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'Monk' star Shalhoub calls finale very satisfying
KOMONews.com ^ | 12/04/09 | LYNN ELBER

Posted on 12/04/2009 12:50:33 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The final episode of "Monk" has some heavy lifting to do: Resolve Monk's poisoning and whether he survives, uncover his wife's killer or, just maybe, reveal whether Trudy really is alive after all.

Tony Shalhoub, who inhabited the title character so perfectly for eight seasons that he collected three Emmy Awards, refuses to drop any spoilers and offers only a broad outline of Adrian Monk's fate Friday (9 p.m. EST, USA Network).


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Nobody remembers Shaloub as Antonio from “Wings”? One of the best characters in the history of TV sitcoms.


41 posted on 12/04/2009 2:07:31 PM PST by CaptRon
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To: CaptRon

He also played the pawnshop-owning alien in “Men in Black” I and II.


42 posted on 12/04/2009 2:09:03 PM PST by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: RnMomof7

I haven’t followed Monk much for a few years but will try to remember tonight as I would like to see how it wraps. I love the theme. I have the first season or two on DVD. One of my favorite episodes was the one with Fraidy Cop.


43 posted on 12/04/2009 2:11:26 PM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: BlueLancer

I always thought that those were bit parts for him. He did them well, but he did much better on the small screen.


44 posted on 12/04/2009 2:12:39 PM PST by CaptRon
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To: CaptRon
He was hilarious in that role. He played a great sad-sack.

-PJ

45 posted on 12/04/2009 2:20:00 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: CaptRon

I remember Shaloub as Antonion in Wings. In vact, it still runs 2-3 days a week at 5:30 AM Central. It’s the only time I switch away from Fox & Friends — just to catch Wings.


46 posted on 12/04/2009 2:21:12 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Political Junkie Too

He was the best character on the show. There was one other who had a short lived character; Valerie Mahaffey who played Sandy Cooper. She wanted to marry the Tim Daley character. She was hilarious.


47 posted on 12/04/2009 2:32:36 PM PST by CaptRon
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

sad that the show is ending... love the cast, love that Sharona and Randy “hooked up,” and i love the theme song, “It’s a Jungle Out There,” by Randy Newman... “i could be wrong now—but i don’t think so... cause there’s a jungle out there...”


48 posted on 12/04/2009 2:32:53 PM PST by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
"Here's what happened..."


49 posted on 12/04/2009 2:34:24 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: massgopguy

My favorite movie role for him was in Galaxy Quest with Tim Allen. Tony was great in that one.


50 posted on 12/04/2009 2:36:25 PM PST by calex59
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To: CaptRon
I think I remember that. She then played a recurring character on Northern Exposure, the wacky wife of the wacky spy played by Adam Arkin.

-PJ

51 posted on 12/04/2009 2:52:34 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Yes she did.


52 posted on 12/04/2009 3:08:59 PM PST by CaptRon
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

More pictures, we need more pictures....


53 posted on 12/04/2009 3:21:10 PM PST by super7man
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To: massgopguy

I loved him in Barton Fink.


54 posted on 12/04/2009 3:22:45 PM PST by rabidralph (http://www.thealaskafundtrust.com/ http://www.sarahpac.com)
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To: DogBarkTree
Tom Selleck makes me feel a little better at least.
55 posted on 12/04/2009 3:23:47 PM PST by GunningForTheBuddha ("No solider wants to take a bullet in the name of nuance.")
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To: super7man
More pictures, we need more pictures....


56 posted on 12/04/2009 3:28:37 PM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: ozzymandus
The guy who played Stottlemeyer also played a cartoonish bad guy on “Crime Story”. He was very funny.

Was he also on one of the later Sellers Pink Panther movies? I saw someone recently in an old film that looked like him. Not only that, he had that same sort of upward looking to the side sigh.
57 posted on 12/04/2009 3:31:09 PM PST by aruanan
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To: paulycy

NOOOOO!!

“He’s really THAT fat!!”-Sharona


58 posted on 12/04/2009 3:38:36 PM PST by Politicalmom (Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. -- James Madison)
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To: ozzymandus
The guy who played Stottlemeyer also played a cartoonish bad guy on “Crime Story”. He was very funny.

He was also the creepy transvestite transsexual serial killer in Silence of the Lambs ....'it rubs the lotion on its skin'

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59 posted on 12/04/2009 3:54:32 PM PST by Elle Bee
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To: ozzymandus
Captain !!!!!

Ted Levine's more enigmatic wannabe transsexual, longing for a transgressive suit of female flesh. Similarly transgressive is director Jonathan Demme's complicated gaze, asking us - particularly in an incredible sequence scored to Q Lazzarus' "Goodbye Horses" - to see the beauty of this particular beast.

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60 posted on 12/04/2009 4:09:47 PM PST by Elle Bee
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