If you work with someone long enough, they're bound to get on your nerves. Some of the greatest creative partnerships out there -- from John Lennon and Paul McCartney to Harold Ramis and Bill Murray -- have had their fights. By virtue of the public nature of celebrity, these tiffs often become famous in their own right. Fans love to rubberneck and gossip, but we also love to pretend our favorite TV families are, well, as tight-knit as a family.

For this reason alone, headlines about real-life beef between the swaggering hero behind FX's modern Western "Justified" and the actor playing the show's iconic villain came as a surprise when they started circulating last year. Could it really be true that Walton Goggins, the intensely talented actor who embodied outlaw Boyd Crowder for six seasons of "Justified," was on the outs with Timothy Olyphant, who is not only the...