Martha Fischer (sakana@stlnet.com)
Fri, 22 Oct 1999 07:11:35 -0500
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Cops from canceled cop series to reunite for a TV
movie
by Julie Keller
The cops from Homicide: Life on the Street are coming
back to fight
crime in Baltimore.
After a year of rumors and speculation about reuniting
following the
cancellation of the seven-year, award-winning NBC
drama, more
than 20 cast members are returning to duty in an NBC TV
picture,
Homicide: The Movie.
Production begins in Baltimore in November, and the
movie will be
ready for its Peacock network premiere in the
spring.
Emmy winner Andre Braugher is set to reprise his role
as Detective Frank Pembleton. Other
favorites coming back include Ned Beatty as Detective
Stanley Bolander, and Richard
Belzer, taking a break from Law The killed-off
characters of Daniel Baldwin and Jon Polito
will be back as Detective Beau Felton and Steve
Croscetti, respectively.
(We're guessing
flashback.)
The show's original executive producers Barry Levinson
(Wag the Dog) and Tom Fontana
(HBO's Oz) are also on board.
The hardened batch of detectives will come together to
search for the killer of one of the
Baltimore's finest. While the network claims the movie
is made for fans and non-fans alike, it
also promises to answer some unresolved questions
lingering from the show's last season.
The series, winner of three Peabody Awards, three Emmys
and two Writers Guild Awards,
managed to attract a cult-like following of fans, many
of whom are wary, yet excited about
the prospect of reuniting their favorite crime
fighters.
"Will they be able to capture the magic?" asks one
cyberfan on the alt.tv.homicide
newsgroup. "Who knows, but it will be fun to watch them
try."
Others are more concerned. "The script supervisor is
going to have a hell of a time getting
everything right," grumbles another fan on the same
newsgroup.
Even the most cynical Homicide fan has to be impressed
with the upcoming movie's extensive
credits, however. Other cast members returning include
Reed Diamond as Detective Mike
Kellerman; Giancarlo Esposito as Special Agent Mike
Giardello; Michelle Forbes as Dr.
Juliana Cox; Peter Gerety as Detective Stuart Gharty;
Isabella Hoffman as Captain Megan
Russert; Zeljko Ivanek as Ed Danvers; Clark Johnson as
Detective Meldrick Lewis; Yaphet
Kotto as Lieutenant Al Giardello; Melissa Leo as
Detective Kay Howard; Toni Lewis as
Detective Terri Stivers; ER's Michael Michele as
Detective Rene Sheppard; Max Perlich as
James Brodie; Kyle Secor as Detective Tim Bayliss; John
Seda as Detective Paul Falson and
Callie Thorne as Detective Laura Ballard.
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