Smoker?
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TeddieDog — 18 years ago(February 24, 2008 06:43 PM)
WHO CARES! Why are there so many questions about whether someone is a smoker or not? Does that make them a bad person? NO IT DOESN'T! I guess it's OK if someone is a serial killer, child molester or if they club baby seals with new born kittens, but if you are a smoker.well then you are an evil criminal!
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DrCarol — 17 years ago(April 12, 2008 03:16 PM)
I think he used to be a smoker (look at his roles in the 1980s and early '90s) and then stopped. Some of his more recent roles seem to reflect his battle with smoking (anyone remember the nicotine patch that he removed from his arm and gave to a strait-jacketed mental patient in the canceled series "Wonderland"?). He gave a young cop an anti-smoking lecture in "The Fast and the Furious," and in some of the "Monk" episodes, he chews mints or toothpicks (cigarette substitutes?). There's a great comic moment when Stottlemeyer flicks Disher's cigarette out of his mouth. It's as if the fight against smoking has become a personal crusade for Ted.
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molly-51 — 17 years ago(July 26, 2008 06:39 PM)
if you look closely in the first episode (or was it the second?) of Monk, you see Stottlemeyer smoking. in the all the subsequent episodes, he is chewing a toothpick. perhaps the toothpick was Levine's personal touch on a character who has quit smoking (as well as a way to deal with it in real life).
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CharlieChanFan — 17 years ago(August 29, 2008 12:04 AM)
Well, Dramatic Miss, it's been 7 months since you first posed the initial question regarding whether or not Ted Levine is a smoker or a non-smoker (or possibly just a former smoker who has dropped the habit). Everything from toothpicks to an Mk 48 Mod 0 7.62 51mm machine gun has been discussed. I am totally suprised that a "smoking gun" theory didn't develop after a lifetime college student introduced us to the Mk 48 Mod 0 7.62 51mm machine gun. I'm also suprised that nobody mentioned anything about "some" lifetime college students enjoying "smokers" of a totally different kind (which have most typically been partaken of at "some" fraternities during rush week). In any event, did you ever get the answer to the question you originally posed?
