Wednesday, September 1, 2004

lunchtime blogging

Happy birthday, Mom!



I was all set to enjoy some Yankees dissing today in light of their 22-0 pounding and apparent collapse, but the usual suspects were silent: Cooch is on vacation, and the greenfieldgerbil server is down, knocking Mark, Bogg, and The Bruce out of commission. On the other hand, all three of them surely know better than to gloat too much.



I'll run down my 2004-05 LaPlaca picks tonight or tomorrow. In honor of them, here's a list of random things. I enjoyed The Jury while it was on. Admittedly, what I enjoyed most about it was watching for Homicide and Oz cast appearances, and no doubt that novelty would wear off quickly. What I was really waiting for was Belzer to show up giving testimony as Munch.



Ten actors who appeared in The Jury as well as on Homicide: Life on the Street, with their HLOTS characters:

1. Andre Braugher (Det. Frank Pembleton, seasons 1-6)

2. Ami Brabson (Mary Pembleton, recurring)

3. Peter Gerety (Det. Peter Gharty, seasons 6-7)

4. Toni Lewis (Det. Terri Stivers, seasons 6-7)

5. Jon Polito (Det. Steve Crosetti, seasons 1-2)

6. Zjelko Ivanek (Assistant State's Attorney Ed Danvers)

7. Bruno Kirby (the bad guy in "The Gas Man," one of the worst episodes of the series. And it didn't even involve Jon Seda!)

8. Barry Levinson (played himself in the episode "The Documentary")

9. Jon Seda (Det. Paul Falsone, Seasons 6-7)

10. Joe Morton (reporter Sam Thorne in two season 3 episodes)





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Big news in Chicago is the William Kennedy Smith lawsuit. Interesting commentary about it and a Sun-Times columnist here and here. For the record, I think Steinberg was generally right, if crass, on 8/27, but horrifically offbase on 8/30. I'm just waiting for some conservative pundit to use the case and "kennedy privilege"/"two Americas"/whatever to besmirch Democrats in some manner. Whomever does so would be incredibly shortsighted: the person who successfully defended WKS in the '90s? Roy Black, who's now defending Rush Limbaugh against his hillbilly-heroin charges.

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