Philip Baker Hall, library cop Lt. Bookman, dies at 90 - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

SarahBellum · 06-13-2022, 02:51 PM

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...es-1235164442/

Chocolate Moose · 06-13-2022, 03:08 PM

Oh ....... too bad. He was awesome!

SarahBellum · 06-13-2022, 03:23 PM

His performance as Lt. Bookman was hillarious. As was Charles Levin's performance as the Mohel in The Bris. IMO they were the best one-episode guest stars on Seinfeld. Sadly, both are gone now.

wayfarer · 06-14-2022, 06:56 PM

Some great one liners in "The Library" episode...RIP Philip

TMC · 06-15-2022, 03:45 AM

Philip Baker Hall's Seinfeld library cop Lt. Joe Bookman was a "tour de farce" performance for the ages

"Every line is a body blow," says Karen Heller of the recently departed actor's legendary guest spot on the 1991 episode of Seinfeld, adding: "As the hard-nosed, Folgers Crystals-imbibing, New York Public Library cop, Hall out-Fridays Dragnet’s Sgt. Joe Friday. He’s an alien from another era. It’s as though he was hired to helm a Warner Bros. B gangster flick and mistakenly marched onto the set of a ’90s sitcom." Patton Oswalt called it "hands down, the greatest guest spot in a sitcom, ever," while the This Podcast Is Making Me Thirsty Seinfeld Podcast tweeted that Hall is "regarded by many as the greatest one-episode Seinfeld guest star.” "Which is quite something," adds Heller. "There are nearly 180 Seinfeld episodes and a constellation of guest stars over nine seasons. Hall appears in the 22nd episode, airing Oct. 16, 1991, early in the third season when Seinfeld and co-creator Larry David were still monkeying with the recipe." As Heller notes, the New York Public Library wished Lt. Bookman "Happy Retirement" when it announced last year that it was eliminating all fines.

wayfarer · 06-21-2022, 07:11 PM

Put perfectly..."every line is a body blow" in that episode and it's true!

06-13-2022, 02:51 PM	#1
SarahBellum Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 15, 2007 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 3,873	Philip Baker Hall, library cop Lt. Bookman, dies at 90 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...es-1235164442/

06-13-2022, 03:08 PM	#2
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06-13-2022, 03:23 PM	#3
SarahBellum Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 15, 2007 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 3,873	His performance as Lt. Bookman was hillarious. As was Charles Levin's performance as the Mohel in The Bris. IMO they were the best one-episode guest stars on Seinfeld. Sadly, both are gone now.
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06-14-2022, 06:56 PM	#4
wayfarer Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Sep 06, 2021 Location: Melbourne Posts: 34	Some great one liners in "The Library" episode...RIP Philip

06-15-2022, 03:45 AM	#5
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 125,370	Philip Baker Hall's Seinfeld library cop Lt. Joe Bookman was a "tour de farce" performance for the ages "Every line is a body blow," says Karen Heller of the recently departed actor's legendary guest spot on the 1991 episode of Seinfeld, adding: "As the hard-nosed, Folgers Crystals-imbibing, New York Public Library cop, Hall out-Fridays Dragnet’s Sgt. Joe Friday. He’s an alien from another era. It’s as though he was hired to helm a Warner Bros. B gangster flick and mistakenly marched onto the set of a ’90s sitcom." Patton Oswalt called it "hands down, the greatest guest spot in a sitcom, ever," while the This Podcast Is Making Me Thirsty Seinfeld Podcast tweeted that Hall is "regarded by many as the greatest one-episode Seinfeld guest star.” "Which is quite something," adds Heller. "There are nearly 180 Seinfeld episodes and a constellation of guest stars over nine seasons. Hall appears in the 22nd episode, airing Oct. 16, 1991, early in the third season when Seinfeld and co-creator Larry David were still monkeying with the recipe." As Heller notes, the New York Public Library wished Lt. Bookman "Happy Retirement" when it announced last year that it was eliminating all fines.

06-21-2022, 07:11 PM	#6
wayfarer Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Sep 06, 2021 Location: Melbourne Posts: 34	Put perfectly..."every line is a body blow" in that episode and it's true!