…and delivers them in the most heavy handed way possible?
So I’m sitting here playing poker online, and in the background, A&E seems to be running a CSI Miami marathon.
Every time I hear him speak, David Caruso is chewing up the scenery with his cornball delivery of his cornball lines. Oy yoy yoy! Is there anyone half as bad? Does he get bad reviews? I’ve never watched this show and I’m stunned by this crap.
I read the Title and immediately thought of the Evil and Smarmiest of them all. The mentioned David Caruso. Ask my wife my opinion of this grade A jerk. This bad actor from the school of Shatner without the appeal or humor. This horrible self-righteous prig. I strongly dislike him and I have since NYPD Blue. Strangely he was good in Rambo.
Jim
He was playing against Stallone. It’s tough to outham Stallone.
It might be the malevolence Caruso inspires, but once I started watching him (after getting busted from the poker game) it looked to me that he has great difficulty delivering his less-than-biblical lines. You know, what I mean: throwaways. He seems almost unable to get them out of his mouth. I wish I could recall one but I can’t.
And Caruso cannot project a modicum of empathy. In the show I watched completely this morning, a very nice, a very appealing woman has unwittingly drunk so much radioacactive iodine, she’ll die within a week, and when she asks how much she’s ingested, Mr. CSI says something to the effect: “…enough for 4 patients over a 6-month period,” with all the compassion of a Ted Bundy.
Watch him next time CSI’s on.
Caruso wins that prize, hands down. Oddly enough, he was pretty good in Proof of Life when he was a sidekick.
I also thought of the walking shitstorm that is David Caruso. Acting, to him, is looking away, while delivering your line, then, for the last word or two, looking back up. Ah, so predictable. He’s like Karl Malone in the paint, always with the right handed jump shot after bringing the ball from between his legs.
Yeah. I agree.
Add me to the list of people who thought of Caruso immediately upon seeing the thread title.
Me too.
I saw the thread title and opened it to post: David Caruso’s sunglasses.
Without them, I think he would fall down.
I agree with what has been said about David Caruso, but in the hammy-lines-delivered-heavy-handedly department, I’d also like to nominate Vincent D’Onofrio, of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” I have loved some of D’Onofrio’s performances in the past. He was just stunning in Full Metal Jacket. But in “L&O:CI” he is, in my opinion, dreadful.