Boston Legal Returns Tonight

I will have it on. Some episodes are extremely good, while others get into a silliness I don't care for. I especially like the odd characters who show up, notably the lawyer nicknamed "Hands." Or the guy Betty White killed, after he killed his mother and the neighbor.

I watched it.

It was silly but I liked it anyway.

Plus, the storyline around Michael J Fox is interesting, to say the least.

I find it hard to watch Fox.

I'm certainly not a big fan of his, but his portrayal of a millionaire dying of lung cancer determined to get everything out of every drop of life he has left is compelling.

Did anyone notice the re-cycling of all the old actors on this seasons shows?

I've actually really enjoied the season so far. I'm not sure if I like the two new lawyers though, he seems really annoying, and she's just crude...

I don't find Grey's Anatomy as good this season, either.

Candace Bergan had a mild stroke, but they say she is making a full recovery.

Is this recent?

http://www.tmz.com/2006/09/28/candace-bergen-did-not-have-a-stroke/

Happened this past week.

BBB
Boston Legal is one of my favorite shows. I've been madly in love with James Spader since he was on The Practice, where he developed his Alan Shore character.

More about James Spader:

Often noted for his comment that he enjoys working in all of his films -- as long as he doesn't have to see any of them -- actor James Spader may have missed out on seeing a few good performances in some pretty memorable films.

Though descended from a long line of scholars and professors, Spader, in ironic contrast to his theatrical image as the definitive terminal yuppie, dropped out of Phillips Andover prep school to pursue a career as an actor. Forsaking his formal education, Spader instead decided to focus his attention on acting by studying at the Michael Chekhov school in New York, while also working a variety of odd jobs to support himself until he found success as a thespian.

Making his debut in the 1978 comedy Team Mates, Spader began the slow process of gaining more frequent work with roles of increasing substance. Spader's first role came in Franco Zeffirelli's soft-core teen melodrama Endless Love (1981) (also notable as the debut of another young unknown actor named Tom Cruise. After a brief, mid-'80s stint in teen exploitation including Tuff Turf and The New Kids (both 1985), Spader gained mainstream recognition with his first fore in yuppiedom as Molly Ringwald's insincere suitor in Pretty in Pink (1986).

Over the course of the next few years, Spader would refine his slimy persona to perfection in Wall Street (1987) and Less Than Zero (1987), and take an interesting turn as a possible serial killer in the Jack the Ripper thriller Jack's Back (1988), but it was the end of the decade that brought the defining role in Spader's career.

Though his role in independent filmmaker Steven Soderbergh's voyeurism-obsessed sex, lies and videotape did little to propel his persona into more likeable territories, it showed an actor with considerable talent who wasn't afraid to take risks, winning him the Best Actor award at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. Spader's dark portrayal of the ominously seductive videophile struck a chord in audiences and critics alike and turned him into a household name.

The '90s found Spader expanding his yuppie image into more sympathetic territory with roles in White Palace and Bad Influence (both 1990), and he continued his likeable trend in the first of the mega-budget Dean Devlin/Roland Emmerich collaborations, Stargate (1994), before reverting back as Jack Nicholson's manipulative lycanthropic rival in Mike Nichols' imaginative satire Wolf (1994).

Controversy soon followed with David Cronenberg's widely panned study of fetishistic alienation Crash (1996), and Spader has worked steadily since, with roles in Supernova (2000) and Speaking of Sex (2001). With the release of Secretary (2002), Spader once again found himself in the favor of art house audiences for his portrayal of a demanding lawyer who hires a recently released mental patient for the eponimous duty.

~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide