Mandy Patinkin and Thomas Gibson were both in Chicago Hope and Criminal Minds. Also, in addition to Johnny Galecki and Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf shows up several times a season on The Big Bang Theory.
Given the number of people who hold SAG cards, the same actors do end up working together pretty frequently.
Did anyone else see the handful of episodes of The Good Wife that Matthew Perry did? I was impressed with his dramatic work.
I didn’t watch The Odd Couple, but I think I’ll catch it on On Demand, because this thread makes me want to see just how bad it is.
This. Neil Simon on the whole doesn’t age well. The Good Doctor holds up, because it was set in late 19th c. Russia, but a lot of Simon’s plays are mired in the time they were written. I think it would be really hard to make The Prisoner of Second Avenue work now.
Except for *The Out-of-Towners *I’d never heard of any of these, they must have been terrible! But I think the last one, Barefoot in the Park, was just a revival of the play videotaped for HBO (remember seeing it and it not being bad). Unless it’s a different, movie-version you meant to link…
Hey, I liked that show too. Though, I’d completely forgotten about it; didn’t really notice when it stopped being recorded. I guess that says something.
When I saw the commercial I thought this, but it just seemed too mean to say out loud.
If you had to choose someone from Friends, Matt LeBlanc. (…although that might be type-casting)
The part calls for someone in their early 40s, 15-25 lbs over weight but who could (and does) play basketball on weekends, and whose presence screams NYC. I wonder if Kevin James or Michael Chiklis read for the part?
Perfect Candidate for the roll of Oscar?
(He’d have to Totally Dump all his stand-up “schtick” to pull it off; Really try to channel Matthau & Klugman. He’d have to kick his own ass into being an Actor & not worry about how he’ll drag 3/4 of his entire neighborhood to a Destination Vacation
disguised as a film for a tax write-off: