Lets have a nice little Northern Exposure thread

[mdmc]

.. I know we all love Chris in the Morning.. What else do you like?

[Duer 157099]

1. I really liked that show when it aired

but now it seems that most or many of the actors are rightwingers, and it just taints it for me now.

[mdmc]

3. I love the art, and allow the artists to do their own thing

I still like John Corbett

[pink-o]

7. I feel the same..especially despise Janine Turner.

But not as much as I hate Patricia Heaton. I really don't know if she was the weak link in such a great show as Raymond, or else I just hate her too much.

But funny, I do like Angie Harmon, and she's also a wingnut. So maybe it is just Janine and Patricia who suck at their jobs!

[yankeepants]

11. Oh my yes.

Janine Turner destroyed that show.

Such a cliche. So unbelievable. The other actors had to work so hard to make her less jaw-droppingly-shallow.

Thank jeebus that she is now gainfully employed helping gym equipment huckster Chuck Norris pedal his crap.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. Ruth!!

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and Shelly Tambeau and Holling Vancuer and the moose and watching the bears at the dump and the flying piano and Adam and Eve and the time when the dreams got all mixed up and .....The Brick!!

[mdmc]

16. The Dream episode!

Maurice's shoe fetish!!!

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. The Brick has an open spittoon running like a little river alongside the bar.

The food was good and their craft beer interesting. They even offered me a tasting so I could decide which one I wanted.

[mdmc]

21. yuck!

[pokerfan]

5. I've been there

Inside, the Brick looks nothing like it did on the show as Roslyn was just used for exterior shots but it's kind of fun to walk around the town.



NX Tour of Roslyn: http://www.curtcass.com/roslyn/

[mdmc]

6. thanks for the pic and link

[Rhiannon12866]

8. That was one of my shows!

I wrote the descriptions that appeared in the newspapers for all the CBS programming. Northern Exposure was a favorite of mine, started as a summer replacement series, and I used to push for writing a "Best Bet" about it, those shows that we'd recommend and write more on. It was unique and original, something we're seeing less and less of, with all this "reality-based" programming. *sigh*

[mdmc]

9. hello my friend! What was your favorite episode?

[Rhiannon12866]

14. One that sticks in my mind was the one where

Ruth Ann and Holling learned that one of their grandfathers had eaten the other one during a long ago blizzard. My fellow network editors completely supported singling that show out that week, since it was certainly original, LOL. Got a lot of laughs and exclamations... So it got a special write up...

Good to see you, too, my friend! Love this thread! Think I probably saw every episode from the beginning...

[mdmc]

15. Remember when satan came to Cicily?

As the traveling Jacuzzi salesman? Classic!

I also like Chris in the Mornings "Casey at the bat" thesis..

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. An extremely well-written, well-acted, delightful & "gentle" show. I thought it left much too soon.

[Ron Obvious]

12. I passed up the opportunity to be an extra

Never watched the show, but it was filmed nearby here in Roslyn, WA and I remember seeing an ad in the paper recruiting extras for the show. You had to present yourself at something like 7 AM, which would have meant leaving Seattle at about 5 AM, so I said to Hell with it.

I regret it now. Maybe they could have cast me as a mad-eyed drifter or something. It would have been something I could have dined out on for decades.

[mdmc]

13. thanks for the reply

[GoneOffShore]

18. You did well.

Being an extra is about exciting as watching paint dry.

[nightscanner59]

39. Tell me something... is there really a KBHR there?

Someone told me KBHR and the announcer Chris is for real from there? Or was she pulling my leg?

[GoneOffShore]

17. Are they all wingnuts because it was about Alaska?

And there's something in the water up there?

[mdmc]

19. I thought Turner was a republican

didn't know of any other wingers on the show..

[GoCubsGo]

31. They're not all wingnuts.

Rob Morrow donates to the Dems (scroll down):

http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=name_address&lat=34.0097460000&oldest=1&lng=-118.4659576000&lname=Morrow&fname=Rob

I'm betting Peg Phillips was not, either.

[madamesilverspurs]

20. Brick Bar

used to have cribbage tournaments on Sundays. Anybody know if it still does?

[JitterbugPerfume]

22. I loved everything about Northern Exposure

but I especially loved Chris and his unconventional ways!

Janine Turner was my least favorite even before I knew she was a right wing nut job. Other than Chris , I think my favotites were RuthAnn and Ed. Remember the grave dancing scene?

[mdmc]

23. that was a great scene

[mdmc]

24. kick

[KamaAina]

25. When Shelly got her heart broken

after she learned that her fellow hoser Holling had taken out American citizenship.

[mdmc]

26. classic

[nolabear]

27. I extra'd on Northern Exposure! Ask me anything!

I'll check back later. Sorry so late to the thread.

[mdmc]

33. Nolabear!

Nice to see you in this thread!

I'd love to hear some stories..

[nightscanner59]

40. Tell me something... is there really a KBHR there in the washington town it was filmed?

Someone told me KBHR is a real station there with Chris in the morning and all. Was she just pulling my leg? I thought it was all part of the act.

[nolabear]

41. No, not that I know of. The window was left I think.

I haven't been to Roslyn in a long time but long after the show was gone the window that was KBHR remained unchanged. So was Fleischman's office but I think that was bought and is now something else.

This thread is from March! How'd it pop up again?

[HopeHoops]

28. I walked down 4th St. in Clarion completely nude other than cowboy boots and a cowboy hat.

It was about 20 below and in February. Needless to say (but I'm going to anyway), I wasn't "sportin'".

[Bucky]

29. Chris in the Morning is a born again Christian and is shacking up with Bo Derek

Not bad.

I was gonna say "living in sin with Bo Derek", but then I remembered they were born again Christians.

[GoCubsGo]

30. I liked Adam the chef.

His wife was a bit much, but I loved his character. Adam Arkin did a great job with that one. I also liked Ed , Marily, Ruth and Chris' brother. And, I liked the shows with native themes, and the ones with Chris and his brother, whose name slips my mind.

[Taverner]

32. Too bad Chris and Maggie are fundie neocon xians....

[nolabear]

34. Okay, some "extra" stories:

The exteriors were filmed in Roslyn, on the way to the mountains from Seattle, but interiors were filmed in an old Adidas warehouse in Redmond, where I lived at the time. I knew one od the ADs and they were very geneorus with letting people come on the set. I hung out numerous times and now and then the handler for the extras would say "want to be in a scene?" and put a poncho or some other ugly hot thing on me. They were all in The Brick. I was sitting behind Joel and Maggie when they were playing Risk in the episode where they finally did it, and in some episode where Maggie hauled off and slugged Joel I was standing behind her at the juke box. In fact, she accidentally whacked me on the backswing in one take. She was a rather horrible person, frankly, and acted as though I was an annoyance (I was where I'd been placed). Others were just walkthroughs.

I wasn't nuts about either Rob Morrow or Janine Turner but others were nice people. Darren Burrows was affable, and one of the great shocks I had was one morning when he came in after a few days of not shaving and I realised he's blonde! The Ed hair and the blonde beard were worth a double take. John Cullum was a delight, but he couldn't quite tame his theater voice and no matter what he was saying everyone in the room heard it. John Corbett bought into a club in Seattle, the Phoenix Underground, and played there a lot. I also saw him (not during work) in some serious states of alteration.

My favorite times were hanging in the extras lounge though. Dave White (Dave the cook) was a really funny guy who played the guitar and I remember a Secret Agent Man marathon that had eveyone in hysterics. Elaine Miles didn't interact much but her mother, who played her mother, was always knitting and was very sweet.

I only went to Roslyn to watch. I enjoyed the Antique Car Club's run up to Roslyn when they did the Roslyn and Cicely episode, and the folks in town had a typical love/hate relationship with all the fuss. It's a nice little place though, and I hear that they still have Moosefests up there.

When they quit, they auctioned off all the costumes and props, and I am the proud owner of two things: the sweater that Graham Green (be still my heart!) wore as Leonard, and the Last Supper Club sign.

[mdmc]

35. Thanks for the reply

I enjoyed reading it..

[Bruce Wayne]

36. Wow. I just bought four of the seasons on DVD last month

I'll keep an eye out for you when I get to the Risk episode.

I love John Cullum in everything he does.

[mdmc]

37. Thanks for the post

[otherone]

38. kick