Apparently
Friar Bruce Willis wasn't able to shower after his role in Die
Hard before moving onto his Showtime role in True West. Willis
played an uncouth, drunken drifter who collaborates on a screenplay
with his preppy brother. The play was filmed during a local nonprofit
theater company production in Idaho. As a matter of fact, Willis'
theater company where he performed with friends oh, and directed
them too. Who says big stars don't take on little parts-and then
get Showtime to air them. |
After sixteen
years, Friar Robin Williams was back touring on the stand-up comedy
circuit. From a string of sappy, serious film roles he recently
flung himself (literally) on stage. For two non-stop hilarious hours
he pranced, joked, and mused seamlessly gliding through topics while
consuming or dousing himself with water from dozens of bottles on
a nearby table. The tour culminated in an HBO special. Time for
another tour to get him out of this new film phase- playing psychopaths |
Friar Richard
Lewis took his neurosis to rabbinical heights when he guest starred
as a Rabbi on the WB's 7th Heaven. The storyline involved
his Jewish daughter marrying the son of a Christian minister with
both father's feuding over the nuptials. If only more people had
watched Bridget Loves Bernie then that show might still be
on the air and feuds like this would be a thing of the past. True,
it is just a TV show but Lewis makes madness look so real.
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Apples don't fall far
from trees. Friar Phyllis Diller proved that when she guest-starred
as Mimi's grandmother on The Drew Carey Show. It figures
the outlandish Mimi (Kathy Kinney) would have an equally outlandish
Diller as her kinfolk. Phyllis packed the same verbal wallop as
Mimi, getting Carey's goat every time. Since our funny Friar retired
from touring with her stand up she's spending more time sitting
down in guest shots and whatnot. Long as we get a dose of Diller,
it's all good. |
Contrary to some, Dinotopia
is not a rock concert sponsored by Dean Martin afficionados but
the title of a critically acclaimed ABC miniseries produced by Friar
Robert Halmi. It tells the epic story of a lost continent where
dinosaurs and humans live together in an almost utopian world. Funny,
isn't that what the Friars Monastery experience is like? "26" is
an infant Chasmosaurus controlled off -screen to blink, breathe,
and wriggle her tail convincingly. See? Just like a Friar or two.
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Friar Tony Lo Bianco starred
in the PAX TV suspense drama, Mary Higgins Clark's Lucky Day.
This is not the story of the day the mystery writer found a ten
spot on the sidewalk, but the television version of her short story
Lucky Day. Lo Bianco plays a detective investigating the
murder of a lottery winner. Lo Bianco, of The French Connection,
is no stranger to police roles. He's even traveled with the NYPD
investigating cases from murder to kidnapping to drug busts. Talk
about your method actors. |
