# the practice - Darrin-ized?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 12, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-practice-darrin-ized/54110 "2001-02-12T04:37:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![PlanMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PlanMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanMan)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-practice-darrin-ized/54110/1 "2001-02-12T04:37:53Z")

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In tonight’s episode of “the practice” it seems the ‘crotchety old woman judge’ is being played by a new actor (actress). Unfortunately, I don’t remember the character’s name from before, was it Judge Fox? That was her name tonight. Haircut the same, but the voice and look - Darrin-ized!!

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-practice-darrin-ized/54110/2 "2001-02-12T17:35:00Z")

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Judge Zoey Hiller has been played by Linda Hunt in previous episodes; I missed the credits for who played Judge Fox last night. For whatever reason, the producers created another judge with a very similar appearance and demeanor. Perhaps Hunt was unavailable; though why they created a doppelganger, and gave her a different name is unclear to me.

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**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-practice-darrin-ized/54110/3 "2001-02-12T19:08:59Z")

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Last night, the judge was played by Susan Blommaert. According to imdb, she’s played a judge (presumably Judge Fox) on The Practice twice before.

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**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-practice-darrin-ized/54110/4 "2001-02-12T19:36:23Z")

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I figure David Kelley’s a **big** fan of Law & Order, to, since he keeps trolling there for actors. for example:

Becky (undeservedly in a coma presently) was a husband killing restraunt owner on L & O

Eugene - has had at least one or two stints on L & O, one was as a street thug

Eleenor Frutt has had at least 3 stints on L & O, one as an uncaring foster mother, one as a defense attorney who’s client was deaf, and one (when she was thin) as an anti abortionist bomber.

Jimmy had one role as a mentally challenged guy who was convinced into confessing a crime by a bad cop, was killed at Rickers just before he’d have been released.

Lindsay played a young girl living in a shelter who’d made allegations against a nun,

and finally, the judge from last night **also** played a judge on L &O - although her character on L & O was a heavy smoker with a hard hitting sarcastic style “you have a strange sense of humor Mr. so and so”., she’d often make rulings outside on her smoke break.