In Hollywood, careers rise and fall. We were watching the show Numb3rs today. It had quite a good cast. Guess who’s there that we still remember. Judd Hirsch. Everybody else in the show has no more career. The star, David Krumholtz, has turned into a blue whale. The guy who played his brother, whatshisname, has never been seen again. Diane Farr retreated to some hole in the wall south of Houston Street. The black guy made a couple token appearances on CSI. The beefy white guy is totally missing in action.
But Judd Hirsch rises from strength to strength. We first met him on Taxi, when he was already middle aged.
Somehow, he’s still middle aged. What’s up with that?
I started getting vexed with him in Independence Day, the Fourth of July. He played Jeff Goldblum’s father, and I was bothered by the Yiddish accent.
He toned it down in Numb3rs. Flexibility.
Now, with everybody else’s career down the drain, he’s shining once again in Forever. As the son of an immortal played by Ioan Griffud. Life is funny. But so is Judd Hirsch.
P.S. Well, Peter MacNicol goes on forever. That’s a whole different post.
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i get the feeling that he plays himself. So it always rings true.
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Loved Taxi. I was quite young when it was on, but still found it funny. The theme song stirs up all sorts of nostalgic feelings. And Marylou Henner was hot.
Another Judd Hirsch show was Dear John. Short-lived sitcom. Trivia fun-fact: the most memorable character on Dear John was Kirk, played by the same guy who plays gangster Wynn Duffy on Justified.
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