On stage, he was a regular with Welles’ Mercury Theater, the groundbreaking 1930s troupe that also featured Joseph Cotton and Agnes Moorehead and formed the basis of Welles’ classic film debut, “Citizen Kane.” 8, 1914, in Jersey City, New Jersey, Lloyd jumped into acting as a youngster in the 1920s. Stage magazine put Welles on its June cover and proclaimed the production “one of the most exciting dramatic events of our time.”īorn Nov. Norman played the small but key role of Cinna the Poet, opposite Welles’ Brutus. I think Harmon would have objected to that just as strongly as Sikes, if true.He was also part of Welles’ 1937 modern-dress fascist-era production of “Julius Caesar” that has gone down in history as one of the landmark stage pieces in the American theater. I had wondered if their goal was to make Bobby Caldwell bisexual. He becomes rather one-note just in medical scenes all the time. I think he lost a bit of steam in Season 3 without Joan Halloran on the show full-time. But I was reading the episode synopses here on your website and was surprised that Bobby turns into a heel. Re: Harmon, I just barely started Season 4 on Hulu. It's a shame they didn't try to do the storyline properly later on with another actress/character. I suppose if Sikes had not objected to the storyline, we would have seen more of Caroline McWilliams' character as the lover. There does not seem to be any mention of Annie at the beginning of Season 4. I thought maybe that was a little public service announcement to encourage viewers not to spread germs. I didn't realize the sneeze scene was her last one. In my episode recaps, I was hoping to catalogue all those, but unfortunately, I have so much work to do on other projects that I can't make time for those anytime soon. The show has a lot of inside jokes like that. And that was the end of Samuels and Cavanero. Ben Samuels towards the end of season 1-she's walking by the nurses' station, she has a cold, she sneezes into her sleeve, and tells someone that it spreads fewer germs to cover your sneeze that way-i.e. There's a visual gag they did with Sikes in particular to comment on the situation: in her last episode, she plays a scene that duplicates a scene from the last episode of David Birney as Dr. That's why Mark Harmon turns heel in season four and then is shown the door-he told the writers to "get excited about his character." In the People magazine feature about him leaving the show (I have an old post linking to that), the article's author even writes something like, "You can almost imagine the writers thinking, heh heh, Harmon, is this what you were asking for?" Elsewhere behind the scenes: if an actor challenged the producers on what they wanted to do with their character, they'd find themselves out of a job. Reply DeleteĬynthia Sikes was dropped from the show precisely because of that storyline, and you're right-Sikes objected to playing a lesbian (and literally cried to a network exec, to which Bruce Paltrow countered that pretending to cry was just her actor's trick to manipulate him), so they re-wrote the character in that storyline to reflect her attitude. Elsewhere characters - Peter White, Wendy Armstrong, Bobby Caldwell and Mrs. But I remember reading an article in TV Guide (?) about the shocking departures of many St. If any of these details are wrong I apologize. From what I understand there were no hard feelings on anyone's part as they thought it was best and would make for a shocking twist. That's why her bulimia story line is a bit abrupt. The producers decided that they could not explain Armstrong's absense and thought it would be a way to solve how Pete stays with Wendy leaving. They did not intend to drop the character but rather for the audience to think one of the "nicer" characters was being written out. At the same time the producers and writers wanted to create a story line that Jack may not be invited back for the next year of residency. The filming of the movie was going to conflict - not with the whole season of St. Kim had been cast as Yoko Ono in the television film John and Yoko: A Love Story. As for Kim Miyori's departure I had heard at the time it was several factors that came together.
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