Monday, July 12, 2010
RESIDUAL GOODWILL: That Melina Kanakaredes is leaving CSI: NY is honestly of little interest except to TV listings people who no longer have to type her name each week. However, tossed into the article is that they are attempting to sign Sela Ward as her replacement. Ward is one of those performers who, despite never getting a huge hit/breakout (though she has two Emmys--one for Sisters, and the other for Once and Again), I have immense goodwill for, and I might even watch an episode or two of CSI: NY because of her presence. Are there other performers for whom you have similar feelings? I know I watched more than a few episodes of Justice for Victor Garber, for instance.
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To me, Selah Ward brings nothing and takes nothing away, which isn't exactly a bad thing. She became Dana Delaney the moment that Dana Delaney stopped being Dana Delaney. She is the actress whose name is on the tip of every senior network executive's tongue on late friday afternoons as the exec is thinking about getting a weekend house on a golf course in Palm Springs.
ReplyDeleteMy Josh Charles love caused me to pay full price price to see SWAT in a first run theatre. There is nothing more shameful than willing seeing a Colin Farrel vehicle.
ReplyDeleteI would have agreed with you re Farrel until seeing In Bruges. Don't let his presence keep you from it, as it's quite good.
ReplyDeleteAs for Matt's question, I watched two episodes of the Philanthropist (I think that's what it was called) because Michael K. Williams (aka Omar) was in it. I would also watch Wendell Pierce on anything.
And it's not just despite him -- he's quite good in it.
ReplyDeleteI thought about watching Eastwick for Paul Gross. I didn't, but I thought about it.
ReplyDeleteI watched Death at a Funeral (v1.0) solely for Alan Tudyck, which ended up being a huge win.
ReplyDeleteSela Ward is someone who I think I really like, until I see her episodes on House, then I find her character, and her by proxy, infuriating.
I still love Sela Ward by virtue of her performance in Once And Again, a show I really enjoyed for its brief run.
ReplyDeleteHoly, commas, batman.
ReplyDeleteI liked SWAT. Then again, I like LL Cool J and Josh Charles.
ReplyDeleteI've watched every terrible Mark Feurstein vehicle - although I thought the movie where he played that Philly lawyer had a solid story. ;) Glad he finally has something good in Royal Pains.
ReplyDeleteI watched Ella Enchanted for James Marsden. Not a bad movie but not something I'd ever watch on my own.
I've watched two of the Rock's - I mean Dwayne Johnson's movies.
I'm starting to see a pattern here....
Victor Garber for me, too. I'm not sure what it says about me that there are more performers who would keep me away from something. I'm with LisaJunior re: Colin Farrell. I also cannot abide Cameron Diaz, the ONLY recent exception being In Her Shoes, which I watched because I loved the book and ended up really liking her in the role. I think that's more due to the fact that she had a great character to play, though, than due to any softening toward her on my part.
ReplyDeleteI loved Once and Again, so much... sniff. And I watched as much of Alias as I watched because of Victor Garber. "What is a spork?" had us laughing so hard we had to pause the TiVo.
ReplyDeleteLiterally the entire ensemble of Leverage.
ReplyDeleteI watched pretty the entire run of Dead Like Me, and many an episode of Criminal Minds, solely because of my deep and abiding affection for Mandy Patinkin. And count me in as another huge Once and Again fan. It's been five years, or something like it, since Season 2 came out on DVD, and the final season is still MIA. Arg.
ReplyDeleteHe was also good in his break out marine role in a little movie with the word Tiger in the title (I cannot remember more).
ReplyDeleteI liked that Mark Feurstein movie a lot!!
ReplyDeleteThere are many, many, many actors and actresses I will watch through any manner of terrible tv and movies. Although at least in tv a few episodes will pass and I will give up.
Actually I started watching Criminal Minds due to same abiding love and I have stayed on because of a new deep and abiding love for Matthew Gray Gubler. He is my tv husband after all.
ReplyDeleteIf you love Mandy Patinkin avoid "Paradise Found" at all costs if it ever makes it to Broadway. I saw it in London primarily due to his involvement (and also because Harold Prince, Susan Strohman and a friend from college). It was an unmitigated disaster - it's an operetta and he plays a bald eunuch.
ReplyDeletePretty much anyone from the Everwood cast, particularly Sarah Drew and Tom Amandes. And I'll second (or third or fourth) the admiration for Victor Garber, particularly after watching him perform Freedom on Eli Stone. So, so cool.
ReplyDeleteI will watch Rob Lowe in anything even those horrible send the kids to college movies he does.
ReplyDeleteI did. The show was godawful, but it was nice to see Paul Gross again. Especially nice to watch him ham it up as an evil cad.
ReplyDeleteAlan Tudyck rules. I'm on that train with you.
ReplyDeleteThe most humiliating example of watching an unworthy entertainment for a particular actor was the summer I spent watching the hideous BBC show HEX for Michael Fassbender. Holy crap that show is bad. It's like a really slutty version of CHARMED. Crossed with THE PROPHECY movies. And with hilariously misplaced delusions of BUFFY-dom. Dire.
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