I just love Teds character, Captain Stottlmeyer ( and Ted, of course ) I found like the basic bio info but I was wondering if anyone might know of any new projects, movies , etc. he may be working on. Ted, Jason and Tony do such a great job, I can be laughing one minute and crying the next. Talk about an emotional roller coaster !! The chemistry between the guys is great !!
Thanks for any replies

Just had to chime in. Ted is da man!

Everyobdy loves da man Everybody loves the Captain

"Monk, don't touch anything here. This isn't our house. Jesus. Did I just
say, Our House??" LOL

HUGS

Not speaking on Stottlemeyer right now but rather on Ted--I'm watching Harlan County, USA. That's a documentary that gives you a lot of the backstory on what Ted's movie Harlan County War was based. I am sooooooo happy Ted decided to do that movie. Above and beyond enjoying his perfomance and feeling it was a very important story to tell, I have to admire Ted for accepting the role. He could have turned it down and I can't say personally why he decided to take it. He could have just done it for the money or maybe he did feel it was an important movie--I won't guess, but I'd like to assume the best. I can see from this documentary that his portrayal specifically, and the movie and script in general, were right dead on.

I'm the kind of person who pays attention--particularly to the little things that other people sometimes aren't paying attention to. Little things that people do when they don't have to do them and little things that are done without a lot of sound and fury and camera bulbs flashing. Seeing Ted do this movie as well as a couple other things I've seen him do recently, I went from thinking he was a very good actor, to also admiring him as a person and having a great deal of respect for him as a man. His wife and kids are very very lucky. Ted, in my opinion, is a very good man and a decent human being. I'd have the same respect for him if he was working on a loading dock or selling shoes in a mall.

And I'm saying all of that after having seen The Mangler. ROFL

Ted is pretty sexy sucking the lollipop. And no toupee!

He is a pretty nice piece of scenery to watch and not seeing that damn toupee is a big draw for me in that movie, but he could be three miles south of attractive and I'd still admire and respect him. I'm pretty dazzled by Ted Levine right now. There's nothing sexier than a good hearted man, no matter what he looks like. Oooh, I'm feeling all warm inside.

I second the emotion!

I don't know of any...of course I haven't looked....I've hardly got time for the boards in recent days. BUT I make the time....usually before bed as I sip my glass of wine .

I love the Cap S character too.

B
A glass of wine a day is good for your health.....& so is an eppie of Monk along w/ an eppie of House thrown in. LOL

Who needs apples?

I heard a lot of you talk about the Harlan County movie and just wonder if it was a made for TV movie ? I can not find it as a rental but I think I saw it somewhere online for sale. Just wondering , I kind of wanted to rent it.

According to IMDb, yes this was a made for TV movie. It was never rated by MPAA, so that also suggests it was never a theatrical release. If it had been rated, it would probably be an R for language and one sex scene.

I rented it from Netflix but I'm willing to bet you'd have a hard time finding it at Blockbuster or your local video rental place.

The southern drawls in the movie make it very difficult to understand through most of the movie and there's no CC or subtitles. You have to strain to understand much of the dialogue. I loved the movie, and it's a very good story which is based on true events.

Do you have trouble understanding southern accents in real life or is it another case of Hollywood way, way over-exaggerating the southern accents? That is one of my biggest pet peeves with Hollywood, when they make movies that are taking place in the south, but everyone's accents sounds exactly the same, and it's that Generic Overdone Hollywood Southern accent. People from different areas of the south do sound different from one another, and most of them really aren't difficult to understand by most people from other areas of the US. Cajuns from Louisianna can be difficult to understand, in large part because they do mix Acadian French with their English and there is a very thick accent on top of that, and some people from the Appalachians can be a little difficult to understand, but the vast majority of us aren't and don't really sound like Dolly Parton.

I dispise Nicholas Cage till this very day with a passion so intense that I'm surprised it doesn't set his crappy DVDs on fire, all because of Con Air. I can't think of a single, non-fictional person I hate even close to as much as I hate him for that sucky, stupid, insulting 'accent' he used in that movie.

Yes, made-for-TV, originally shown on Showtime ...

You can get it on DVD pretty cheap at Amazon (at that price, it's worth buying, IMO):

Harlan County War DVD

Tami

You should watch Harlan County, USA first and you'll see that the accents are especially thick--having seen that, I don't think it's overdone it in this particular case. The so-called "twang" or "drawl" can be light or heavy, and I think it's a regional thing. I have relatives in South Carolina and it's about midway there as far accents--not light or heavy. All drawls are not created equal. lol.

I was ten minutes into Harlan County, USA before I realized it was the documentary and not the movie that I had already seen 5 times. They did a fantastic job on this film in my opinion--they nailed it as far as recreating a 30-year old setting, representing the people--the dialogue is perfect, they just did a fantastic job all the way around. If this movie was set in Florida or the midwest or any other area where the accent is fairly mild, then yea, I'd say it grossly overdone.

You have to see Harlan County, USA first which was filmed in the '70s when the event was taking place and where they are interviewing the actual miners and their families. That's when I realized how close to the mark they hit it with this movie. I can't remember which channel I caught it on but they've been showing it all month. If I can find it, I'll post it. I definitely recommend it. Both of them actually.

I have a thread going on IMDb talking about Ted's and Tony's movies on each of their boards. I started them to ask for suggestions on which of their movies to see and asking in which ones they have any kind of screen time. Then I go in and kind of review movies as I see them--not as some pretentious critic but rather like a regular person who's just seen the movies. I covered this one in Ted's thread. It's really a very good movie.

Speaking of Ted Levine, has anyone seen The Mangler? OMG. When they started exorcising the demon from the antique laundry folding machine, I almost ruptured a spleen laughing. Some of Stephen King's books need to stay books. He's an incredible writer, not all of whose stories translate well to the screen.


Added: Aha! Just found it. They've been airing it on IFC - The Independent Film Channel I think. They last aired it May 11th. It should be coming up again and that's the channel to look for it. IFC shows some of the best movies I've ever seen and they're movies that are rarely if ever shown on the other channels. This is the channel I found Tsotsi on and that's a fantastic movie. Here's the link: Harlan County, USA on IFC

THE MANGLER was mangled! What an awful movie. Well, I guess TL had to pay some bills.

That's not the half of it. That spleen I ruptured laughing so hard?.....it wasn't even my spleen.

yvette--
Thank you so much for the nasal-cola rinse. (If'n you don't know, that's when you're taking a drink of cola just as you read yvette's post, and you know---the cola kinda squirts outta your nasal passages while you're choking from LOL-out loud and swallowing at the same time.) Haven't had a laugh that good all day. Truly---that was hysterical.

Meme

Wow. I've never been responsible for a nasal-cola rinse before. I have, however, been responsible for erupting corn chips in a movie theater. Then there was the time I was the reason for my ex-husband spewing warm milk on a nun. And of course there's that fat guy who split his pants at the Texas Roadhouse--I was the culprit there too.

Almost forgot--I once caused a 5-car pile up years ago in Akron. Oh, wait, I wasn't trying to be funny there. I was actually flashing a guy at the time. That's not the same though, is it? I don't know. Everybody was laughing so I'm claiming it.

Wasn't the Mangler about a possessed Industrial Washing Machine at a old decrepit Laundry Facility that handled the laundering for hotels and hospitals. Didn't all the washer women look like un-discovered sweaty super models? Except for the ugly and old washer woman that got mangled by the machine- Because she wasn't hot! Wasn't one of the movie's lead actors the guy that plays Freddy Kruger? Didn't Ted Levene play Buffalo Bill in The Silence of The Lambs? (Freddy Kruger meets Buffalo Bill!) Didn't Ted Levene play yet another angry cop? Wasn't there also another possessed appliance-a refrigerator that Ted Levine blows up at and theatrically over acts and kills beating it to "death" with a sledge hammer? It was like a Mummy movie, the monster moves so slow and is so falling apart you can run circles around it and kick it in the butt a few times before running away to safety backwards! All the people had to do was not stand near it or lean on it and they would all be safe. I think this movie gave Ted Levene the most on screen time of any movie he's been in and thats sad. lol.

It was a folding machine--it folded both the old lady and Freddy Kruger at the end. I think they cast all the supporting actors from a local community theater. The movie was based on a Stephen King novel, though in his defense, the screenplay was written by someone else entirely. It was a--correction, Tobe Hooper film--yeah, I was shocked too. The screenplay was written by someone also with the last name of Hooper--nepotistic train wreck?

And I personally won't lay the onus of bad acting at Ted's door--he seemed in parts to struggle with the horrendous dialogue, much the same way as I saw Tony Shalhoub struggling in parts of Thir13en Ghosts where the dialogue was stilted and awkward. For a couple of scenes, they have him saying hell in line after line and it's unavoidably awkward. There's no amount of acting skill that can transcend truly bad writing. And I think destruction of the refridgerator or whatever it was, became an issue because it had killed a child. Freddy Kruger's makeup in The Mangler was the worst I think I've ever seen, and yeah, that was Robert Englund playing the factory owner. He also played the nice alien in V. I'm not much of a Robert Englund fan. I think there are probably several very good reasons for that--The Mangler would be another one. rofl.

At least Thir13en Ghosts was watchable--personally I blew past the opening scene which was profoundly bad, and started where the opening credits began--that made it a lot more palatable, and it's even enjoyable in spots. Both of these actors have had head-on collisions with bad scripts. I've said it before and I'll say again here--I don't know what waterheads they both have screening scripts for them but I'd be more than happy to volunteer. They may not be as active in the future as they have in the past but I guarantee neither one of them would ever make another bad movie.

I chalk it up to having to make paper in the days before Monk. They couldn't afford to be choosy.

As a matter of fact, I could have sworn I saw Ted Levine laughing at one point in that scene where they're exorcising the laundry folding machine. I'd bet a sawbuck and a tank of gas that that's where he truly realized he was trapped in hell wearing gasoline underwear and that there was just no way to save that movie from being so bad.

Go ahead and have good cry Ted. I feel your pain.

"The Mangler" was "The ShowGirls" of bad horror movies. Any one seen "The Hills Have Eyes" bloodfest?

OMG--that was bad too. rofl. There's no shortage of bad horror flicks. Silence of the Lambs was one of the best--Ted probably should have stopped with that one. lol.


You can't sign onto a movie based on the writer or the director or the producer or who else is starring in it. I think Thir13en Ghosts, Hills Have Eyes, and The Mangler should have proven that. If Cecil B DeMille comes back from the dead and lays a script on your desk, read it from cover to cover....then read it again....then have someone else read it.....then go back and read it one more time. Hopefully both Ted and Tony know this now, and with no longer having to be so hungry--since Monk's been on--hopefully they're both doing this now. If not, my services are offered. I can spot bad movie in a lineup.

Has anyone seen Ted in Wonderland? It's a movie based on a true story...Ted plays the cop, natch!

I was thinking of netflixing it. Is it any good and does Ted have any screen time in it--like more than a walk-on?

It was awhile ago I watched it but as I remember it was pretty good considering it was based on a true event. Ted comes in during the second half. His screen time is about the same as he has on MONK and his character is very Stottlemeyer-ish.

I remember thinking at the time I was glad I had seen it.

PS: The Tic Code is pretty good, Tony plays in the first half. It's about a young boy who has Tourette's and a sax player with the same illness - a good watch for a lazy afternoon.

I agree 100% with you on that when it comes to choosing to develop a new movie it's smart to actually read the script but I think Ted Levene should have known what he was getting into considering the movie was a "re-make" of a 1970's horror cheese classic that was horrid to begin with. That might have given him his first clue!

No, they definitely are not, and some people should not be allowed to try to affect any of the southern accents for any reason. And these directors should *stop* getting actors and actresses from the south, and then making them exaggerate their own natural accents, because that is equally annoying.

I am from Mississippi, and to me, my accent doesn't sound so extreme, but when I lived in Texas for three years, *everyone* I talked to seemed to think it was really unusual. I lived near Ft. Hood, my husband was in the army, so I met exactly one person who was actually from Texas while I was there, but even she seemed to think my accent was highly unusual. Most people said it was 'cute' a few even went as far as 'charming' but some said, "You sound funny!" I told them no I didn't, they did. To me I think I sound like the Britney Spears of Chipmunks, but I do not sound anything like most of the supposed 'Southerners' in movies and on TV. Kentucky accents are generally pretty similar to Mississippi accents, but I think that in the mining areas there might be some different, thicker accents, like the way Cajuns have their own very different sounds from people who are just from Louisianna.



I don't get the Independant Film Channel, but I will look around and see if I can buy the DVDs or videos of these somewhere. I love Ted, so I'm sure that I won't regret buying the movie. I'm not a fan of horror films, so I generally don't get them, no matter who is in them, but this one isn't a horror flick.

THE HILLS HAVE EYES is not as bad as THE MANGLER. And TL is very sexy in it...before he gets beat up and cremated.

I probably just didn't express myself accurately here and I don't claim to be any expert on accents. I was just trying to say in a nutshell that once I saw the documentary, it was my opinion that the actors came very close to the mark as to how thick the accents were, of the actual miners and their families. Probably people who come from these areas can detect the difference but no actor I've ever seen nails any accent or dialect so expertly as to fool a person who actually speaks it. It's very close, in my opinion, and will scarcely be picked up as fake by the untrained ear of the general viewer. That's as good as can be expected. And yes, a lot of these hollywood actors do a very poor job at southern accents. Were I from the south, I'd be offended as well. I've seen English actors do southern accents, some very bad and some at least respectable attempts. Alan Rickman was one of them, and he's known for being able to do a multitude of accents even more than Tony Shalhoub.

I like to give credit where credit is due--they all did a damn good job in the film, Ted included. You may see it differently once you see the documentary and then the film. I'll be curious to see your comments once you've seen the films.

I feel your pain, Liv! I moved to Seattle from Dallas (Tx, naturally!) and every time I opened my mouth someone would say "You're not from here, are you?" Since I met so many people here that moved from somewhere else, I wanted to say "Is anyone really from here?" I never thought I had an accent either until I called my mom and noticed hers! LOL My grandmother and I were talking on the phone once and she said "You don't have your Texas accent anymore. You talk like those people from Seattle!" I was like "What do people from Seattle sound like? You've never BEEN to Seattle!"

I still like to say "Ya'll" occasionally, to "keep my foot in the door!"

Andrea

Thanks for the info on this! It's on my Netflix list and I've been curious about it for a while! Also, thanks everyone for the info on Ted's movies!

Someone mentioned Wiseguy--has anyone in here seen it? Ted's name is listed with the primary characters and third from the top--hopefully that means he has screen time. IMDb says it's a 1996 straight to TV release, and that it a Stephen J Cannell film--that's a very good sign it's a quality movie.

If anyone's seen it--please let me know if it's any good.

I thought everyone who spoke English said y'all for years, then I moved to Texas where almost everyone I met was from somewhere other than the South or Southwest, and a lot of them didn't know what y'all meant.

I had a friend from Englad come for a visit a few years ago, and I kept making him say y'all over and over again because it sounded so funny to me. Then my husband pointed out that Southern people sound funny to everyone else.





You Can Thank Me Later! Trust me on this one, Ted steals the show. There are a few recognizable actors in that movie besides him, but they honestly could have just filmed him doing his lines because he is far and away the best part of the movie. And you will thank me later. Especially after you see the Jello in the cafeteria scene, that's pretty funny. I loved his character, Ely so much. He's nothing like Stottelemeyer, but he's a great character.

I'm from Ohio and we all said "Y'ins" and "Y'ins guys." I think it's short for "You'ins," which of course is short for nothing. Go figure. rofl.



I'm leery of seeing this movie at all because there's supposed to be a lot of sex in it, and call me crazy but I don't like that. I just don't want to watch someone else doing that--it takes it out of natural context for me and I feel like a peeper. Movies like that, I like to wait until they air on TV when they're editted. I know I'm in the minority here. Blast away, everyone.....

Yes, Teddy has a very hot bathroom sex stall scene. Yum yum!

Hmmmmmm--I will never think of public restrooms in quite the same way again.

Meme

Pssssst, Ted--I'm going shopping later and I'll use the restroom if you promise to be at the same store.

Ew!!!! Passing......

rofl.

I don't even sit on public toilets to pee--I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be in there to do that! There's just nothing yummy about any guy trying to nail me in a public toilet. Barf! I'd be like "man up and spring for a room, or start chasing lot lizards." Pyuck!!

Hey, Teddy was SUMMONED into the stall. What's he gonna do, refuse?

Within the context of the script, which appears bad--no. Were it a real situation---yes. Absolutely.

Speaking of Stottlemeyer-ish movies Ted Levine has acted in, I was at a local garage sale about 6 weeks ago digging through old tired VHS tapes for an old neighbor when I came across a homemade VHS tape titled Mob Justice or The Race for Gus Farace. The magic markered in label listed stars Tony Danza, Samuel Jackson, Nickolas Turturro, and Ted Levine. The woman that ran the garage sale was thoughtful enough to have set up an old all in one tv with VHS player so that we could preview the tapes so that we would be sure not to purchase a broken one. I slid it in and watched about 20 minutes of it while chatting it up with these nice ladies. Ted Levine plays a cop exactly like Captain Leland Stottemeyer only 17 years younger! For you ladies that would like to see a young Stot watch this movie if you can find it. I got mine for 50 cents. Stottlemeyer even has anger issues when things don't go his way. When he finds out that his evidence is ruined he blows up and throws an object at a glass shelf display. Pure temper tantrum! He even has a girlfriend. The scene that had us all busting a gut was a scene where Ted was supposed to be up for a couple of very rough days searching for the "bad" guy, his clothing and everything about him was a dishelved mess except for his "hairpiece"? which was perfect! There is also a very funny scene where Ted is trying to look very serious and intense all the while holding an early portable phone the size of a loaf of bread with a huge antenna. Somethings just don't age well and should best be forgotten. Gotta love that Stot!

No one on any board seems to know anything about Wiseguy. How did that one fly under the radar? He's supposed to be in it quite a bit.

Yes that was Robert Englund in that movie alongside Ted. I've met Englund a few times, he is a wonderful guy. While the movie wasn't that great (yeah okay it sucked), I really liked seeing Ted in it.

I met him once at a convention, over 15 years ago as I remember. Decent enough guy and rather doing a back and forth with sci-fi fans, he spent much of his time on stage talking about working in the business--he was extremely interesting. I don't think he's ever made a movie I liked, however. rofl

Well, you can't really say with all certainty that the context of the script or the reason for him being there, the scene and whatever, was bad if you haven't seen it. There was a context for it, it was sort of important to the plot, and it did serve a purpose, one that's just kind of hard to explain, even to someone who has seen the movie, here without spoiling it for anyone else who hasn't seen it but wants to.

If you don't want to see it, and don't like to see adult or sex scenes in movies, there's nothing wrong with that. But it wasn't just a sex scene for the sake of sex, there was a purpose for it. The play itself was about three siblings, all raised by the same parents, but with all different expectations and different circumstances and methods that reflected those expectations and circumstances, and it showed how they all turned out, and how the way they were raised affected their relationships with their spouses (the two brothers had been married, the sister hadn't) and with their children, with other people in general. In addition to the sex scenes (which were really kind of tame in their own way, no one got really undressed even), there were also scenes showing these three adult children talking to their various counselors or therapists, to each other, to their mother, and to other people who were outside of their family circle, and in every scene, if you looked for them, you could see hints of who they were, how they became the people they are and how those things affected the connections they formed or were unable to form, the choices they made in their lives... It's about family dynamics and how they shape us and the way that we interact with our families and with the rest of the world, how we approach life. And sex/sexuality is a pretty important, major part of an adult's life.

Plus there are a lot of really funny parts in it as well as some very sad moments, scens that dealt with anger, loss, and all sorts of other strong emotions that we often try to suppress because we feel like they are inappropriate as adults.

And if it helps anything, Ted's character was meeting his wife in the bathroom for sex. Or, technically his ex-wife. One of the defining things about his character was that he found it pretty impossible to let people go and save himself, even if he knew he should, when he wanted to. His character was the most real, the most human and most likable character in the movie and Ted, of course, did a fantastic job. It's kind of a shame that you'll miss out on the wonderful 'Burger King' line if you con't see it, but then, I haven't seen a few of his movies because I can't deal with horror films.

I did rent Silence of the Lambs a couple of years ago, finally, because of Ted, though. I didn't watch most of it, I fast forwarded through every scene that didn't have Ted in it. Hey, maybe you could do that with You Can Thank Me Later. The sex scenes only make up a small portion of the movie, like maybe ten minutes total, which about how much of SotL that I *did* want to see. It really is a good role for Ted.

LOL!! He has done a lot of BAD movies I agree!

Yeah, speaking of Robert Englund, V was at least palatable but I don't care for those kinds of shows. Some of the Elm Streets were painfully corny and I hated him The Mangler.

Amen to that! I have to agree with you totally. Can anyone say M.R.S.A. (Methacillin-resistant staphylococcus arreus?Does Ted have a "wide stance"? I have to admit that I haven't seen this movie only the bathroom sex scene clip on Youtube and it wasn't sexy. My biggest problem was the children right outside the stall washing their hands innocently as the two "adults" do the "beast with two backs" like farm animals near by. Ewww! For God's sake "Get a room!" Whats wrong for Senator Larry Craig of Idaho should be wrong for Ted Levine. And what's with the cute little kid that made the mistake of peeking under the stall door? Who's going to pay for his years of therapy? LOL!