http://tvline.com/2016/08/18/david-caruso-nypd-blue-exit-controversy-steven-bochco-memoir/
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TMC-4 — 9 years ago(August 18, 2016 12:17 PM)
http://tvline.com/2016/08/18/david-caruso-nypd-blue-exit-controversy-steven-bochco-memoir/
by Michael Ausiello
August 18, 2016
Hey, Steven Bochco, tell us how you really feel about David Caruso!
In the berproducers new memoir, Truth Is a Total Defense, the "NYPD Blue" co-creator chronicles the events that led up to the controversial departure of Caruso in Season 2. And it aint pretty.
By the end of the cop dramas breakout first season, David Caruso
had become impossible
, Bocho writes in the book.
Carusos behavior was, simply put, cancerous. He was emotionally unavailable to everyone, and he was volatile, moody or sullen, depending on the day. Most people dont function well in a dysfunctional environment, but Caruso loved it because he was the source of all the discontent, and it empowered him.
He never said it to me directly, but the simple truth was, Caruso felt he was too good for television. He wanted to be a movie star. And his plan was to alienate the writers, producers and his fellow cast-mates in hopes that we would dump him from the show.
When that didnt happen, Caruso asked to be let out of his contract unless certain demands were met, Bochco alleges.
Among them: A raise from $40K to $100K an episode, as well as Fridays off a 38-foot trailer. an office suite on the lot, replete with his own development executive, for whom we had to foot the bill to the tune of $1,000 a week two hotel suites in New York when the company went there on location, plus a dozen first-class plane tickets and additional security to shield him from his adoring public.
In the end, Caruso was written out of "NYPD Blue" four episodes into Season 2. Jimmy Smits, meanwhile, was brought in to replace him and, as Bocho states, ended up making the series even greater.
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fiero-49251 — 9 years ago(September 03, 2016 09:05 PM)
I heard he about cause writer Bill Clark to have a heart attack, wanted out to make bad movies like "Jade," and be more part time if he stayed! I was so glad he floundered before
"CSI: Miami"
came along! I only remembered him as an Irish Gang leader in
"Hill Street Blues"
and a bit part in
"Thief Of Hearts!"
How he thought he was so deserving is impossible to comprehend!http://www.childrenofrassilon.com/fiero425.html
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nigelbenn08 — 9 years ago(October 12, 2016 01:38 PM)
David Caruso caused David Milch to nearly have a heart attack, not Bill Clark. Clark is a police detective who was brought on board to pitch ideas to Milch and Steven Bochco, to give NYPD Blue a realistic feel. Bill Clark had to take Milch to the hospital after Milch and Caruso had an argument over his lines in the script. Caruso wouldn't read the line on the script and wanted it to be rewritten. Milch wouldn't budge.
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fiero-49251 — 9 years ago(October 12, 2016 02:40 PM)
Thank you! I'm old; memory isn't what it used to be! I knew Caruso almost ruined his career with a few bad offerings in TV and movies before
"CSI: Miami!"http://www.childrenofrassilon.com/fiero425.html
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fiero-49251 — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 03:35 PM)
Seen it recently! I didn't mean to go back that far; just after
"NYPD Blue"
& before
"CSI: Miami!"
I still surf by
"H & I"
to catch those old shows!http://www.childrenofrassilon.com/fiero425.html
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