Cop box art courtesy MGM
DVD Tuesday Good CopBad CopPsycho Cop James Woods is all three in this pre-LA Confidential James Ellroy thrillerI was reading James Ellroys Hollywood Nocturnes over the weekend and wondering why the success of LA Confidential 1997 did nothing to raise the profile of Cop 1988 a brutal little thriller based on his Blood on the Moon I couldnt come up with a theory but this week I decided to do my bit Cop opened with no fanfare but I was already a James Woods fan I dont think I even knew who Ellroy was back then so I took a flyer on it and I was hooked from the credits sequence black screen two voices a 911 operator and a guy reporting a murder And its grimly hilarious because the good citizen is trying to pussyfoot around the fact that hes a burglar trying to do the right thing while not admitting that his knowledge of the crime hes reporting was acquired mid-BE Woods who coproduced the film with director James B Harris plays LAPD detecti
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With Luke heading into the story-line spotlight on As the World Turns, wouldn't it be great to see his biological father, Damian Grimaldi, back on the CBS serial? Viewers miss Italian stallion Paolo Seganti, who left ATWT in the '90s to do films like L.A. Confidential and Tea with Mussolini. More recent TV gigs include ER and Freddie. He's also married and has two kids with Carlotta Chang, who played daytime's first transgender character on The City.
Soaps in Depth — the mag where I started my sudsy career — recently interviewed Seganti, who's still gorgeous and quite open to a third return stint as Damian. "I was just talking to Martha [Byrne, Lily] and she wants me to go back on the show," he said. "I miss New York, and I'd love to go back, but we're just talking. It's not my decision. It depe
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Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry is teaming with Don Mancini (creator of the Chucky films) to develop an hourlong suspense drama for ABC titled Kill/Switch. Although details of the show are hard to come by, Variety says it will feature a supernatural element and, quite possibly, a lead female character who's lifeless. (Paging Elisabeth Rohm....) In other development news, 24 masterminds Bob Cochran and Joel Surnow have sold a drama pilot to Fox that's being billed as a modern-day L.A. Confidential.
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