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To: Impy; big'ol_freeper; SevenofNine; Cletus.D.Yokel; Rummyfan; Liberty Valance; Perdogg; ...
In 1979, IIRC, I had a two-line part that got left on the cutting room floor in a series plot of a Steve Bochco TV series that only lasted one season, 1970-80. It was called "Paris" and had the future voice of Luke Skywalker's dear old pappy, James Earl Jones, playing a no-nonsense black police captain who was not above breaking the rules and stirring the pot to solve a case. Again, IIRC--

My strongest memory of the shoot was that the director was Jackie Cooper, a long time Hollywood figure who was a child star ("Don't shoot my dog!") that made the jump into adult film and television roles but never became a huge star. He did star in two childhood/early teenyears favorites of mine, the first a 1955-58 TV series "The People's Choice" where he shared top billing with a Basset Hound named Cleo plus the second, "Hennesey," where he played a Navy Doc that chased a very comely Abby Dalton as Navy nurse for 3 seasons, 1959-62.

As for my memories of Bochco, none directly. I do recall, as they say. the word on the street was that he was a control freak plus his normal for la-la-land 'liberal to the bone & beyond' politics.

48 posted on 04/02/2018 3:40:17 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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“Paris sounds interesting, pity it didn’t make it.

That’s what they get for cutting your scene!


56 posted on 04/03/2018 2:08:26 AM PDT by Impy (D's might have a registration edge in the district but that doesn't mean I have no virtue to signal.)
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