Posted on 08/05/2005 9:59:12 AM PDT by churchillbuff
Thanks to "American Idol," lots of Americans got to know Hugh Laurie last TV season.
Laurie plays the title character in "House," a hospital drama that flashed expansive promise at launch but failed to pick up ratings steam until "Idol" arrived as its lead-in. [snip]Those late-arriving viewers discovered an unlikely hero in Dr. Gregory House, an irascible, pill-popping medical detective whose bedside manner could frighten patients at death's door into robust health.
A native of Britain and the son of a doctor, Laurie was educated at Eton and Cambridge University, where he studied anthropology.
Some of his work for the BBC has aired on American television ("Jeeves and Wooster" ran on PBS' "Masterpiece Theater" in the early 1990s), but he may be best known for roles in films ranging from "Sense and Sensibility" to "The Man in the Iron Mask" to "Stuart Little."
During his interview session with TV critics gathered here for the summer press tour, Laurie flashed wit, charm and a British accent that he hides when he's House.
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I didn't remember it that way. Sorry.
When I saw the numerous promos for this show before it premiered, I never once heard the name of the actor playing the title character! But I remember saying, "darn, that guy is the spitting image of Hugh Laurie." Of course, he didn't have any trace of an accent so I was fooled (kudos to Hugh).
If I had known that Hugh Laurie was playing the role, I would have tuned in to check out the show because I have loved his comedy work.
Yes. Many apologies for the inconwenience.
Very good show- my friend turned me on to it last year. Just a question- have they ever disclosed how House got his limp?
I was wondering if it was in a lacrosse game. They had him watching a game, wistfully and imaging back to himself playing.
Great actor, excellent show!
I was most upset at that!! They coulda done in the rookie and I would have been marginally annoyed but not totally shocked.
When does the new season start?
The girl was a gymnast who was 13 and had gotten pregnant on the road with her team by an 18-year-old teammate, while she was supposedly under the coach's supervision. The pregnancy caused a rare life-threatening condition, but because of this stupid law, he couldn't even tell her frantic parents what was wrong with her, so the life-or-death decision was entirely in the immature hands of a 13-year-old. The scene where the parents stop him in the hall and beg him, "Can't you PLEASE just tell us what's wrong with our daughter?" and he stares at them and spits out, "No...I CAN'T" and walks off spoke volumes about how he felt about that law.
Embarrassed to say - was that a movie or a TV show? I've never seen it.
They showed it in the final episode of the season, the one that introduced the (gorgeous) Sela Ward. When it airs again, run tape on it; it's one of the best-written and performed hours of TV I've ever seen. It starts with House being forced to teach a class on forensic medicine, turns into hypothetical cases of three people, all with different leg injuries, then at the end, you discover he's been spinning these stories from his own experience and you see how he became limp and what Sela Ward and his own stubbornness had to do with it. Absolutely brilliant.
The idea that that dried-up Clinton fantasy "The West Wing" was nominated for best drama series Emmy AGAIN and "House" wasn't shows you how moronic and politically-partisan most people in the TV industry are.
Not as much as you might assume. I caught the context and still didn't like the episode. My opinion.
Are you sure you want to know how he got his limp? It might spoil it for you. They are in first season reruns right now, and if you hang in there they will get to an episode (with Sela Ward coming in as his ex) that explains it all.
We never miss this program. Was recommended by a friend in the medical field and well worth the watch.
That's okay. Everybody has the right to be wrong. :)
:)
Dr. Cutty is never dressed like a Hospital Administrator should be!
And aren't we thankful for that, eh?
My favorite show.
I disagree.
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