I sure never intended to give credence to what she said. I never even knew that she started the NYPD Blue payback rumors.
Hi Ruby,
David's stalker didn't start the NYPD Blue backlash story. But she took every accusation, ugly rumor and lie to epic proporations with the help of unfriendly bloggers, hateful fans and critics. She created and spread, through a huge number of websites and an untold number of fake identities (sockpuppet has her picture in the dictionary), as many hateful and ugly rumors as her sick mind could come up with.
And people who dislike David were more than happy to believe everything and anything she put out there and keep it going. Some still do!
It was obvious to everyone that David's decision to leave NYPD Blue early was a questionable career decision that had a long-term negative effect.
David has admitted that during the latter part of his time on NYPD Blue he behaved very badly and has apologized until he is blue in the face. He has said over and over and over again that he learned his lesson the hard way and the industry certainly drove the message home with a drought of work after he left the show.
He learned his lesson. And rumors that everyone keeps putting out there whenever there appears to be anything wrong with the show or someone in the cast isn't happy that it's David fault is BS.
Do a search of the Internet sometime and see what fans who have actually MET David say about him. I think you'll be surprised at the over the top number of people who say he is the most friendly and nice guy they've ever met.
David does not control every aspect of what happens on CSI Miami. I don't think Horatio would be the second string character he's become if David had the input people think he has.
Rumors are usually started, and perpetuated, by people with some kind of an agenda. The fact that these rumors are rearing their ugly head again, after almost 20 years for god's sake, tells me someone has a negative agenda going. Possibly they are trying to deflect some negativity that may be directed their way and put it on someone who is a very easy target because any ugly accusations thrown at David are so easily taken as fact by the haters.
These accusations, ugly rumors and lies just get old after a while.
Thanks for understanding, Ruby.
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In keeping with a point I made previously about Dennis Franz, here is a quote from an interview he gave EW magazine as NYPD Blue was winding down.
"I'll give him a lot of credit because that first year David was the hottest thing on television. Everybody wanted a piece of him. He had great film directors offering him opportunities, and he was still a young actor that understandably wanted to do feature-film work. He chose to take that big chance and left. I'm not going to criticize him for that, because we all play our game the way we play our game. Unfortunately, it didn't work and a lot of people laughed at him and said, ''Well, he made a dumb move.'' He suffered for a long time after he left the show. Now he's back on top. So God bless him, and let's move on. All is forgiven as far as I'm concerned."
- Dennis Franz
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1029017,00.html
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One more that I think is relevant to the current discussion. This one is by David Duchovny when he was being compared to David Caruso for leaving The X-Files. I really applauded Duchonvy's responses in this interview. (
Note: This interview was conducted and published
before David Caruso got the CSI Miami gig.)
Duchovny's ex files
05 JUL 2001
The X-Files star tells CLAIRE SUTHERLAND he's not nervous about leaving
television, Herald Sun
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Duchovny professes no nervousness at leaving The X Files for a stab at a big screen career. Neither does he have any regrets.
But a question at a press conference the day before our interview sticks in his
craw.
He was asked if he ever woke in the middle of the night scared he'd become David Caruso.
Caruso famously left the enormously successful TV drama NYPD Blue to make a string of forgettable films, thus becoming a media byword for failure.
Duchovny is still agitated the next day.
"I just feel bad for people like David Caruso, not that I think he deserves anybody's sympathy, but I just think here's a guy who makes a fairly heroic choice, which is to leave a huge success," he says.
"What people don't say is NYPD Blue is still very successful but there is no NYPD Blue without Caruso making it in the first year. Nobody is going to watch that show. He was the best actor on TV. He was phenomenal. He gave NYPD Blue its feet and the only reason it's still going is because he gave it its feet."
Comparing his career with Caruso's, or any other TV star-turned-movie star is a moot point, Duchovny says.
"These are all very personal decisions people make. Everybody's living their own lives and there's no rule, there's no formula, there's no cautionary tale, really. David Caruso is a really good actor no matter what he does and who gives a s. . . in the end whether he makes a hit movie."
It clearly interests Duchovny, as he continues unprompted.
"I think there's a certain media kind of joy when somebody falls flat on their face, or when somebody actually has the balls to stand up and say 'I think I can do more'. Because most people walk around going 'You should just be happy with your lot, you should be happy with a success'," he says.
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