I wonder if the tv show Monk is popular is Israel right now
PorchMonkey4Life
Inquiring minds want to know
NefeshBarYochai
william...@bluebottle.com
Michael Alden
I'm sure you have some racist reason for asking.
PorchMonkey4Life
> I'm sure you have some racist reason for asking.
>
What??? It deeply saddens me that you would think that. Just curious
because Tony Shalhoub is of Lebanese descent (but his character asks
like a neurotic jew).
PorchMonkey4Life
Did you have a contract dispute and leave like the actress that played
Sharona did?
jgarbuz
PorchMonkey4Life wrote:
> Inquiring minds want to know<
I don't live in ISrael anymore, but I liked the show when Monk had his
first partner, Sharon. This last chick looks and sounds too much like a
typical suburbunite. I lost interest in the show because of her.
Obviously, Sheloub is Lebanese, as was Danny Thomas. LEbanese are
great, except for the friggin muslim Shias. They ruined the country.
jgarbuz
Is that why she left? I stopped watching the show after she left it.
Monk without SHarona is like Costello without Abbot. It doesn't work
for me.
fzer0
No, Israel is ruining Lebanon.
morriss...@yahoo.com
>
> LEbanese are
> great, except for the friggin muslim Shias. They ruined the country.
Errrrrr... the Shias are bombing Lebanon's airports, roads, bridges,
hospitals and civilian areas? The Shias are murdering international
peace activists and targeting ambulances?
Woody
to iran where they belong!
Woody
destroy our country. The shias HIJACKED our country. The shias acted
solely without the consent of our government. If you play with fire you
get burnt. With their moronic blind beliefs they are destroying the
country yes. and you know what? They overcrowded our country with
beggars and illiterate people who only come to this world to fight
Israel for no reason, simply because that moron nassrallah and his
leaders from iran say so.
Adam H. Kerman
>PorchMonkey4Life wrote:
>>Did you have a contract dispute and leave like the actress that played
>>Sharona did?
>Is that why she left? I stopped watching the show after she left it.
>Monk without SHarona is like Costello without Abbot. It doesn't work
>for me.
Each of the members of the continuing supporting cast was asking for more
money during the third season. The producers would come to terms with Jason
Gray-Stanford and Ted Levine eventually. Bitty Schram barely appeared in
"Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf", ironic for a second reason since it
was a better script that would be nominated for an Edgar award. The three
continuing cast members were not written into "Mr. Monk and the Game Show",
presumably because they'd called in sick with blue flu to improve their
contracts. Miss Schram's last appearance was in "Mr. Monk Takes His
Medicine", for which Tony Shaloub won an Emmy for best lead actor in a
comdey series. This was the last 3rd season episode aired before USA's mid
season hiatus. In "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring", Sharona is written out
with a couple of lines of dialogue at the beginning of the episode.
It seems that the producers didn't come to terms with Miss Schram and she
was let out of her contract for the remainder of the season, or possibly
paid off and told that she couldn't offer her services to another producer
while third-season Monk episodes were being filmed.
I don't agree with you. I was starting to find Sharona a little tiresome,
although she was given a few featured episodes during the third season in
which she acquitted herself well. Unfortunately for the supporting cast,
both "Girl Who Cried Wolf" and "Game Show" were entertaining episodes,
neither of which relied upon the supporting cast. It drove the point home to
two of the three of them that it's not an ensemble show and it can go on
quite well without any of them.
This week, Natalie tricked Monk into opening a detective agency, a la
"Psych", a most unfortunately develpment.
extex
Quote Andy Breckman ,
"Bitty Schram, who played Monk's assistant on the first few seasons of
the show left after a contract dispute, Breckman told a questioner.
"There was a contract dispute and the actress wasn't happy doing the
show and wasn't shy about it, kind of making life miserable for others
on the show," Breckman said. >>>
Plus this possible spoiler Traylor Howard is pregnant.
>>Writing in Lamaze
Monk's new assistant is Natalie, played by Traylor Howard, who many in
the audience spoke fondly of. But Breckman said the script will have to
be adjusted because Howard is pregnant. He said, to laughter, he may
have Monk and Natalie going undercover to a Lamaze session. >>>
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Anim8rFSK
Natalie's growing on me, but the character really really really needed
to be a nurse, not a gopher.
Rich Handley
Don't bother debating the point -- it was clearly a troll comment, meant to
elicit the very reaction it did. No one is really that ignorant, aside
from the man running the White House.
Adam H. Kerman
>Quote Andy Breckman ,
>"Bitty Schram, who played Monk's assistant on the first few seasons of
>the show left after a contract dispute, Breckman told a questioner.
>"There was a contract dispute and the actress wasn't happy doing the
>show and wasn't shy about it, kind of making life miserable for others
>on the show," Breckman said.
Well, yeah. How does this not translate into a demand for more money? Anyone
would be happier at his job with a pay rise. Since when do producers care
about how well the cast gets along? Does someone's antics delay production?
If yes, then that actor is gotten rid of. If no, then the actor is ignored.
Hollywood contracts are indisputable. The producer owns your ass.
Robin Miller
BTW, here's a newspaper story with the quote. It's definitely legit.
http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060808/COMMUNITIES/608080327/1082
Here's the other interesting tidbit:
Among the showbiz insider information Breckman shared Monday was that
Tony Shaloub, the Emmy-winning actor who plays "Adrian Monk," almost
didn't get the role. His part originally was written for Michael
Richards, who played Cosmo Kramer on "Seinfeld." And Shaloub was
contractually obligated for a year with a different pilot and couldn't
shoot other pilot episodes. But a colleague suggested that 30 minutes be
added to the pilot making it a made-for TV movie, Breckman said. "Monk"
was eventually picked up, the other pilot wasn't, and now Shaloub is
perfect for the role, Breckman said.
--Robin
pmay...@yahoo.com
Right, it had nothing to do with Hezbollah which started a war by
attacking Israel on Israeli soil, then indiscriminately shooting
rockets onto civilians and destroying infrastructure, endangering
Lebanese civilians by operating from among civilians and refusing to
distinguish fighters from civilians by wearing uniforms as per the
Geneva Convention. Nothing to do with Iran trying to distract attention
from and sidelining action over their nuclear arms program, or Syria
trying to strengthen their grip on Lebanon (which they believe should
be a part of Syria).
Taylor
PorchMonkey4Life wrote:
> Inquiring minds want to know
Well, the actor playing "Monk" is Lebanese and it shows someone who is
Lebanese w/ a natural flaw, so.................................. I
would think not.
I wonder if episodes of "Who's The Boss?" w/ Jonathan Halyalkar playing
"Billy" in them would be popular in Lebanon (an untalented, unpopular
Jewish-American boy)????????
William December Starr
"Adam H. Kerman" <a...@chinet.com> said:
> Each of the members of the continuing supporting cast was asking
> for more money during the third season. The producers would come
> to terms with Jason Gray-Stanford and Ted Levine eventually. Bitty
> Schram barely appeared in "Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf",
> ironic for a second reason since it was a better script that would
> be nominated for an Edgar award.
Are you sure you have the right episode title there? Firstly, "Girl
Who Cried Wolf" had a lot scenes with Sharona, as the idiot bad gal
and her lunk boyfriend(?) kept trying to gaslight her, and secondly
I can't believe that that script got nominated for anything except
maybe a Golden Raspberry.
--
William December Starr <wds...@panix.com>
fzer0
> Right, it had nothing to do with Hezbollah which started a war by
> attacking Israel on Israeli soil,
Hezbollah started a war? Hezbollah was born from Israel war in the
80's. The only reason why they are still here today is because Israel
has given them a reason to.
Lebanon is a divers country and the Shi'a doesn't represent everyone.
Israel is killing innocents to fight a "war" which cannot be resolve by
violence.
extex
The whole supporting cast was written out of Game Show and Bitty was"
unavaiable "for some scenes in Takes His Medicine.They used a double
with a scarf on,they also used a double in the Mafia one for some
scenes.
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jga...@netzero.com
Woody wrote:
> No the shiass are not doing that, the shias invited a war machine to
> destroy our country. The shias HIJACKED our country. The shias acted
> solely without the consent of our government. If you play with fire you
> get burnt. With their moronic blind beliefs they are destroying the
> country yes. and you know what? They overcrowded our country with
> beggars and illiterate people who only come to this world to fight
> Israel for no reason, simply because that moron nassrallah and his
> leaders from iran say so.
>
If in the end Israel manages to wipe out, or drive out most of the Shia
from LEbanon into
Syria, it would have done the civilized Christians and Druze of Lebanon
a great service.
Let the SHia go to Syria, Iran or southern Iraq to kiss Moqtada Sadr's
fat ass.
Then the Jews of ISrael and the Christians and Druze of Lebanon will
rebuild in peace
and prosperity with no enmity!
Listen, if Hezbollah is permitted to remain armed and intact after this
war, then Iran will hand them chemical, biological and radiological
warheads to shoot at Haifa and Tel Aviv, and then we have a nuclear
war! So I would suggest the Lebanese to turn on Hezbollah and work with
Israel to get rid of them, before they destroy Lebanon completely.