Evan Handler (Sex and the City) guest-stars on Shark April 5.... John Ventimiglia (The Sopranos) is Caseman's AA sponsor on Six Degrees April 6, 13 and 27.... Lynn Redgrave is Ian's mother on Desperate Housewives April 8.... Kate Jackson (Charlie's Angels) is Paget Brewster's ambassador mother on Criminal Minds April 11.... Mark Feuerstein (3 LBS) on Shark April 12.... Ken Davitian (Borat) on Ghost Whisperer April 27.... And Jeremy Sisto (Kidnapped) dials up Numbers April 27.
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Everybody Hates ChrisJust when I was thinking that Chris' little sister Tanya was the reincarnation of Dee from What's Happening!! (yes, the official title really has two exclamation points), Chris came out of the changing room wearing his Rerun outfit. It was picture day, and he was desperately shopping for the right ensemble. He looked pretty fresh in the Don King, covered from head to toe in red. (Actually it looked like what Marilyn Manson wore on the back cover of The Golden Age of Grotesque. Look it up.) But ultimately, he settled on a less flashy suede top. I love what Julius said when Chris insisted he needed special clothes. "When I was a kid, we didn't have special clothes. Just having clothes was special." He always has to on
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We got the beat: Sam Melville, Georg Stanford Brown and Michael Ontkean, The Rookies
Question: I used to have a huge crush on Michael Ontkean, when he was on The Rookies (way before he was on Twin Peaks). What was his claim to fame before that? And before you even ask: Yes, I still have a crush on him.
Answer: You and half the girls in my second-grade class, Melissa. (Me, I had a thing for Kate Jackson, but no self-respecting boy of that age would've admitted girls were anything but really gross back then.)
Ontkean, who, as you say, would go on to play Sheriff Harry S. Truman on Twin Peaks in 1990, was an actor and, of all things, a hockey player in his earlier years.
Before playing the role of Officer Willie Gillis on ABC's Rookies from 1972 to 1974 (his character was replaced by Bruce Fairbairn's Officer Chr
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