NYPD Blue

In 1994, after just one season on ABC's hit crime-drama "NYPD Blue," actor David Caruso left the show to pursue a career in feature films. After falling flat on his face as a leading man in films like "Jade" and "Kiss of Death, Caruso made a slow crawl back onto network primetime, establishing himself as a cautionary tale for any actors tempted to leave high-rated television shows for greener pastures. In 1999, after 5 seasons on NBC's critically acclaimed medical-drama "ER," George Clooney left the show to pursue a career in feature films. After giving award winning performances in films like the Coen Brother's "O Brother Where Art Though" ...
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Back in the day before every award season became seemingly bogged down with somber, serious holocaust dramas and the Oscar-baiting music industry biopic, the quickest way to the top of the prestige ladder circa mid-nineties was via the courtroom drama. There was no surer way to garner critical acclaim and mass audience swooning than a fist pounding "objection" on a mahogany legal bench. As Nicholson famously espoused, we "can't handle the truth," but as an audience, before syndicated cable TV beat the concept to death, we were suckers for it. Enter: Primal Fear.
High-class Chicago attorney Martin Vail (Richard Gere) believes in the letter and the spirit of the law. It doesn't matter to him if his defendant is a mob racketeer suing the state on a trumped up police brutality beef, it's all about the principle (and 40% of any settlement, of course). A Catholic Archbishop is brutally hacked to death in his mansion,
Neil Pedley

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David Frank knows more than you. Care to disagree? Some folks will say you shouldn't watch TV. It's bad for yah. Nothing but an idiot box. It'll soften your brain and whet Alec Baldwin's appetite. And don't sit too close. That goddamn thing will scorch the retinas right out of your skull like an uncased gamma-ray blaster. Oh, and it gives you cancer of the nipples. Momma never wanted you to watch the tube, unless she needed a babysitter. But it didn't matter. If you weren't lucky enough to grow up Amish or in a pretentious hippie commune, you probably watched plenty of TV, despite the warnings from Momma and book-loving researchers. During the college years, I sort of believed in that "TV equals The Evil" bullsh*t. My reasons were different, but no less stupid. I was a movie-man, I told people. Sure I watched the television set,
David Frank

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