Noah Wyle Admits He Was MEAN To Kellie Martin on E.R.

Props to Noah for owning up to being a dickhead.

Funny, I’m watching ER right now. It’s on HULU, but I’m watching the Saturday marathon on POP, and it’s two Saturdays past her character’s death, and Carter’s subsequent drug addiction.

Even in 1999 when I was in HS, I always sensed Noah loathed her by how they interacted on screen. The “love-hate” thing was pushed, but I sensed there was more hate.

And . . .

Why is everything coming out of this dumb cunt's mouth pitched up like she's asking a QUESTION?

Also- People... this hardly ranks as one of Television's Greatest Stories. Hyperbole much?

Never liked either of them.

I lost interest when Sherry Stringfield left just as things were boiling with her and Dr. Green. Sherry has a history of leaving shows at their peak. I will never understand how she just walked away from it and at that particular time right in the middle of the season.

[quote] I lost interest when Sherry Stringfield left just as things were boiling with her and Dr. Green. Sherry has a history of leaving shows at their peak. I will never understand how she just walked away from it and at that particular time right in the middle of the season.

She'll always be Blake Lindsey to me.

She did the exact same thing to Guiding Light and NYPD Blue. Why?

(She was the best and only Blake)

Can you imagine a male actor coming forward to whine that a bigger female star was mean to him? Nothing physical or sexual -- just mean? And anyone caring about it?

[R9] Didn't Bea Arthur say Betty White was a raving bitch to her. You're right-no one cured.

R6 Did you watch when Sherry came back?

for R7

You gotta love this scene; Grant wasn't messing around, he was really lunging at her and Rick had to hold back.

R8, hey!

[R11] Yes but it was a dud. They didn't seem to know what to do with her and it just lost that magic. The original ensemble was pure magic. What did you think?

[R12] Awwww the Blake/Phillip/Beth saga. I've never seen a soap character have it so bad for another like Phillip had for Beth. That is the kind of love every dreams of even though Phillip bordered on insanity at times with his love for her.

[quote] Can you imagine a male actor coming forward to whine that a bigger female star was mean to him? Nothing physical or sexual -- just mean? And anyone caring about it?

Actually, Martin didn't really say anything about Wyle being mean, he admitted it.

R14 Completely agree. The show was already sliding by the time Sherry returned. Lewis had Greene were IT in the beginning, and they barely interacted when she returned. Instead, they made a dreadful plot of her and Carter getting together. Then Greene died. I stopped watching not long after, until returning for some episodes in the final season which were not bad for the 90s fans of the show wanting to see past characters.

I hated her on ER.

I never saw the show.

[quote] The show was already sliding by the time Sherry returned. Lewis had Greene were IT in the beginning, and they barely interacted when she returned.

In fairness the year she returned, was the same year Anthony Edwards (Greene) announced he was leaving. So there was little sense to attach Lewis to Greene. They needed Lewis to interact with other characters. And it is not like Lewis & Greene didn't have any scenes together, as Lewis had to help Greene during his brain tumor story-arc, when Mark & Elizabeth separated.

Now about Sherry Stringfield, she was hired on Guiding Light while she was still studying at SUNY Purchase. The casting directing saw her at a school workshop and was just blown away by the talent. She went to the producers and said they had to hire her, if there was no role coming up for someone in her age bracket, then create a character. She said Sherry was that good.

[quote]In fairness the year she returned, was the same year Anthony Edwards (Greene) announced he was leaving.

Why do these actors leave these hit shows never to be heard from again? I bet NOW they both wished they stuck it up a few years longer to bank all that money.

R21 actually both made MILLIONS resigning, so both don't have to worry about money. In Anthony Edwards case he was commuting from NY to LA to do the series and after 8 years, he had enough of the grind

How do you make millions resigning? They pay you to leave?

re-SIGNING

[R20] That casting director worked for both Guiding Light and As The World Turns. The talent she scored for those shows have gone on to win Oscars, Emmys, Tonys and fill TV and movie screens. Both shows produced so many stars, GL more so it seems. They knew if Betty Rea said someone was good, they were good!

[quote]Sherry has a history of leaving shows at their peak.

Which pissed off a LOT of people!

"You're leaving NOW? Can you wait at least a couple of years? Lots of people are getting PAID, you selfish bitch!"

R20 Very true. Greene was married with a new baby, an unruly teen, and a cancer recurrence of cancer, so I wouldn’t habe expected much with Lewis. It just felt off though, when they had been so close before. She helped out when Corday left him for a while, but pushing the ridiculous Carter/Lewis storyline didn’t work at all. The show was shifting anyway with the equally dull Abby/Luka/Carter triangle at the exact same time.

Ugh.

[R26] She's given weak answers before but she, while talented, was also very lucky. She was on a resurgent Guiding Light which was bouncing around #2-#4 in the ratings. Her character was at the peak of a hot storyline then suddenly, "The role of Blake Spaulding is now being played by some lesser...."

She gets NYPD Blue. Hottest show on air. Nope- Sherry bounces from that after one year

She lands ER. Now the hottest show on air. Only gets hotter with each year. Year 3, smack in the middle of a hot storyline EVERYONE is interested in, she bolts MIDSEASON!

Like, WHAT????? Unheard of in Hollywood. I wonder if the guy she was dating was controlling or something. From what I read, Hollywood had little to say because everyone was picking their jaws off the floor for years.

The only one who thinks she is completely overrrated with her monotone voice and blank expressions?

Am I?

Her best line on GL:

“Nothin’ says lovin’ like a Spaulding in the oven.”

R29 She did have a monotone voice but she could act. She was so acclaimed despite that voice.

R24, when did Edwards re-sign for ER? After he died? And it doesn’t matter is Sherry got millions for re-signing. It still is less than what she would have made if she never left.

She deserved it for her lack of an upper lip.

What a great little scene R12 sending me down memory lane to the glory days of GL. Wish there was someplace to watch those old eps in order. Hulu needs to get on that

When her character returned, she went on a bender in Las Vegas and married that guy, an EMT, a cop? It was pretty funny.

Kellie Martin's character was a complete bore. They didn't kill her off fast enough.

I think this is where John McEnroe comes in and says "you cannot be serious".

Back in 1995, a gay magazine did a review of a fairly recent porn tape. It was like an audition tape. There were two guys 69-ing each other while a third man watched them and stroked himself.

In the review, the magazine said that "everyone in Hollywood" knew that this third man was a dark-haired actor who made this tape a few years prior before he got his recent breakthrough role on one of "NBC's biggest primetime dramas." Meaning then-current in 1995.

... I'm pretty sure they were hinting it was Noah Wyle. E.R. started in the Fall of 1994.

My partner and I rented the tape but were never quite sure. It never really shows his face well. The guy was wearing an unbuttoned blue button-down shirt and nothing else. He had dark brown hair, nice-sized nose, and a very large cock. Again, the hair got in his face a bit and his face was never focused on much.

Anyone else ever heard of that?

Never, really I haven't ever.

[quote] when did Edwards re-sign for ER? After he died? And it doesn’t matter is Sherry got millions for re-signing. It still is less than what she would have made if she never left.

He was on the show show for eight years. When his five year contract expired he re-upped for 3 additional years with a huge pay raise were he raked in MILLIONS per episode. When that 3 contract was up, he left because he had more than enough in the bank as his next egg

Noah's cuteness was the one reason I still tuned in after the first few seasons. I have to admit he isn't aging gracefully, but thanks for the hot memories, Carter. Kellie is really boring!

Noah Wyle has a great nose

[quote]He was on the show show for eight years. When his five year contract expired he re-upped for 3 additional years with a huge pay raise were he raked in MILLIONS per episode.

He did not make millions per episode. Friends cast was in the news for groundbreaking $1 million per episode. Was a big deal when Big Bang Theory cast got $1 million an episode. And yet Edwards, part of a cast of 15, got millions per episode 20+ years ago? Yeah, right.

R43 he made 500K per episode x by 22 episodes and that is $11 million a year. x by 3 years that is a $33 million dollar contract.

I thought I read that ER did everything to try to keep Stringfield since the Greene/Lewis story was popular with viewers. What did she think was waiting for her? She must have known that one of the major reasons her character was so popular was because of her chemistry with Edwards.

I find it strange that David Caruso gets so much flack (and is the butt of jokes) when people discuss actors leaving popular TV shows. I thought Stringfield was far more stupid because it was the biggest show at the time and she could have gone on to make millions plus all those residuals. Clooney and Margulies went on to more success but SS has done nothing. She got a role in 54 after she left the first time and she was in it for barely three minutes.

R45 at the time she said she left to be with her boyfriend who lived in another city.

With Sherry she had the money in the bank, Not the tens of millions, but a good chunk. She went from 3 years on Guiding Light, right into NYPD Blue, then 2.5 years of ER. I really think she just wanted some down time, because she was working non-stop since graduating SUNY Purchase

fun fact, she is god-mother to one of late Michael Zaslow children.

R45 isn’t Caruso different because he quit thinking he could make it in movies? Stringfield left essentially saying she wanted a break and that’s what she did, so there’s less to mock. Caruso also had a bad reputation in terms of how he treated people back then; a better rep now as I understand it.

R38 I REALLY need to see that tape.

R38 Never heard about Noah in an audition porn tape, but I think College Boy Physicals' Dr. Toppinbottom looks kind of like Noah in his E.R. scrubs , even though it's, sadly, not really him

[quote]I thought I read that ER did everything to try to keep Stringfield since the Greene/Lewis story was popular with viewers. What did she think was waiting for her?

Her boyfriend’s cock.

r48 fair enough, but Caruso did make some movies (flops like Jade). But I never truly bought Stringfield's reason, personally. It just seemed odd to leave the #1 show where you were nominated for Emmys each season. Maybe she had a hard time with success but it was odd to me.

I never bought Stringfield’s reason either, and assumed the cause was stress, depression or anxiety. That said, she could be one of those actors who is quite talented but has to be really invested in what she’s doing to show up every day and sees no point putting herself through long filming schedules when it’s not what she really wants.

Hilarious how this thread relegates KM, its own star, to a recurring role.

Who is KM?

So true r54. It somehow became about Sherry Stringfield and Anthony Andrews.

I vaguely remember Kellie on ER. Noah / Carter, on the other well-lubed hand....

God I had completely forgotten this thread was at least in part about Kellie Martin.

R57 Anthony Andrews: "E.R. Revisited: The Oxford Years"

I don’t even remember Kellie Martin on ER, but I did watch Life Goes On, in which she was annoying but cute. But Chad Lowe was just gorgeous in those days, playing an HIV+ teen. Whose ex-gf had someone given him the disease though it was never explained that well.

I thought at the time the Lucy Knight character was not popular with viewers, and that’s one reason they wrote her out. By far the most memorable thing Lucy did was die. That was a great if terrifying reveal scene where Carter hits the floor and we see through his eyes that Lucy has already been stabbed.

But they skipped over Lucy’s loss pretty quickly, I wondered if she had annoyed somebody behind the scenes to get that kind of demise and dismissal.

R60, Kellie Martin and Chad Lowe have been reunited in a Hallmark Channel movie.

The scene in ER was breathtaking and well done. The mental patient steps out from the shadows, stabs Carter, he falls down beside a bed, and his eyes catch Lucy bleeding on the floor on the other side of the bed.

Noah Wyle was so cute in the 90s. God, I would've been all over that.

I wonder if Clooney tried to hit it. And if he might've succeeded.

R60 God I loved Chad in “Life Goes On.” One of my first crushes was his brother, and then in the early 90s, it was Chad. I’d even watch shitty made for tv films just to see him. Watching tv in the “rec room” in the basement came in handy so no one would know. (Among other things!)

I haven’t seen LGO probably since reruns in 97 (FX), but Chad’s character was supposed to have gotten infected from a brief girlfriend. Very early 90s. He won an emmy and then ended up doing such small things, including areoccuring role on ER.

Speaking of which, I was very into Noah Wyle too. Never Clooney.

Ugh, Kellie Martin. Talk about a monotone and one-note actress.

Loved Noah. George was a little too much the trademarked heartthrob-stud. Noah was a dreamy sweetheart.

R60 wasn’t he just dreamy? I did love the pretty boys when I was a preteen. I never understood why his career didn’t take off because he played that role so well, sensitive and emotional.

I always thought he and Swank were bearding for each other but he married another woman.

[quote] I find it strange that David Caruso gets so much flack (and is the butt of jokes) when people discuss actors leaving popular TV shows. I thought Stringfield was far more stupid because it was the biggest show at the time and she could have gone on to make millions plus all those residuals.

The big difference was that Caruso only did NYPD Blue one year, and then thought he could go on to be a much bigger star, when no one else thought that (and it indeed turned out not to be true); Stringfield did E/R for several years. Also, he and Dennis Franz completely dominated their show the way Stringfield did not--it was clear when Stringfield left that her show could survive her, but it was not clear when Caruso left that NYPD could.

Caruso is like Jeremy Renner and Kevin Spacey, in that since he got a lot of good press for his acting he mistakenly assumed he could become a sex symbol, and of course he (like them) is far too ordinary looking to become a sex symbol.

Couldn't you have just fucked the living daylights out of him?

KM co-wrote a book and it’s wretched.

R15, Phillip had it for Beth the way that Alan had it for Phillip (not in a sexual way - just in that overpowering love way; it's not always healthy).

[R71] YES! Guiding Light had those intense, sometimes not what you would expect relationships.

GL is the longest running soap and it had the most diverse list of head writers: Irna, Bill Bell, Agnes Nixon, the Dobsons, Doug Marland, Pam Long, James Reilly was co=head for a while...Megan had some good moments.

of course, it also had the Santos mob family, San Cristobel and clone Reva. God awful stuff.

Here's a moment featuring DIane Ballard talking about her dad. Tragic.

Go to 33:50

Lmao

Sherry didn't choose to leave NYPD Blue. She got let go when Caruso left because she played his ex wife and they didn't need her character without him. Caruso was jellous of the attention Franz was getting. He threw a chair on set. He was a raging asshole. Sherry just asked to be written out. I remember it being reported that she wasn't permitted to work during the time ER was being filmed because she broke her contract. She was apparently fine with that. I do remember someone (Dennis Miller Maybe) making fun of her for following the Shelly Long/David Caruso career path.

I thought I read Sherry asked to leave because they didn't seem to know what to do with her character. David didn't leave NYPD Blue until a few episodes into the 2nd season because he didn't get a pay raise the thought he deserved. So Sherry left before knowing this would happen.

Back when I was in school in the mid-to-late 90s, I flew from L.A.. to Chicago. When we boarded, we walked through first class. I see a guy with the biggest, ugliest nose. To this day, I remember thinking, “If he didn’t have that shnozz, he’d be a dead ringer for Noah Wylie.” Then two seats behind him, I see Peter Benton, clear as day. Sitting next to him was Gloria Rubin. She was beautiful, just shy of breathtakingly beautiful.

Once we got arrived and deplaned, the three of them, and some crew members, hung out together by the baggage carousel. I was struck by how much Eric LaSalle looked just like Benton, how the camera did not do justice to Gloria Rubin, and what a pathetically geeky dweeb Noah Wylie was. All limbs and nose and couldn’t have weighed more than 130 pounds.

That summer, some girl I was clerking with went on and on about how she thought he was cute. She didn’t appreciate it when I said that if he wasn’t famous and if he had tried to pick her up at a bar that there was zero chance he’d leave with her real phone number. I don’t know how the make up people managed to make his nose just look just a little off. They deserved emmys for making him look remotely fuckable.

Exactly R76 Sherry LEFT NYPD Blue. Her character was going nowhere and she got permission from Bochco to do the E.R. pilot while she was still under contract to NYPD Blue - When E.R. got picked up to series, Sherry left. David Caruso was still expected for year two of NYPD Blue.

Who cares about Sherry Stringfield?

Goran Visnjic is worth discussing. He's the reason I watched ER.

Sherry is incredibly smart and her instincts were spot on. She left GL when the NYPD Blue opportunity presented itself. She left that show when she saw things weren't going so well with her character. But leaving ER was just NUTS. I really wonder what would have happened had she stayed. Her character was so popular, she was popular, her and Green were popular, she was getting Emmy and Golden Globe nods every year. Why, Sherry, Why?

David Caruso eventually went on to 10 highly paid seasons of CSI Miami. He still gets lots of residuals from that.

Despite his failed sex symbol movie career, Caruso made a TV comeback which set him for life.

Sherry Springfield played some guy’s MOM on The Dome a few years ago - with some hideous old man as her husband.

Interesting story r77. I guess Wyle is one of those people who the camera and good lighting does wonders for.

r80 exactly it was a dumb decision. It was the best gig she ever got. If she had just stayed for five seasons, she would have been fine.

I remember once hearing Noah Wyle was the inspiration for the gay bashed lover in the movie URBANIA (who ends up murdered). He had been involved with the movie's writer years before. True or not I have no idea.

Wasn't there a thread recently in which someone posted a link to Sherry Springfield gossip about why she left ER - and it had something to do with a fellow cast member making her life a living hell. Which we all decided must have been Noah Wyle? Still thought he was hot, though. Not much of a body, but loved the face, nose and all.

I think Sherry has said she was exhausted after going from GL (where the production is extremely intense and she was front burner every day) to NYPD Blue to ER. I think she just reached her breaking point. Sad she couldn't just ask for some time off.

I don't know how a nobody like Noah could make her life a living hell. Sherry's tough. I think it was that she worked tirelessly for 6-7 years nonstop.

[quote]Goran Visnjic is worth discussing. He's the reason I watched ER.

He's one of the reasons I stopped. That voice. Ack.

When you are on an hour long drama series, it is not a 9 to 5 job. It is 12 hour days - 8 days a week. Even if you are not on the set, you are still on call. They might call you in at the last minute if a scene needs to be reshot, or the schedule gets changed.

As a result you have no life, I really think Sherry just wanted a break.

But it's not like they shoot these shows 12 months out of the year. They get breaks that last for several months. For that kind of money, I think I'd be able to put up with it.

Again, I think it her boyfriend at the time who seemed to have some hand it her decision and her nonstop working for 6-7 years. GL wore her out.

I can't stand when I hear actors complain about the grind of a series. They are paid millions, get the summers off and usually have a week long break every couple of months. Most poor schmucks reading their interviews make 35k a year with 2 weeks' vacation.

[quote] I can't stand when I hear actors complain about the grind of a series.

But Sherry didn't complain. She just woke up one morning and said "Time for me to go" She never badmouthed ER and the working conditions.

R92 True but when you're exhausted, you're exhausted. She could afford to quit and did. She didn't complain-she left.

Since everyone is obsessed with the reason Sherry left, copying an pasting here Sherry only exit interview with Entertainment Weekly back in 1997 about why she left

It's one week after the death of Princess Diana, and that's the first subject that comes up when Sherry Stringfield arrives for lunch at an outdoor cafe in New York's Greenwich Village. "I got so many messages on my machine the day after she died," says Stringfield, 30, who stunned Hollywood when she quit her plum (and twice Emmy-nominated) role as Dr. Susan Lewis on ER last year to return to New York and spend more time with her boyfriend. "All these people called and it was like they finally got it. They understood why I left. It wasn't just about a guy. My priest back in Texas called and said, 'You've been on my mind all day.' You know, people can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be."

Stringfield is no princess--she dives into her pasta with gusto, wisecracking, dishing, rolling her eyes--but she's led a fairy-tale life as an actress. She's landed (and then walked away from) not one, not two, but three high-profile--though ultimately unfulfilling--acting gigs, starting with a leading role on the CBS soap Guiding Light, which she nabbed just one week after graduating from college in 1989. She ditched the soap in 1992 to travel in Europe. When she returned to the States in 1993, she nailed her first prime-time TV audition: a part on NYPD Blue. She left Blue after one season because she felt her character--David Caruso's bitter ex-wife--had run its course. ("I loved David, though," she says. "He was so protective of me!") But it was when she left ER in November 1996--after less than two years--that people officially decided Stringfield was...well, nuts. Leave the hottest show on TV for some investment banker in New York? You couldn't help but think that perhaps Stringfield belonged in a far more padded part of the hospital than the emergency room. It was a little scary," says Stringfield of her decision to leave ER and move back to New York, where she's now teaching acting at her alma mater, Purchase College, SUNY, and doing commercial voice-overs. "People I knew really well were taking my arm and looking deep in my eyes with the whole tilted-head thing, you know, saying 'We're worried about you.' Puh-leeze. It's like when you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them."

And, as Stringfield discovered, they have no qualms about dissing back. A few months ago, when it got out that she and her boyfriend, Odell Lambroza, had broken up, a friend called from L.A. "She tells me, 'You and Andrew Cunanan were the two top stories on the news tonight.'" Stringfield throws her head back and laughs. "That's pretty much how Los Angeles views me--I'm on a par with serial killers."

David Milch, the executive producer of NYPD Blue who hired Stringfield--and then graciously released her in 1994 when she asked to leave--agrees that Stringfield's departure hit Hollywood where it lives. "Everyone has to deal in to this work-obsessed environment," he says. "If you don't, people don't like it. Sherry's situation reminds me of the tulip craze in Holland in the 17th century. There was this collective decision that tulips were the greatest thing in the world. Sherry is like someone who says, 'They're just tulips,' and it p---es people off."

I don’t see the issue with what Sherry did. I am a lawyer and I doubt she worked any more hours than I do, but I’m near burnt-out at this point... she appears to have just quit without making enemies on her way out (and so was able to go back a few years later), and not because she thought she deserved more money or could make it in the movies, but because she just plain didn’t want to do it. We can all call that decision stupid, and not sure I would have done the same, but she’s best-placed to make her own choices and doesn’t seem to have left expecting anything other than the time off she got.

Thank you for the real life celebrity spotting story above. It’s amazing how different people look on and off TV.

Stringfield definitely ticked off one of her bosses at ER--namely, executive producer John Wells, who declined to comment for this article. But Steven Spielberg, who helped develop the show, was "amazingly understanding," even though Stringfield, an integral part of ER's ensemble cast, bailed just as Dr. Lewis got embroiled in a budding romance with Anthony Edwards' Dr. Green. "I wouldn't describe the situation as pleasant," she says. "[The producers] were in shock. They tried to talk me out of it. It took a long time to get out of my contract."

Exactly why she wanted to get out has been widely misunderstood, according to Stringfield. "At first the producers thought I was negotiating for more money or pulling like David [Caruso] s---. It took them a while to realize it was about having a full-bodied life and getting out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave. I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."

Which is not to say that Stringfield didn't cherish the part of Susan Lewis. "I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying." Less agreeable, however, was ER's punishing schedule. Stringfield says she routinely worked 18-hour days, suffered from sleep deprivation, and contracted both viral meningitis and pneumonia. "You get a cold, they won't let you off for a cold, then you get the flu, then you're running a fever, you're still coming in, you're taking a nap on the gurneys in between scenes, you push, push, push, and finally your body says no f---ing way."

Stringfield says that on occasion, ER cast members worked even when they were seriously ill and dehydrated. "There were a couple of episodes where people did scenes with IVs in their arms," Stringfield says, though she won't name names. "They'd have the bag inside their lab coat. One time I opened someone's trailer and the person was sitting there with an IV. It was scary." A source close to ER disputed some of Stringfield's claims, saying no one on the show ever works 18 hours a day and added that Stringfield had the lightest workload of any cast member except Gloria Reuben. "Sherry rarely put in a 40-hour work week," says the source, who did confirm, however, that at least one actor, Noah Wyle, was hooked up to an IV once on the set because he had a "really bad cold."

Even when Stringfield wasn't sick, she was stressed. "I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills," she says, laughing. "It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights." Stringfield wasn't given a goodbye party after she finished her final ER scenes last November, but says she misses the cast and is still close to Anthony Edwards and George Clooney. Edwards, however, declined to comment about Stringfield, and Clooney failed to return phone calls. She doesn't want to talk about the demise of her two-year relationship with Lambroza but says slyly that "contrary to reports that I was devastated and had given up my career for him, we're still friends and I'm incredibly happy to be doing my own thing in New York."

And considering she just snagged a leading role in her first feature film--a Miramax drama called 54, costarring Mike Myers and Salma Hayek--it appears that Stringfield continues to do her own thing quite successfully, thank you. "I had to have a 100 percent belief in myself to leave ER," she says. "I had to be my own champion. But I still don't know why it all has to be so strange to people." She bangs her glass of diet Coke on the table in mock frustration. "Why does anybody want to be famous?" she wonders. "You know what's important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy?"

article at R95 concludes at R97

and when Sherry came back to ER she said

Stringfield, who also left "NYPD Blue" after being on the show for one season, was often approached by fans wanting to know why she left "ER." Sometimes as many as a hundred a week.

"It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life. They said I was crazy," she says of the fans' reactions. "I didn't exactly see, being an actress, what the big deal is. I understand that it can appear to be a very coveted position. I think people thought, 'Gosh, was there something really bad about it?' I came to understand that they didn't have a full understanding, perhaps, of an actor's life, and that you have a million jobs and we're actually pretty used to it. It's very rare to have a job that lasts more than a year or two."

What a thrilling thread. Jesus Christ, who the fuck cares?

Well, she said pretty much what many have said on this thread. It shook Hollywood big time. But good for her to do her own thing. They let her come back so there was anger, but no bad blood.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

R102 better than talking about Kellie Martin!

Poor Kellie Martin, no-one gives a fuck about her in her own thread.

My favourite Kellie Martin role is that true crime movie where she stabs Tori Spelling’s character to death.

this thread about Kellie became a 'I loved Sherry as Blake' thread.

[quote]My favourite Kellie Martin role is that true crime movie where she stabs Tori Spelling’s character to death.

“A Friend to Die For AKA “Death of a Cheerleader”! I also enjoyed the movie where she gets coked out for half the film with her boyfriend, played by Jonathan Brandis. Then she’s accused of murdering him.

Goran Visnjic was hot. I didn’t mind him replacing Clooney (or his accent).

I never really liked ER. The only one I wanted to fuck in the original crew was Noah Wyle. Later there'd be Shane West and Julian Morris, but mostly I wasn't that interested in the show.

[quote]My favourite Kellie Martin role is that true crime movie where she stabs Tori Spelling’s character to death.

I loved that as well!

Barry Diller once said that Noah Wylie gave pretty good head for a jew. Probably because his mother was a protestant. Jew monsters like Barry Diller and Harvey Weinstein like to force their cocks inside half-jews, they're slightly more attractive because the human DNA balances out the mongrel Jew DNA. You still have to fuck them young because by 40 even half-jews look like Fyvush Finkel.

Yes Sherry as Blake was everything!

I bet Noah could throw a good fuck. Is he gay? Never saw the attraction to Clooney. At all. Shane West seemed fuckable.

The only fuckable doctors on that show were Goran Visjnic (sp?) and Erik Palladino.

This thread is fascinating for such a ridiculous topic. It's morphed into something I don't think the OP imagined. Noah Wylie as a hot stud folks want to get down with? Man, I never felt that way about him and his two TNT programs have not made him any hotter over the years.

God he was awful when The Librarians became a weekly show. How Rebecca Romjin played love scenes with him is beyond me. She could break him in half in real life.

And that hallmark Mystery show Kellie martin stars in? Lord does it stink. She's so bland and boring. i don't understand whey she's allowed to flat foot her way through so many episodes. She's not a bad actress, fine for TV, but she'll put you to sleep in the first fifteen minutes.

This thread has turned into something oddly fascinating. The way it morphed and became a hot topic about Sherry leaving various shows and such. This thread is life! I bet people come in here after reading the title and seeing so many replies and think some shit must've went down with Noah and Kellie only to read about Sherry's mysterious and habitual leaving of hit shows!

[quote]The only fuckable doctors on that show were Goran Višnjić (sp?) and Erik Palladino.

Two of my least favorite actors of all time. Only Ben Affleck and Jon Seda are less appealing.

I thought Noah was adorable in the three ‘The Librarian’ movies!

Noah's dorkiness and his lithe body are what is hot. He adorbs! I want that cock now!

I saw Noah in a 2017 film that was on cable recently (called Shot) and I thought he looked fine (particularly when he had a beard)

I’m sitting at home,and ER is on POP network. Right this second is the scene where Kelly Martin and Noah Wyle are hooking up… only for him to pull the plug.

Two people could not have less chemistry. So glad they killed off her character. As if a hottie like Carter would go for the pudgy, duck-walking Lucy.

I remember being a teen when Noah Wyle’s character was exposed to chemicals in an episode of ER, and he had to disrobe outside and get hosed off. Him in nothing but boxers and soaking wet… so hot. Still love tall guys with that lean build and the perfect amount of chest hair.

The working conditions on ER were brutal. Because of the way they shot it — very cinematic, with continuous tracking shots and much of the ER on view in many of the scenes — days were often 18 hours or more, with actors on gurneys between takes.

I've never paid attention to Kellie Martin. Isn't she one of those "wholesome" Christian actresses, like that fatassed Cameron whatever girl from Full House?

R122 she is from Life Goes On and is very pro gay

Was Life Goes On the one with the retard and that cunt nobody likes?

Lucy (Martin) makes a last desperate attempt to woo Carter in this episode: We sound like my grandparents. Been married 50 years. They’re still having great sex, by the way.

Ughh! There are no words. Just kill her off already!

Okay, I’m out.

He can be mean to me if he wants. For an hour or two. With our clothes off.

I got to play an extra on ER circa 2003.

They put me in a hospital gown -- thank God the wrap around kind not the open back kind -- and made me up to look like I got hit b a truck. I went out onto the Warner Bros. lot during lunch and got the oddest looks from people. I thought oh, c'mon; we're on a studio lot! then I grabbed a look in the mirror; the makeup job was amazing.

This was before selfies and my little phone didn't have a camera on it. That stuff is frowned on anyway so storylines don't get spoiled

I was mostly planted in a wheelchair in the center of the action, but got no screen time; dman Goran's massive shoulders! They were blocking me!

It was fun. Non union rates back then, even with overtime, aren't enough to live on though. Still, I loved it.

R127 was the ER set in just in one big warehouse? Is like how we see it on TV?

R128, the big emergency room that you see in most episodes was the set I worked in; it was in a studio on the Warner Bros. lot; ironically, it was close to Clooney's production office. I think I saw his parking spot?

This was a long time ago, 15 years. It was an exhausting day. Call time, I think, was 5 or 5:30 a.m. and I worked into the evening.

Tell me some ER gossip. Who slept with whom behind the scenes?

Never watched this show. It was too soapy. Couldn't be bothered. That and Desperate Housewives, another upgraded soap.

Noah Wyle is not ageing well at all, though he was cute then. The guy's only 47... Could he have saved a good 5 or 7 years off his real age? Anyway, "boyish charm" never ages well.

Who is this Stringfield character even? Sherry, of all names... Is this a soap thread???? I fear it is. What am I doing here?????

R22 Edwards has worked pretty steady. His wife is Jeanine Lobell who founded Stila cosmetics.

Yeah I've heard shit. He asked her where she went to college, and she said Yale, and he was like "Oh yeah, I could have gone there but" [something like it's boring or something].

He's a fucking asshole.

Noah Wyle was in a relationship with the guy who had a recurring role as the mean, bald surgeon in later seasons. (Not Romano/Paul McCrane) I'd Google it but I'm too lazy. He was in those Fruit of the Loom underwear commercials.

Stanley Tucci

Sad face had an affair with him jeopardizing her marriage to Luca.

Noah Wyle was the inspiration for the Matt Keeslar character in URBANIA.

She was really annoying.

R131 Comparing ER to Desperate Housewives! How dare thee!

Grey’s Anatomy, now that is a good comparison. It even debuted after DH and ran after it until it became so successful, it switched nights.

[quote] She bangs her glass of diet Coke on the table in mock frustration. "Why does anybody want to be famous?" she wonders. "You know what's important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy?"

When Sherry returned to the show in Season 8, she had obviously been ingesting more pasta than Diet Coke in the interim. She also came back with one of the worst haircuts in TV history. After her first year back she was on air less and less as the series basically became “The Maura Tierney Show”. Sherri kept gaining weight each year and ironically it wasn’t until she had another baby that she got her weight under control again. During her last season she looked more like the Susan Lewis of Seasons 1-3. Then she abruptly quit again.

Noah was great in all of the seasons up until the one where KM joined the show. He was able to balance the drama and comedy of being the perennial underdog extremely well. Once KM joined and his role switched to being a mentor he started becoming unlikable.

R130, the only one 'sleeping' was me! I dozed off after I got moved to a gurney; fortunately, I didn't snore; an a.d. nudged me awake shortly before we wrapped.

I can only imagine what it must be like to make the big bucks on a show like that; come in before dawn and leave after dark, 2 to 4 days a week, make the magic 8 to 10 months out of the year, and have a nice vacation in between seasons; and live off the residuals.

I'd have bought a two bedroom condo in a nice part of LA, invested the rest; taken modest trips; drive a modest but reliable car.

Instead, as an extra, you get close to it but you're so far.

[quote]Noah Wyle was the inspiration for the Matt Keeslar character in URBANIA.

????

He was in a relationship years before with the writer of the film.

Noah Wyle is gay?

Once upon a time in Hollywood he certainly more than dabbled.

ER was great until Season 5, which is the season Kellie joined the show. It wasn’t all her fault as the quality of the writing dipped considerably. Noah Wyle had surprisingly great chemistry with part-time lesbian Maria Bello the season before...the same could not be said about his chemistry with KM.

The show remained watchable but then they added too many one note characters (Eric Palladino, Goren Whozzits, Michael Michelle who couldn’t act + the return of Ming Na which nobody asked for).

The new ER people I liked: Neela and Ray

NBC really tried to make a star out of aussie David Lyons starting with ER (he joined in the last two seasons). After ER he starred in three series for the network including “The Cape”.

r150 ISHC

“The Red Line”, a CBS drama with Noah Wyle playing a gay school teacher, is set to premiere mid-season.

[quote]That casting director worked for both Guiding Light and As The World Turns. The talent she scored for those shows have gone on to win Oscars, Emmys, Tonys and fill TV and movie screens. Both shows produced so many stars, GL more so it seems. They knew if Betty Rea said someone was good, they were good!

I remember reading an article many years ago where Meg Ryan praised Betty for helping her out early on when she did soaps. Betty would help out newbies starting out if the were short on money.

I just watched "Crooked Hearts" from 1991, with Noah at his cutest in a supporting role. It's a terrible movie, like a John Irving cute-but-sad dysfunctional family rip-off, but I did end up crying.

Because of the Lucy murder episode, to this day I cringe whenever I see a knife at work. They really did a great job showing them cut the Valentines Day cake, set down the knife for a second then show that it had disappeared. Totally creeps me out all the time.

When that originally aired, there were spoilers leaked online so it didn’t have quite the shock value it would have otherwise. I remember watching that episode and thinking to myself “maybe it’s not going to happen?” - but then the last two minutes 😮

The thing is, I couldn’t stand the Lucy character- but I felt horrible as they tried in vain to save her.

Paging Dr Carter to my bedroom.

Noah Wyle was the lover of the writer of the play and film URBANIA. He was the real-life character played by Matt Keeslar. So he was gay way back when.

When Dad is away, I AM THE MAN!

House Hunters International recently had an episode with a gay couple searching for an apartment in Madrid. One of the guys was a dead ringer for Noah.

Who is Noah dating now? He's married to a woman, isn't he? Always freaked me out how much he abs his first wife looked like twins. Maybe that was the only way he could get it up for a woman.

Goran Visnwhatsit is still with his wife who resembles the Muppet with the big lips. Her father, a Croat war criminal, gave him his career, so he'll never leave her, but he fucks around all the time. Really thought he would dump her for Maura Tierney, but she got tired of his crap.

The cast during the final seasons are still friends and had a recent mini-reunion at John Stamos’ house. I doubt the original cast have much to do with one another now.

Goran looks bad with the overdyed hair

I think of the original cast, only Wyle and Eriq La Salle are still tight. Eriq La Salle posted a video on Instagram of being at Wyle’s (youngest) daughter’s birthday party.

Eriq La Salle was always so dull on screen

Carter and Benton should have ended up together on the finale.