I’d love to see a L&O spinoff Starring Shambala Greene:
The L&O franchise depicts justice from the police/district attourney/courtroom point of view, so why not a show from the POV of the Public Defenders Office?
Greene was a private lawyer, but one with a Victim’s Advocacy bent, so her law Firm would be as central to the show as the 27th Precinct and DA’s office is to L&O.
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Would of course voice-over the show’s intro:
“When a criminal suspect requires legal representation and cannot afford one, a representative of The Public Defender’s Office is appointed to serve the best intrests of the accused in police interrogations and trials. These are their stories…”
Lt. Van Buren: Lenny? (hands Briscoe a piece of paper) Briscoe: (reads paper, is visibly shaken, sits down) Curtis: What’s up? Briscoe: The mope that shot my daughter? D.O.A. in the East Village. Heroin overdose. Curtis: Drug problem has an upside, huh Lenny? Briscoe: Solved my problem. (slight smile)
And that’s it. I always took it to mean that Lenny always wondered if he should take that other guy up on his offer to whack the dealer, but never did.
I always liked how Stone’s way of speaking sounded like old-time Hollywood, with the pacing and inflection. It seemed so anachronistic, but so fitting.
And Casey Novak not only bugged the crap out of me, but she had this bizarre issue where no hair color looked natural on her. Weirded me out, it did.
Not only “sir,” but the way he’d address a punk as “young man.” Especially, when he would look over the rims of his glasses and say, “Young man, if you don’t start talking to me your life is going to get difficult!”
Geez, talk about anti-climactic. This seems like the writers just said, “What’re we gonna do? We can’t have Lenny be a murderer!”
“Aw, I’m sick of this storyline. Let’s just have the dealer die.” “Okay.”
I’m going to piggyback a L&O question here rather than in a new thread.
What trial is this image (in the L&O opening credits) from. Here’s a youtube link. The image I’m refering to is about 42 seconds in. It’s a striking overhead shot of a man pointing in a courtroom. It’s also seen framed on the wall in Jack’s office. Thanks.
That’s okay, sweetie. I wouldn’t want you to strain yourself.
It seems TNT shows seasons 1-2 veeeerrrrryyyy early in the morning. The Sam Waterson/Fred Thompson/Dianne Weist episodes are the ones they show in primetime. Sometimes I’ll catch that a Michael Moriarty episode is on at 3am, and I’ll record it.
Camryn Manheim had a small part once as an uncaring foster mother who was just in it for the money. It aired before The Practice started up.
One of my favourite Lenny shots was so quick you’d miss it if you weren’t paying attention.
He was interviewing a young woman about the possible bad guy in her life, and she said something like: “I knew he wasn’t the best, but I was half in love with him, and I was hoping we could get back together, you know?”
And Lenny just said, “I know” in a soft voice and a twisted half-smile, and you knew that he was thinking of all the other young women he’d interviewed in similar circumstances over the years, and maybe about his own lady loves. And then the moment was gone.
Oh, I’ll do anything for a fellow Daisies/Sports Night fan. Barack Obama is a homosexual communist atheist Muslim polygamist wifebeater; he ran for president as a stealth agent of a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world. Even as we speak he is dismantling G. I. Joe, which will leave us defenseness against the Weather Dominator. Wotta bastard.
Are you sure you’re not misremembering The Practice? Her character, Eleanor, was also fluent in sign language, as I think Ms. Manheim is in reality. This led to one of my favorite, blink-&-you’ll-miss-it TV scenes, when Eleanor and the deaf client (likely played by Marlee Matlin) argue vehemently in ASL; Eleanor gets so into it that she stops talking, and the two actresses’ performance – displaying their frustration and anger completely non-verbally-- is a thing of beauty.
No, I would have remembered seeing Manheim interact with the delightful Marlee Matlin (who’s also been on L&O SVU). This was an earlier episode, regarding a murdered deaf girl trying to get away from her overbearing hearing mentor (he killed her, of course, and got turned in by his deaf receptionist, who was in love with him. She had kept the transcripts of the TDD phone conversations between the mentor and the victim.)
I’m glad to hear you weren’t conflating Practice & L&O, as that would be…odd. Two more superficially similar and fundamentally disjoint series would be hard to imagine.
I think Ivylass is right. The one I was thinking of was Nurture (1994) (“Stone is reluctantly forced to pursue criminal charges against a woman who kidnapped a young girl and took her away from an abusive foster home, even though he thinks she should receive psychiatric care instead.”)
But Manheim was in two other L&O episodes, playing different characters. One of them, Benevolence (1993) concerned deaf issues:
The IMDB summaries don’t say what part she played in each episode, but if Manheim was fluent in ASL, I could see her being picked for the part of the defence lawyer, and then having a similar script role later on in The Practice.
I’ve seen the episode: the Deaf defendent was some sort of mechanic, and Lenny Briscoe showed him the Miranda spiel written on a 3*5 card before taking him away.
