Thursday, February 28, 2013
2013 World Baseball Classic Begins This Friday On MLB Network
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posted on February 28, 2013 at 04:01 PM by Gamingboy to international, mlb network, tv, wbc, world baseball classic
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Read More...MLB Network’s exclusive English-language telecast of the 2013 World Baseball Classic in the United States begins this Friday, March 1 at 11:30 p.m. ET and continues with all 39 games of the tournament through the Championship on Tuesday, March 19 at 8:00 p.m. ET. MLB Network’s Bob Costas, Jim Kaat, Joe Magrane, Harold Reynolds, John Smoltz, Matt Vasgersian, Tom Verducci and Matt Yallof are among the group of announcers scheduled to call the tournament, produced by MLB Network in the United ...
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< 1 2 3 4 5 6Amen - I'd add Get Shorty to that list, too.
I love Farina to the extent that he's one of those sort of bit/supporting actors that will cause me to watch a movie I might skip otherwise.
Given that I think he was a Chicago cop, it was disappointing that he was so mediocre - but not awful - on L&O. I actually restarted watching L&O regularly when he was on it.
It was definitely over the top, but the hunting was really more the catalyst than the main event. He didn't want to speak up because he had left 3 or 4 other jobs where he knew he didn't fit in. He was a nerdy guy and he didn't want to stand out and start the slide to leaving this job and hoping he can find another good job. As a nerdy guy who has left a few places where I didn't advance like I wanted to, I can totally relate.
I don't know if the original script that was leaked is still around somewhere, but it was Zaillian that wrote the first manuscript and Sorkin that finalized it. It would be interesting to see how much Sorkin inserted himself into the original.
L&O at the time could have supported one mediocre actor, but the combo of Farina and Elisabeth Röhm at the same time were just too much awful going around. Describing Rohm's acting as 'wooden' wouldn't have done it justice.
she was pretty bad, and also her exit was a real 'wtf?' moment. at the end of her last season she gets fired by fred thompson (another read dud, but he wasn't as bad as dianne wiest) and she asks 'is it because i'm a lesbian?' ... i don't get why the writers thought it was necessary to do that.
No, they left the office. You, the viewer, never left the office.
yeah yeah yeah
actually Barney and Jack Soos' character never seemed to leave the office either
Oh, Jack Soo eventually left the office, all right.
Yeah, especially since it came out of left field. Rohm character always talked about going out with some guy, or on a date with somebody. Was she supposed to be in the closet the entire time? And Dianne West was a crappy actress for that role to boot. Hindsight being 20/20, they should have bumped Sam Westernson's character to the DA's office years ago and made Angie Harmon's character the star. She probably would have stuck around longer if they did that.
In an interview she said that she was asked if she wanted to character to go out with something shocking(or a bang I forget)or something simple and she of course took shocking, and so that's what Wolf picked as shocking.
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come to think of it, i have to laugh. because fred thompson's reaction on the show was the same as mine. 'hell, i didn't even know you were a lesbian', or something like that.
Yeah, that was really weird. It wasn't so much shocking as much as just 'um...ok....' Poochie had a better exit.
To be fair (regarding her casting), her successor may have been worse than she was.
To David N's point, was Rohm more "wooden" than any of the others? Besides Angie Harmon I don't think I can name any of the actresses who filled that role by name, and if you hadn't mentioned the "lesbian" thing I would have had no idea which one you were talking about because they all seemed pretty similar. Rohm at least played her part with emotion when given the opportunity to do so.
I'll take a stab
Derrick Brooks - Paul Robinette
Jill Hennessey - Clair Kincaid
Carey Lowell - Jamie Ross
Angie Harmon - Abby Carmichael
Elisabeth Rohm - Serina ?
Can't name her or her character, though I remember she exited the show stuffed in a trunk.
(something) De La Garza - Connie Rubirosa
I liked Hennessey a lot, but Harmon had the best written character of the assistants, by far.
And the "is it because I'm a lesbian" scene was easily the biggest WTF moment in the show's history, though I still wonder whatever happened to the close friend who swore to take Adam Schiff down storyline.
Not only that, but it's 22 interesting murders. Most murders fall into one of two categories, obvious or unsolved.
Neither Carey Lowell nor Jill Hennessey were remotely "wooden." de a Garza wasn't, exactly, but she suffered from coming in as the show was over the hill and they had run out of good scripts.
Derrick Brooks - Paul Robinette
Jill Hennessey - Clair Kincaid
Carey Lowell - Jamie Ross
Angie Harmon - Abby Carmichael
Elisabeth Rohm - Serina ?
Can't name her or her character, though I remember she exited the show stuffed in a trunk.
(something) De La Garza - Connie Rubirosa
Sadly, I can name all the actors - I've always enjed Law & Order (and have all the episodes on my gigantic media server). Sadly, I even know Profaci was played by John Fiore.
Neither Carey Lowell nor Jill Hennessey were remotely "wooden." de a Garza wasn't, exactly, but she suffered from coming in as the show was over the hill and they had run out of good scripts.
What really kinda sucked is that all the promos for L&O the last few years all had gigantic spoilers. If you watched anything on the network, you already knew exactly how the episode would be, sans the one twist they would do to make it different than the headline they were copying.
It is kind of funny when subsequent roles of some of the actors make some of the episodes unintentionally hilarious. Rob McElhenney and Adam Scott (Mac from It's Always Sunny and Ben Wyatt from Parks & Rec) don't quite work as killers anymore. Even Charlie Day's cameo as a witness in that episode where the kid was pushed off the building during a reality show is funny because that's ####### CHARLIE KELLY!!!!
Neither Carey Lowell nor Jill Hennessey were remotely "wooden." de a Garza wasn't, exactly, but she suffered from coming in as the show was over the hill and they had run out of good scripts.
I guess that's my point, I didn't think Rohm was particularly wooden either. Perhaps it hurts watching the show in syndication because you don't get the same continuity of characters, but as both actresses and characters, the assistant prosecutors are usually pretty interchangeable.
If you expand to the whole L&O universe, I've got to go with Michaela McManus as an ADA in SVU. She made Govich seem like Cagney & Lacey. She was so bad they fired her in mid-episode.
It is kind of funny when subsequent roles of some of the actors make some of the episodes unintentionally hilarious. Rob McElhenney and Adam Scott (Mac from It's Always Sunny and Ben Wyatt from Parks & Rec) don't quite work as killers anymore. Even Charlie Day's cameo as a witness in that episode where the kid was pushed off the building during a reality show is funny because that's ####### CHARLIE KELLY!!!!
Yeah, it was also really confusing when Dean Winters had a cameo as a dirty ex-cop in Criminal Intent after his season as a good cop on SVU.
Imagine my confusion when the NYPD tabbed a defense attorney to serve as a senior detective or a grieving mother to be the lieutenant of the 27th precinct.
Agreed. I actually thought the cast at the very end of the show's run was quite good. I really liked Jeremy Sisto as Lupo; he's easily my second-favorite character the show had, after Jerry Orbach's Lenny Briscoe. Anthony Anderson was actually good, too, and moving McCoy up to DA and letting Linus Roache's Cutter be the head ADA was a good move.
I might go as far as to say it was my favorite overall ensemble ever on L&O.
But yeah, the plots themselves were weak, so the show itself wasn't as good as it had been, say, ten years prior.
The guy from Blue's Clues was pretty convincing as a nerd who killed someone who had been bullying him.
Everyone there has some supernatural powers though, so they must have an exaggerated sense of their survival skills.
While Steve did make an appearance on L&O, he did his bully killing on Homicide.
I give a pass to shows that make some attempt to justify everything happening in one small town. Buffy lived on a "Hellmouth," which was a supernatural vortex that drew vampires and other supernatural creatures to Sunnydale. Smallville had that kryptonite meteor that caused mutations!
I've always wondered if Charlie's obssesion with Law and Order on the show is related to this. Kind of Rob and Charlie rubbing it in to Glenn that he didn't get on Law and Order. Though I suppose he was the star of "That 80s Show", which is a fine thing for an actor to hang his hat on.
I have zero experience with the law, so I have absolutely no idea how accurate a representation it is, but the Canadian legal show "This is Wonderland" tended towards the mundane rather than the grand drama.
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