That it was, Keith. "Jack of Hearts", I mean.
---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Interesting Stuff about "Leverage" Actors Date : Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:35:14 +0000 (UTC) From : Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net> To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Yeah, I thought it was interesting they brought Helfer on as Michael's nemesis/handler. She does well enough in the role. I quite enjoyed Lucy Lawless' one-show stint as the assassin Michael had to stop, who actually manages to fool him for a while. Bruce Campbell is one of those actors who's just too cool for school! Leading man good looks, but spending most of his career in camp and lighthearted fare. I saw him do a two-part "Homicide" as a cop bent on revenge for his father's murder, and he was great. One wonders what kind of serious dramatic career he could have had. But I love all his stuff, even that goofy series "Jack of Hearts" (I think that was the name), where he was the swashbuckler. Remember that? It was paired with "Cleopatra 2525", a show I hate to admit I really liked too! They were both great, silly time-wasters. Did Campbell gain weight for his role on Burn Notice? Sam is always eating and drinking, and I don't remember him being this heavy before getting the series. As for Sticky Fingaz, he played just another thug who Michael had to scare out of town. The role actually demanded less acting chops than the late, unlamented "Blade" series he did! In fact, if I have any complaint about Burn Notice, it's that I haven't seen any black people get to play cool spies or agents, just crooks or victims. In the last few months, there was one show about a former gangster turned record mogul (with the requisite black youth with no parents), Fingaz's turn as a car thief, and last week's about a Haitian man wanting vengeance for the death of his daughter at the hands of a warlord. That last had all sorts of American actors--including Clarence Williams III--affecting those horrible Hollywood fake-Caribbean accents.Three shows in one season with blacks as criminals of the worst sort, and all cliches at that. That's the one thing I'd like to see them improve. Of course, I'm sure Russians, Cubans, Serbs, Slovenians, Czechs, and all sorts of others would c! omplain about their portrayals too! :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. Smith" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 9:59:55 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Interesting Stuff about "Leverage" Actors I noticed those as well. Burn Notice is good for giving genre actors and famous faces roles as villains. Tricia Helfer aka Six from Battlestar Galactica is Michael's nemesis Carla. Kirk "Sticky Fingaz" Jones(Blade), Oded Fehr(The Mummy)and Max Martini(Mack from The Unit) all guest starred as villain of the week. And of course Bruce Campbell of Evil Dead fame gets to chew up the scenery every week as Sam Axe. Jekyll is worth checking out. I saw bits and pieces of it on BBC America but never got to watch the whole thing. I've got it in my Netflix video on demand list. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson wrote: > > Yeah, I misspoke when I said he was a reporter on BSG. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tracey de Morsella" > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:13:31 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Interesting Stuff about "Leverage" Actors > > > > > > > > > > Sheppard is also Baltar’s lawyer on Battlestar and Bellman played the dizzy girl on BBC’s Coupling. > > > > > > From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 4:26 PM > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [scifinoir2] Interesting Stuff about "Leverage" Actors > > > Watching the penultimate ep of this season, I noticed that I'd seen two of the guest stars recently on another show. Character Jim Sterling--Nate's nemesis and former fellow investigator--is played by British actor Mark Sheppard. Sheppard was most recently seen playing a criminal on "Burn Notice", where he led his gang into a bank robbery foiled by Michael and crew. (Sheppard's also had guest starring roles on "Firefly" as a crime boss, "Medium" as a serial killer, and BSG as a reporter I believe). > > Then, toward the end of the "Leverage" ep, I did a doubletake when looking at Sterling's righthand security guy. That man is played by actor Alex Carter, who plays Michael's (former) nemesis, Agent Jason Bly on--that's right-- "Burn Notice"! Small world, eh? > > Also reading about Gina Bellman, who plays Sophie Devereaux on the show. Seems she starred in several episodes of a British series calle d "Jekyll", about a dude who's a descendent of the famous Dr. Jekyll (Mr. Hyde, actually, to be specific). Like his ancestor(s), buddy does the transformation thing when under stress. Interestingly "Jekyll" also starred Michelle Ryan, recently of "Bionic Woman" fame. Here's a short blurb on that series, which got good reviews and even earned the lead actor an award nomination. Anyone ever see it? > > ************************************************ > [from IMDB] > > "Jekyll" > London, 2007. Tom Jackman is the only living descendent of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He has made a deal with his dark side: a body share. What Mr. Hyde doesn't know is that Tom has a family. There is a wife and two children that he'll do anything to protect from his dark side. With all the resources of modern technology, and the best surveillance hardware, he's determined to keep his dark side in line. He's done a deal with his own devil. What neither of them knows is that an ancient organisation, with limitless wealth and power, is monitoring their every move, and a plan over a century in the making is coming to fruition. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
