my very favorite thing about law and order is how they recycle actors so wantonly. like right now, there's one on about a militia, and the main militia guy also played another main character that i remember--and looking at his imdb entry, i see that he's been on two other episodes as well. i guess they figured that when it was only showing once a week, no one would notice, but it is SO obvious when it's on five times a day, every day (not that i watch it all of those times). like once i saw an early episode where the woman who plays lt. van buren was playing the mother of the murder victim. that's sassy, right there, to take a bit player and make her one of the show's stars as an entirely different character!
my other favorite thing about law and order is when you see people in the early seasons who later became famous--i figured out pretty quickly who was guilty in the episodes featuring laura linney and claire danes.
so here's to you, law and order, for giving actors so much dang work, and giving me a reason to play on the internet to figure out just how into recycling you are.
my favorite example of this is steve burns, who got his start playing an autistic of law and order who suffers a seizure and dies or kills someone. anyway, i can't remember. point is, steve burns went on to star in "blue's clues." as an aside, now he's cut an album of mellifluous indie rock which is produced by steve drozd of flaming lips and ain't half bad. what a renaissance man!
ReplyDeleteheh, steve burns. i remember when that cd came out--it was hard to get past the peppy attitude and striped shirt of his blue's clues period.
ReplyDeletec'mon, the smash hit "might little man?" it works!
ReplyDeleteoops, i mean "mighty." tired.
ReplyDeleteThe girl who played the casey novak ADA on Law and Order SVU also played a female rapist in one episode... totally threw me off.
ReplyDeletewow, a female rapist? i haven't seen one of those since picket fences was on tv.
ReplyDeletesam rockwell and kelly bishop are starring in the one on now--they both look so young! early law and order is crazy.