Law and Order Sightings

Law & Order is now streaming on Netflix! Not the smutty SVU kind. NO. Original kind. It's awesome, and very very very dated. There are scenes where the cameras are positively out of focus. It's the Dark Shadows of early 90s courtroom dramas.

This may be the inaugural post of a series I Law & Order sightings: big name stars before they were big, playing all kinds of riff raff. Behold below: Is that Phillip Seymore Hoffman? As a drug-addled defendant? But wait, who is his attorney? Could it be Samuel L. Jackson?

Yes. Yes it is. Enjoy.

Clarification on mothers and adult children of mothers in movies

Angela Lansbury was born in October of 1925, which means she was about 37 when The Manchurian Candidate came out in 1962, and Laurence Harvey, who played her son, was three years younger.

North by Northwest came out in 1959, which would make Cary Grant 55. Jessie Royce Landis, who played his mother, was eight years older than he was.

Amy Poehler talked (in some video I can't find) about the age difference between her and Rachel McAdams who played her daughter in Mean Girls. Poehler was 33 in 2004 and McAdams was 26.

Speaking of North by Northwest, the second half of this episode of Selected Shorts  is a pretty great story called Cary Grant's Suit.