Welcome to third installment of an NCDSUV feature that, like its subjects, deserves to get more love. And while past editions have highlighted the humble ad exploits of Kate And Allie and Curb Your Enthusiasm ex-pats, today we make a plea on behalf of Corinne Bohrer, the perky, olive-skinned star of '80s body-switching classic Vice Versa, as well as recurring guest star on everything from Murder, She Wrote to Herman's Head. Bohrer was at the head of a class of her generation's character actresses, also epitomized by squeaky- voiced Road House redhead Kathleen Wilhoite.
But nowadays, rather than grabbing paychecks from primetime dramas and swapping spit with a Fred Savage-possessed Judge Reinhold, Bohrer is soaking up domestic spills with Bounty paper towels. And when you're key line amidst 30 seconds of celluloid is, "Nope, it's a one-sheeter," you may as well be boosting anti-diarrhetics.
Chances are, the dearth of scripted programming has left a paucity of work for a middle-aged, mid-level thespianne whose theatrical high-water mark of late has been Revenge Of The Nerds IV. But even still, you'd think HBO, who've dug up so many struggling SAG members for their Sunday night programming, could find a spot for a hardworking cutey like Ms. Bohrer. Especially when hacks like Stephen Moyer are biting into the lead on True Blood.
Feel free to begin the unofficial NCDSUV petition for the resurrection of Corinne Bohrer's carrer on the comments board below.
As discussed in a recent article about Chris Williams, aka Curb Your Enthusiasm's Krazee-Eyez Killa, aka Vanessa Williams' brother, there's a good reason to herald the DVR: So we miss commercials that feature familiar faces from the small and silver screens, slumming it to make a buck and hoping no one puts two and two together.
There an alarming number of these instances, and it's always a bit like driving by a Burger King in your hometown and seeing the most popular kid from high school flipping patties for potheads. And frankly, you kind of wonder what keeps them clinging to the desperate quest for a Hollywood breakthrough when it might just be easier to manage one of the franchises they shill for.
And today we turn our charitable efforts toward poor, puffy faced Frederick Koehler, who has slid down the slippery ladder of success from playing Chip on Kate And Allie 25 years ago to pushing diarrhetic breakfast on old codgers for 30-second Fiber One spots.
Imagine if you were a successful trader (or whatever the terminology is) at Lehman Bros. and, after losing your job, found work as a teller at a local Chase branch. Embarrassing, but at least there's a dose of anonymity to it.
Now picture your equivalent as an actor. You have a couple of breakthrough supporting roles in the odd film or sitcom, only to have trouble landing your next big part, and so you take a few gigs doing less-than-glamorous TV spots for national chains─that are seen by millions of people.
Well, I am here to plead for one such man to be lifted out of his casting funk by benevolent Hollywood talent scouts. Because not since seeing Wet Hot American Summer nerd-deluxe Kevin Sussman in a subsequent Verizon ad have I felt such sympathy for a struggling actor. And the man I now speak of goes by the popularized moniker Krazee-Eyez Killa, known better to his friends and relatives as Chris Williams (actually, he's probably better known to them as the brother of his vastly more successful and attractive sister Vanessa).
