TV Guide: Ron Leibman

Listing: The One with the Race Car Bed

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:30:00 -0400

Fri Oct 24 06:30 PM TBS Monica orders a bed from the store owned by Janice's estranged husband; Joey teaches soap-opera acting; Ross struggles through a dinner with Rachel's abrasive father. Dr. Green: Ron Leibman. Janice: Maggie Wheeler. Joey: Matt LeBlanc. Ross: David Schwimmer.

Listing: Incident in Lot 7

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:00:00 -0400

Wed Oct 22 11:00 PM HALMRK At Universal Studios, a producer is murdered on the set of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho." Paula Prentiss. Willy: Jackie Gayle. Heyward: Ron Leibman. Ben: Stuart Whitman. Oliver: Henry Gibson. Jessica: Angela Lansbury.

Listing: Garden State

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:15:00 -0400

Tue Oct 21 06:15 PM IFC

Listing: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Mon Oct 20 12:00 AM USA

Listing: The One with the Two Parties

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:30:00 -0400

Fri Oct 17 06:30 PM TBS When Rachel's divorcing parents both show up for her birthday, her friends hold two separate parties to keep them apart. Sandra: Marlo Thomas. Leonard: Ron Leibman. Rachel: Jennifer Aniston.

Video: Auto Focus

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:41:25 -0400

The life and sordid, untimely death of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane are explored by director Paul Schrader in this biopic, which marks one of the few times the filmmaker has not scripted his own film. Auto Focus chronologically traces the meteoric rise of Crane's show business career, beginning with his early success as a jokey deejay on Los Angeles morning radio in the early '60s. A devout family man, Crane lives in Southern Californian comfort with his wife Anne (Rita Wilson) and their young children, relishing the modicum of celebrity his job provides him. His life begins to change, however, when his agent Lenny (Ron Leibman) proposes that he take a breakthrough role on the CBS POW-camp sitcom Hogan's Heroes. Initially reluctant to take the job, Crane signs on with the production and, to his and everyone else's surprise, the show becomes a smash hit. With celebrity comes a new set of friends, and Crane falls in with audio-visual guru John Carpenter (Willem Dafoe), a Sony sales rep who spends his days sett

Video: Personal Velocity

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:09:21 -0400

Three women whose lives have followed very different paths ponder their pasts and their futures in this omnibus film from second-time director Rebecca Miller, adapted from her acclaimed short story collection of the same name. Delia (Kyra Sedgwick) grew up in a fractured household; her mother abandoned the family when Delia was a child, and her father (Brian Tarantina) was a drug-addled loser who could barely be prodded off the couch. When she entered adolescence, Delia realized that she could use her body to get men to do as she pleased. While this gained her a feeling of power and self-sufficiency, it also earned her a reputation as the class slut, and the end product was her marriage to Kurt (David Warshofsky). Greta (Parker Posey) is the daughter of a successful lawyer (Ron Leibman) who left her mother when she was young and offered Greta criticism rather than affection. Plagued with self-doubt, Greta is squandering her literary talents editing cookbooks and is married to Lee (Tim Guinee. When Thavi (Joel

Video: Night Falls On Manhattan

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:03:57 -0400

A lawyer discovers just how fine the line between good and evil can be in this drama based on the novel {-Tainted Evidence} by Robert Daley. When a carefully-planned bust of drug dealer Jordan Washington (Shiek Mahmud-Bey) goes sour, a shootout between Washington and officers from three precincts leaves a number of cops dead or wounded. Washington escapes in the confusion, but he turns himself in on the advice of gadfly lawyer Sam Vigoda (Richard Dreyfuss). District Attorney Morgenstern (Ron Leibman) appoints Sean Casey (Andy Garcia), a former cop new to trial law, to prosecute the case, less for his legal expertise than because Sean's father, Liam (Ian Holm), was one of the injured officers, guaranteeing good press. Despite Vigoda's allegations of widespread police corruption, Sean scores an easy victory in the case; Washington is behind bars, and the young lawyer's career is on the rise; however, the discovery of a dead body confirms suspicions that Vigoda's allegations have a basis in fact, and Sean learns

Video: In The Hands Of The Enemy

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:03:58 -0400

There is no question that the Arab terrorist portrayed by Robert Davi is guilty of killing five US citizens in Barcelona. Even his lawyers have zero respect for the rabidly sociopathic Davi. But Jewish defense attorney Ron Leibman is obsessed with the concept of Due Process, and has vowed that Davi will receive a scrupulously fair trial when the terrorist is extradited to America. The defense mounted by Leibman confounds and aggravates government prosecutor Sam Waterston--but he, like Leibman, remains a man of judiciary integrity. Though purely a work of speculative fiction, Terrorist on Trial raises ethical and moral questions that cannot be easily shunted aside with the mantra of it's only a TV movie. The film was a worthy valedictory piece for the Emmy-winning writing team of Richard Levinson (who died just after the film's completion) and William Link. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: Phar Lap

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:01:21 -0400

Phar Lap, the legendary New Zealand-bred racing horse, is as well-known today for his mysterious death as for his fabulous accomplishments in life. Beginning at the end, the film flashes back to the day that Phar Lap, despite his lack of pedigree, is purchased on impulse by trainer Harry Telford (Martin Vaughan). Phar Lap loses his first races, but Telford's faith in the animal is unshakable. Suddenly the horse becomes a winner, thanks to the love and diligence of stableboy Tommy Woodcock (Tom Burlinson). American-promoter Dave Davis (Ron Leibman) arranges for Phar Lap to be entered in several top races, where his long shot status results in heavy losses for the professional gamblers. Just after winning an important race in Mexico, Phar Lap collapse and dies; though the film never comes out and says as much, it is assumed that the horse was murdered by the gambling interests. The film is based on a book by Michael Wilkinson. The real-life Tommy Woodcock appears in the film as an elderly trainer. ~ Hal Erickso

Video: Norma Rae

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:00:05 -0400

Norma Rae finds Sally Field cast in the title role, a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill. The factory has taken too much of a toll on the health of Norma Rae's family for her to ignore her Dickensian working conditions. After hearing a speech by New York union organizer Reuben (Ron Leibman), Norma Rae decides to join the effort to unionize her shop. This causes dissension at home when Norma Rae's husband, Sonny (Beau Bridges), assumes that her activism is a result of a romance between herself and Reuben. Despite the pressure brought to bear by management, Norma Rae successfully orchestrates a shutdown of the mill, resulting in victory for the union and capitulation to its demands. Based on a true story, Norma Rae is the film for which Sally Field won her first Oscar; an additional Oscar went to David Shire and Norman Gimbel for the film's theme song, It Goes Like It Goes. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: "Keep an Open Mind"

Yahoo Movies — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:41:42 -0400

Lenny (Ron Leibman) tells Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) about the starring role in a TV comedy based in a POW camp