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To: mrustow
Oh yeah... Chicago Hope. Sorry I said ER didn't I? I was thinking of medical drama shows that started to suck so I stopped watching... ER immediately came to mind. MY BAD.
105 posted on 10/14/2003 4:51:09 PM PDT by cyborg (Kyk nou, die ding wat jy soek issie hierie sienj)
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To: cyborg
Oh yeah... Chicago Hope. Sorry I said ER didn't I? I was thinking of medical drama shows that started to suck so I stopped watching... ER immediately came to mind. MY BAD.

No sweat. They both started the same week (1995?), and I used to be a fan of both, though I lost interest in Chicago Hope much sooner ... about the same time its producer, David Kelley, did. I looked it up last spring, on jumptheshark.com, and was surprised to discover that it had been cancelled a couple of years earlier.

I did love Mandy Patinkin on that show, though, as surgeon Dr. Jeffrey Geiger, and some of the things Kelley did early on, like have the Patinkin character direct a musical in a madhouse, starring his beloved but insane wife. That permitted Patinkin to sing a heartbreakingly beautiful medley he'd also recorded, that included "When I Get Too Old to Dream." Kelley has that romantic, "love-is-forever" side, but he also has his "what's-this-week's-gimmick?" side, and so eternal love eventually got bumped off, in favor of a new gimmick, and Geiger divorced his wife.

143 posted on 10/15/2003 11:11:16 AM PDT by mrustow (no tag)
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