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captainsblogWe recently rented Death Becomes Her, which got me waxing (no, not THAT KIND) nostalgiac for the days when Bruce Willis played actual parts rather than Action Heroes™. That, in turn, led to netflixing the pilot episode of Moonlighting, which we used to enjoy for the witty repartee between his David and the equally talented Maddie played by Cybill Shepherd.
Moments into the pilot just now, I recognized the character actor playing Maddie's lawyer. It was Roger Bowen, who was the original Henry Blake in Altman's MASH and the stuffed-shirt boss Hamilton Majors Junior on the very underrated early 70s CBS sitcom Arnie. I had an odder recollection of him, though, from the years he used to do commercials as the pitchman for the NYC-area supermarket PathMark.
Just one problem. Roger Bowen doesn't show up in the IMDB for Moonlighting, nor is there any reference to him and PathMark in a single internet entry other than, eventually, this one.
No. Roger had a doppleganger by the name of James Karen, who WAS the commercialized face in more than 5,000 commercials, most of them for PathMark, and who was, indeed, Maddie's lawyer in the Moonlighting pilot.
For the record, Tom Bosley and David Doyle were also different actors, even though they named the latter after the former for his role on the TV series Charlie's Angels because everybody thought the latter was the former.
Has your brain exploded, too, yet?
Moments into the pilot just now, I recognized the character actor playing Maddie's lawyer. It was Roger Bowen, who was the original Henry Blake in Altman's MASH and the stuffed-shirt boss Hamilton Majors Junior on the very underrated early 70s CBS sitcom Arnie. I had an odder recollection of him, though, from the years he used to do commercials as the pitchman for the NYC-area supermarket PathMark.
Just one problem. Roger Bowen doesn't show up in the IMDB for Moonlighting, nor is there any reference to him and PathMark in a single internet entry other than, eventually, this one.
No. Roger had a doppleganger by the name of James Karen, who WAS the commercialized face in more than 5,000 commercials, most of them for PathMark, and who was, indeed, Maddie's lawyer in the Moonlighting pilot.
For the record, Tom Bosley and David Doyle were also different actors, even though they named the latter after the former for his role on the TV series Charlie's Angels because everybody thought the latter was the former.
Has your brain exploded, too, yet?
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Date: 2008-06-12 02:59 pm (UTC)Continental Flange. Ah, yass.