Posted this in The Lounge, but coinciding with the thread bump, I'm reading True Blue which is written by Milch and the detective consultant from NYPD Blue, from 1995. It's Milch talking about the early days of the show (and his own health and gambling problems), and interesting cop stories mixed in. Very much worth reading if you love Milch (which you do if you're reading this thread). I have never watched NYPD Blue, it's not necessary. The book makes me want to watch it.

Here's a Milch article from February. Sounds like he'll be fine.

http://buffalonews.com/2017/02/05/mi...g-pick-pieces/

Damn man i got all kinds of excited when i saw this bumped with a bunch of replies

Stop doing it!

just stop!

jay mohr is douchebag wow

I was so pissed when I saw it however many years ago when they were getting ready to talk about how that GQ writer "got Deadwood" and Mohr interupts him and they move on to another topic.

I liked how Milch told Rappaport that he could write a great show for network TV that didn't have cussing.

i totally agree that a show like deadwood would be a huge hit on network tv, with or without the cussing

it was interesting to me that a movie like unforgiven has no audience in france or germany. i thought they liked cowboys. maybe it's different now?

lol you, it was obv nothing new was happening here a week ago. if my post changed your perception, then thats not too sharp.

nothing new, i've just been rewatching the series. really good stuff! but i been skipping over almost all the dustin hoffman parts. that part was boring to me. i love the degenerate gambler characters.

i also read they filmed the first episode of season 2! but never released it. i wish we could watch it.

and supposedly the main reason the show was cancelled is because david milch and michael mann hated each other's guts.

and supposedly david milch relapsed his gambling addiction because of this show. i wonder if he lost more money than the show made him

Milch lost everything he owned, like nine figures, and went eight figures into debt. Luckily, he can still earn his way out of it.

Milch and Mann had worked it out. Milch had to turn in the scripts, then STFU. Show was canceled cuz lol lame horses.

dayum, that is some serious gambling. and i thought i was on a bad losing streak

FYP

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2427104/trivia?ref_=tt_ql_2

That's funny.

Mann and Milch did a joint interview once, saying they had drawn boundary lines and worked it all out. I bought it.

It's kind of hard to believe they'd use such an embarrassing story as cover, especially to cover something that's not all that embarrassing. It's like ****ting your pants to distract folks from the scratch in your car fender.

it might not be true. it might very well have been cancelled just because of the horses.

Or maybe it was canceled because of the bad blood between Milch and Mann?

Unless it was over the horses.

Found a random Nick Nolte interview tonight.

1. It was NOT "just the horses", it was Mann and Milch.

2. Ace was gonna gonna head down to the barn and tell Walter Smith, "I'm buying the track, I want a GM who will clean this place up and weed out all the crooked trainers, jockeys, etc--I want YOU to be that guy."

https://tv.avclub.com/nick-nolte-on-...n-a-1798253764

Oh, the "feud or horses?" debate started here with a quote from Nolte from the very interview I stumbled upon last night, and linked above. I had never heard of this "Random Roles" series of interviews, but I started digging through them last night, and bookmarked at least 30 of them to get me started, from Richard Schiff to Chachi.

Here's the Luck stuff from Kevin Dunn, with a little Deadwood thrown in at the end:

Told my gf the "Does this mean we get the job?" story, and she realized that she's never seen Luck, so we watched the first two eps last night. Of course the pause button got a work-out, we needed captions, etc, but she really liked it.

This is the first time I've watched it WITH somebody. Her reaction to Tattered Flag's breakdown at the end of the pilot was like nothing I've ever seen from someone watching a movie or tv show. She half-stood, half-twisted, sat back down, looked away, cried out in horror, tried looking back a few times, looked away each time the horse's dangling hoof was shown, more cries of "Ohhhhhh!", hugging herself the entire time....it was wild.

While the vet was putting the horse down, gf declared, "I don't like that they did that to the horse!" She meant the fictional horse, to be clear.

I pointed out that it wasn't gratuitous, it illustrated that a day at the track isn't all fun and games, the horses and jockeys are literally risking their lives. She backed off her criticism.

When it was over, she wanted to leap immediately to Ep2.

sounds like anytime i talk to a woman

Michael Gambon was awesome in Luck.

GF and I just finished. She loved it, esp the horses, lol.

This time around, I caught a great line from Trevor Denman I had previously missed, as Mon Gateau made a charge in his first stakes race: "....and this fugitive from the claiming ranks seems to have his rivals MEASURED!"

I had also missed:

--Lonnie's remark that Mon Gateau posted a better time that day than GUM+POP.

--When Renzo picks up his mom at the bus station, she calls him "Ritchie", which is the actor's first name, lol.

Now that you guys know what a pick-6 is:

Yesterday at Gulfstream, one ticket was going to scoop the $570,000+ carryover, his 8-1 shot was ahead by daylight--but the jockey fell off a few yards before the finish line, disqualifying his horse.

https://deadspin.com/horse-loses-joc...tor-1821644906

final stretch run at 1:40 mark below

oh my ****ing GOD