Tonight's episode of NBC's "Law & Order" (10 p.m., Channel 4) opens with the following obligatory disclaimer: "The following story is fictional and does not depict any actual person or event."
Posted on 11/03/2006 10:06:28 PM PST by goldstategop
Drunken celebrity accuses detective of being a "Jew Cop." That sounds familiar alright - only on Law & Order. Ripped from the headlines!
It then proceeds to relate the tale of a celebrity, pulled over for drunk driving, who calls a female police officer "sugar tits."
We suggest the following disclaimer for future "Law & Order" episodes:
"Look, we've been on the air for 17 years, plus we have a couple of spinoffs still on the air snatching salacious story lines from our grasp. Most shows run out of ideas after four or five years. Cut us some slack, will ya?"
In tonight's show, Chevy Chase gives his funniest performance in about two decades as Mitch Carroll, a washed-up entertainer (big stretch there). Through a clenched jaw that apparently serves as character development, Chevy's Mitch spews such invective as "Are you a Jew? You're a Jew, right? I should've known they'd stick me in a room with a Jew cop!"
Fake but accurate. Oh yeah and poster in the kid's bedroom was a rip-off of the neo-nazi "Prussian Blue" band.
Something on the tube earlier about Gibson winning some major directors award for "Apocalypto"
He'll always be Clark W. Grizwald to me.
I was riveted by the final scene. The father tried to save his own skin by disavowing all parental responsibility and willing to make his son, who did commit the murder, bear the price even though he incited and organized it. I was utterly disgusted. Nothing excused what the boy did but a parent should willing to put their love for the child ahead of their own welfare. So much for blood being thicker than water. If my child, heaven forbid, murdered someone, I would still love him and do everything I could to be there for him even as I recognize he is responsible for his own actions. And if a parent does evil, he too is responsible for his actions before God and his own family. We do have an obligation to honor our parents but we are not obligated to respect them if they teach us something we know to be wrong and command to do it. Our duty to God supercedes all ties of flesh and blood.
Chevy Chase? Is he still alive?
Yes. Why? You thought you read his obituary? The news of his passing has been greatly exaggerated.
No, I was just hoping...
Mel should call the producers and say "I'm Mel Gibson, and your not."
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