Another Law & Order hiring

I saw Caruso a few times on NYPD and remember how he left to become a big movie star.

In CSI Miami, just listen to him deliver lines. I'd write down some type of humorous analogy, but I can't even think of one.

 

David Spade did a good rip on Caruso on the Showbiz Show a couple of weeks back.

 

I liked him on NYPD Blue. Then he went off and starred in Jade. Was that the name of it?And it was God-awful. I haven't been able to watch CSI: Miami because of it.

 

Caruso is up there with Chuck Norris as Walker:TX Ranger as characters who are deathly serious but amazingly, unintentionally hilarious.

 

That, my friend, is a bold statement, even with the "may" thrown in there.

 

Agreed, except I'd say Caruso as Horatio Caine. Caruso as Det. John Kelly on Blue was a believable character.

But, yes, CSI:Miami is right up there with 24 as the best unintentional comedy on TV these days.

 

It's pretty sad when you peak after 12 lines in an Officer and a Gentleman, yet keep getting acting jobs....
Caruso is weak

 

So will this be the last year of L&O: The Mother Ship?

I don't know enough about Jovich to comment about her casting, and I even think having a male/female dynamic in the detective team could be a shot in the arm. [As long as it doesn't get as absurd as Meloni and the Hungarian.]

But it seems like they've again gone the assistant to the ADA as eye candy/wallpaper route, which does not exactly inspire confidence.

 

That's funny, because Jack Palance got an Oscar for having only 12 lines in High Noon.

Caruso reminds me of a gross caricature of the smarmy cop who investigates Kramer for the murder of the starlet in the Seinfeld 3-fold episode when they go to L.A.

 

Beatrice Straight won an Oscar for Network for one scene and fewer lines that Palance had.

 

It's quite a long way the all-guy beginnings: Logan, Greevey, Robinette, Stone, Cragan and Adam Schiff.

I'd also point out what happened to "Homicide": A great show with great actors who weren't lookers. By the end, they punched up the looker quotient, to the acting's detriment.

 

True. I think the poster child for that was Michael Michele, who was equally vapid as a Baltimore police detective and as a Chicago doctor on ER.