonet, A Different World 
 
 After three seasons on the most popular show on television, The Cosby Show, Lisa Bonet's Denise Huxtable was spun off into a new series that aired directly after Cosby, A Different World. After the first season, Bonet, with then husband Lenny Kravitz, became pregnant. The producers of A Different World did not feel that having a pregnant Denise was "wholesome" enough for their viewers, so instead she was jettisoned from the show. Denise returned to The Cosby Show before traveling to Africa when Bonet's pregnancy started to show, returning after Zoe Kravitz was born. A Different World would last five more seasons with Jasmine Guy and Kadeem Hardison taking over as the lead characters. 
 
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– Selena Gomez gave her own parents the boot as employees yesterday, and is looking for new management. But that's far from the oddest firing Hollywood has ever seen: Tom Cruise went the opposite way, firing his publicist in favor of a family member—in his case, he gave his Scientologist sister the job. But just eight months later, his sister resigned and he hired a new publicist. Sometimes it's the family members who get the stars fired: The New York Times reports that after Thora Birch's father (a former "adult star" who became his daughter's manager) threatened one of her co-stars during a rehearsal, Birch was fired from an Off Broadway production of Dracula. Charlie Sheen fired his Anger Management co-star Selma Blair—via text message—after she complained about how difficult he was to work with. Lionsgate quickly followed suit and made the termination official. (And, of course, that was after Sheen himself got the boot from Two and a Half Men.) When Mariska Hargitay got a bad haircut, she was upset. She was even more upset when it almost got her fired from Law & Order: SVU, MSN reports. Series creator Dick Wolf told her, "I've fired people for less," she once told WENN. "I went over to the producer's house and he was like, 'Yeah, that's a problem.' When they saw dailies [at work], they weren't happy." Marty McFly was almost played by Eric Stoltz, Wired reports. But Stoltz was fired from Back to the Future after just five weeks of filming because "his comedy sensibilities were very different," according to director Robert Zemeckis. The role, of course, went to Michael J. Fox. Damon Wayans was fired after just one season on Saturday Night Live, when he decided—on his own—to play his police officer character in one sketch as flamboyantly gay, Movieline reports. Megan Fox learned the hard way that comparing your director to Adolf Hitler is not a good idea: Doing so got her fired from the Transformers franchise. Alec Baldwin claims he got Shia LaBeouf fired from a Broadway play. Terrence Howard claims Robert Downey Jr. got him fired from Iron Man, even though Howard says he's the one who got RDJ his role as Tony Stark, Indiewire reports. Howard was replaced by Don Cheadle. Gilbert Gottfried was fired as the voice of the Aflac duck after tweeting many ill-advised jokes about the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Want more? Check out 5 other celebrities who fired their parents, or 4 celebrities who got fired—and ended up being glad of it.