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candystripper -> One Reason I Love Law and Order (8/11/2008 7:31:41 PM)
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I am a huge Law and Order fan....I find it some of the best writing on television. However, another coup the series has achieved over the years is great casting for episodic characters.
Among the actors chosen for roles on the show are two I have admired all their careers and not seen often of late.
One is Kathleen Turner, a star of the 1981 film 'Body Heat' which combined extraordinary casting and writing to generate one of the most devious and sexiest films of the decade. If you have not seen it, you should. In the film, Kathleen Turner's perfect body is almost a separate charater in itself....and yet in recent years, she has been striken by rhematoid arthritus. The perfect body is no longer, though she will always be beautiful, but her ability to act is undiminished and she has turned in absolutely flawless performances on the show.
Another actress chosen for episodic roles whom I admire is Lynda Carter. As 'Wonder Woman', an early '70's television show, her 38-20-37 figure was amazing to everyone, even kids. Her 'credits' include gracefully standing beside her husband as he was tried and found not guilty of banking fraud, and entering a rehab clinic for alcoholism after holding a press conference to give support to others in need to seek help. I have always been struck b the fact that she has acted with integrity and abplomb and never, in my opinion, capitalised on her appearance in a way that dengegrated women. Her appearances on Law and Order, in the role of villian, were as compelling as Kathleen Turner's.
I applaud the show's producers for thinking outside the box and using older female actresses to the advantage of the series.
candystripper
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