So, this is kind of fun.
Dr Emerson, the gynecologist in Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, is played by Remy Auberjonois. I looked it up awhile ago, and the name was so familiar, but I couldn’t place him.
Today I read it (in I Let My Fists Do the Talking, a blog by the woman who designed the header for Rich Sommer’s blog) and I was like WAIT. I TOTALLY KNEW THAT.
Remy is the son of Rene Auberjonois (and sorry to totally steal, but really, these are the two identifiers…) of Odo and Benson fame.
So just… cool!
May 2, 2008 at 3:13 am
I loved Rene Auberjonois on Benson. Remember how that show was a spin-off of Soap? Loved that as a kid.
May 2, 2008 at 5:12 am
I could never get into Benson, but of course I’ve seen some of it here and there… you couldn’t not, back then. I was, however, a huge Soap fan. I doubt I missed an episode. Even though it jumped the shark (I’m thinking it was when Bert got abducted by aliens. No wait, it was earlier. It was when Corinne’s baby was possessed by the devil.), we all kept watching.
May 2, 2008 at 8:27 am
The official word favors the alien abduction as the shark-jumping moment.
May 2, 2008 at 8:45 am
I saw Rene Auberjonois in Big River on Broadway in 1987. He was the Dauphin. Terrific.
But John Goodman stole the whole show as Huck Finn’s Pappy. Man, that was a great show.
May 2, 2008 at 10:16 am
I know. A lot went terribly wrong on Soap. One of the comments in JtS pointed out how the breakthrough gay character (Jody, played by the nearly unknown Billy Crystal) kept sleeping with women. That was quite true… initially he was quite fey, and then got straighter as he got more popular. Will Truman never went that way but hello, we are talking about a two-decade difference.
May 2, 2008 at 5:13 pm
The thing that annoyed me about Soap was that it was clearly a more palatable rip-off of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, which was smarter, edgier, and never gave up its darkness. MH2 made the careers of Mary Kay Place, Martin Mull, probably others I’m not thinking of.
Soap is one of those shows I didn’t watch at first, and then caught in reruns, and I did absolutely love it when I finally came around, and it gets lots of credit for the way it pushed “openly gay” in a way that hadn’t really been pushed before.
May 2, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Oh, and by the way, way to go with the unbelievably offensive funny post title.
May 2, 2008 at 11:42 pm
THANK you!