Welcome back to good days, Dateline,
we love having a Tim Mahoney
stopped by the studio tonight, we're having a little fun.
We've been doing this so Wednesday's game day,
but we've been like double up on the game.
I love that I get to come in and I have no idea
what's going to happen and we just show up
and I feel like an anchor today, you know, stay in Iraq.
All right, here we go.
All right.
So we are playing a game where we're going
to see a photo of a celebrity.
I think these are all men who have played lawyers
in some sort of television or movie situation, so we'll see
if you know anything about them.
OK, great. Here we go. Let's see it. Number one.
OK. Do you know who this guy is?
I'm not going to remember exactly when he was in L.A. law.
He was the divorce lawyer in L.A. law.
So he is Corbin Bernsen. Yes.
And I feel like he was in a Disney movie or something
or else I wouldn't know who he is.
So his his lawyer name was Arnie Becker there.
You know anything about him in the show?
He was. He was single.
He was a ladies man, drove a Porsche.
He did finally end up getting married.
Oh yeah, we all watch L.A.
Law was on when I was in law school.
OK, watch it faithfully every Thursday night. Yes.
So he finally did decide
he was going to get married, but he like cheated
with somebody on the night that he was supposed to marry.
Right? Yeah, something like that.
He was a
he was the sleazy divorce attorney,
but he was really good at his job and and he was very good at,
you know, producing income .
Did you feel like that show was like realistic?
No. No. But it was a lot of non-lawyers.
It was a lot of fun.
You know, the most realistic show
that has ever been on television about a courtroom, Judge
Wapner. OK.
That was an actual judge who did small claims court.
Remember, courtrooms are very different
depending upon what type of case it is.
And Judge Wapner was a small claims judge
in court in California, I think, and ended up in his.
That show is it pretty typical small claims
courtroom to people come up. They say their sides.
You know,
if you're a judge in a small claims
court room,
you've got to really be on your toes
because anything can pop up at any time.
You know, this is availment case.
This is a contract case,
and you've got to remember what all that stuff is.
And there's no time for,
you know, to tell a lawyer, you know, judges don't know.
They just tell the lawyers, Hey, do a brief on that and tell me
that's all.
And then they make the lawyer do all the work.
So, all right, let's see if we can get the second one.
This is the one I actually know.
Except I mean, I guess he's pretty old guy.
Do you know who this is? That's
I don't even know if he's still alive.
I know he isn't. He isn't alive.
That's the
that's the movie about discrimination
to kill a Mockingbird.
Gregory Peck, Gregory Peck to Kill a Mockingbird.
I don't. I mean, I read the book.
I watched the movie, but it's been a while.
I got nothing else to say about that.
I said enough about the private
number three,
if anything about this Joe Pesci.
Oh, that I didn't notice that was Joe Pesci either.
So my cousin Vinny? Yes.
And he played.
Yeah, you bland.
He played Vinny Gambino. Vinny Gambino? Yes.
So is the movie about him?
I know.
What's your name?
Well, you never saw the movie. No. But she won an Oscar.
She won Best Supporting Actress. Mirza told me, Did.
It's a lovely movie.
He's fantastic in it.
It's a great story.
She's, of course, phenomenal.
That's why she won the Academy Award for,
you know, to win an Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actress in a comedy.
Yeah, it's pretty rare.
And no, it's a beautiful movie.
You get a chance to watch it this weekend. It's hilarious.
Very good. Well, Bill, so still movie weather.
All right. Number four,
that's the Addams Family.
That's the guy from The Addams Family.
I have no idea where he was alive.
Gomez, Adam. Yeah, it was. I.
Oh, were they in or was he a lawyer?
I have. I have no clue. We're going to look at that.
I mean, must be.
It's worth a good, Emily said. Yeah.
All right. Number five.
This is a more recent show.
This is Josh Charles. You know, he is.
This is probably an SVU guy, right?
I don't know what from The Good Wife.
I think my mom watched it for a while.
Yeah, we can go to the next one.
Thanks. Didn't get that one.
Number six, the next one is a Mahoney on either, Larry.
This this a kind of very famous. He was.
He was a lawyer in
the guy whose daughter was killed.
It was an African.
It was Samuel L Jackson.
His daughter was killed
and then he killed the person who killed his daughter, but
also ended up shooting a police officer and crippling them.
And this is when Matthew McConaughey
kind of launched himself as really a great,
a great actor, and he really was.
He was fantastic in the movie
and the book too, I think, by John Grisham.
Was it a Grisham book?
Sounds like a time to kill, a time to kill?
Yeah,
which I think is a John
Grisham book because I think my mom has it.
She has to read them all.
Number seven, I know this is a very famous guy
and a very famous movie.
Tom Hanks
and the movie where he played a lawyer was in Philadelphia.
Yes, that's one of his, yeah, the first movie about AIDS,
and he was in a very highfalutin law firm in Philadelphia
and hid the fact that he was homosexual
because they would have never allowed him to be in the firm.
And. Then they
he got AIDS and they found out about it and fired him, and
he hires
Denzel Washington to be his attorney to represent him
in prosecuting that case, and it was really a
cutting edge movie because it was the,
you know, this was back when,
you know, there were certain politicians saying,
we shouldn't be doing research on AIDS
because it's God's way of killing.
You know,
that was that was a school of thought
and a portion of the country at the time.
So it was a very progressive movie,
which is typical from Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.
Know you won the Academy Award and all very you like, well,
well-loved movies.
And now if you're cold this weekend,
you don't want to go do anything.
Tim Mahoney says you can watch some of these movies.
You can find them at Mahoney's Got your.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Always great to be here.
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