I Was Going To Be The Hero

At Home In L.a., Sunday Is Lazy. It's The Wife And Me Lying In Bed With Coffee, Watching 'the Soup' Or Something Funny On Tivo. The Kid Will Occasionally Join Us. Eventually, Breakfast Is At A Place Down The Street Called Paty's. And We Always Have Some Kind Of Great Dinner - My Wife Makes A Great Roast Beef.

I Had Run Into Kari Lizer At An Airport, I Think, And She Said, "would You Come On The Show [ The New Adventures Of Old Christine]?" And I Said, "god. Absolutely."

When We Started The Show [lonesome Dove], Suzanne De Passe - Who Had Done The Original Miniseries And Still Owned The Property And Was Turning It Into This Series - She Brought In A Lot Of Old Friends - Diahann Carroll And Billy Dee Williams And Dennis Weaver. And We Had An Interesting Collection Off The Top Of These Old Seasoned Actors. Billy Dee Was Lovely And Iconic.

I Think They [tv Productions] Were Just Kind Of Drying Up. I'd Done A Couple Of Episodes, But Nothing Was Happening. So I Went To Vancouver To Visit A Buddy And See What Was Going On, And That Year Was Crazy. Vancouver Was On Fire At That Point. It Was All These Stephen J. Cannell Productions - The Commish Being One Of Them - And In One I Was A Bartender, And I Think I Had Five Lines.

[the Lost World] Was A Learning Experience. I Remember We Were Shooting A Scene In Which I Dive Out Of A Boat Into A River To Save The Kid That's In The Movie. And There's No Mention Of A Stuntman, And I Was Like, "no, I'll Go In." Nobody Questioned. I Never Asked If Maybe There Was Malaria In The Water. And I Was Wearing These Tall Boots.