Billy Crystal - Crystal Slammed By City Slickers Sequel Director

Funnyman BILLY CRYSTAL's nice-guy image has taken a hammering from his CITY SLICKERS subsequence director, wHO reveals the actor was challenging on the set.

British moviemaker Paul Weiland expected the film, City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold, to be packed with good times and laughs - just, instead, it was a terrible shoot.

And he blames his allergies and Crystal for ruination the experience.

Weiland says, "I'm always slimly anxious at first with movie stars because they can either make your life a dream or a living hell.

"Sometimes you get an actor wHO is majorly neurotic or powerful and controlling and it's ugly. Billy Crystal really wanted to be directing the movie.

"If you're hired as a director and somebody says, 'You're not really gonna be the conductor; you're on that point to hold Billy's hand and actually he's gonna direct it,' and then that's fine. But, to not be told that and then to go in, it's an full-scale war - and it's not pleasant."

And when he wasn't dealing with Crystal, Weiland was trying to cope with his allergies.

He adds, "I'm allergic to things like horses and cats. When I