Tony Shalhoub --- nice guy or cunt?

I work in the service industry and have encountered Shalhoub and his wife , both raging cunts but the wife is the worst.

I just remember how hot he looked in his tight jeans on WINGS.

His wife is a doll. I worked with her in NY and loved her. Only met him once, shy I think

I liked the the first seasons with Bitty Schram. Then after that other blonde took over I lost interest in the show, she wasn’t as good.

He and Brooke Adams had COVID.

The second woman was nowhere near as good as Bitty Schram.

R2, I seem to recall his wearing Mom-jeans on WINGS, No?

[6] Wonder what the story behind her leaving.

Schrams replacement stunk and ruined the show. Shalhoub and his wife both seem like rancid assholes.

Well he is good friends with Patricia Heaton's husband and was best man at their wedding...

[quote] [R2], I seem to recall his wearing Mom-jeans on WINGS, No?

Well I guess compared to the trashy skinny jeans so many are wearing today they were more for a mature man. So I'll concede to snug rather than tight.

r9 Yes! The show turned overly corny after Schram's departure, Monk and Sharona had a tragedy to them, they felt like real people, the show had just the right amount of grit

So where's that industry insider who claimed Shalhoub and his wife are both assholes? He implied he had stories. Cuz so far I've heard insiders claim they're great and others claim they're assholes.

R13 My guess is they're fantastic to the people who can do something to them or for them while everyone else gets treated like shit.

Or money changed them.

well R14, that might explain the conflicting reports. But what about freezing Bitty Schram out on the red carpet? And maybe more tellingly, the rest of the cast supporting her. Watch that clip on the red carpet. It was practically lunch room in junior high.

R16 I've always suspected that there was a nasty story behind Schrams departure. For all we know Shalhoub played a part in it.

Bitty Schram demanded more money before her contract was up. The producers told her no. She thought she had them over a barrel but when she stopped showing up for work, they fired her and recast.

^ Forgot to add that they did bring her back as a guest star twice in the last season.

Look how trim he was back during his Wings days.

Suzanne Somers syndrome.

I don't think she stopped showing up. No one said that, not even the producers. There was no halt or slowdown in production either.

And she was working for about $10K/episode. Tony Shalhoub for at least 10X that. I think it was reasonable after 2.5 years to renegotiate that contract.

Agree about Bitty. I still watched, but the show lost part of its edge when she left. I like Tony, would prefer he not be an ass.

R23 I agree. But if he IS an ass, I wouldn't watch the non-Bitty episodes.

I like Natalie much better than Sharona. Monk is freak enough, having two freak leads is disconcerting and annoying. Natalie made a good straight man to the freak.

no. Natalie was boring. Sharona was not a freak. She was working class. Sort of uber-normal. Highlighted Monk's weirdness.

Who'd have ever imagined he win a Tony for Best Lead Actor -- in a MUSICAL?

Natalie was supposed to be rich (of the davenport toothpaste fortune), but was nevertheless a struggling working mom who was always broke, because her snooty family disapproved of her dead husband, the Air force fighter pilot hero, who was inexplicably, a fuck up.

If they had just stuck with Bitty Schram, they'd have been so much better off.

Brooke is Legend as far as DL is concerned for being on the receiving end of one of the greatest lines in cinema history...

I like him as the dad on Mrs Mazel. And he reminds me of my dentist who is a great guy. So he’s good in my book.

Bitty could be hard to look at in some shots. Shalhoub, who I admire as an actor, is no oil painting himself. Natalie (Traylor Howard) was pleasing to the eye from all angles. I enjoyed the change.

I thought Jason Gray Stanford (Randy) was kinda hot, but I’ve had a thing for guys with a five head.

Sharona had appeal, she was interesting and fun to look - I found Natalie to be totally inoffensive and totally dull

fun to look *at

[quote]So where's that industry insider who claimed Shalhoub and his wife are both assholes? He implied he had stories. Cuz so far I've heard insiders claim they're great and others claim they're assholes.

I never met his wife except in passing (and she was pleasant) but I worked with him 6 days a week for months on The Band's Visit on Broadway. An absolute sweetheart.: kind, humble - and yes, a little Very professional and reserved, but maybe a touch socially awkward. A fine stage performer, and one of the rare ones who draw attention to fellow performers by the attention they receive and reflect that focus back to their colleagues.

Just watch him in the Tony performance of Omar Shariff. He never takes his eyes off Lenk.

In that clip OP posted it looks like the people who are supporting players on his show are socializing while Shaloub, who is the star of their show he's responding to photographer's request that he stopped and posed for them.

I don't watch red carpet footage much. Do red carpet photographers usually ask everyone in the show to separately pose? Do they ask for a group shot of the whole cast? I don't know but it certainly didn't look like he was shunning of the rest of the cast.

Maybe he's a jerk. I don't really know, but that video isn't proof either way.

agreed re original video on red carpet. But still weird.

Thanks R35 for that post. I loved it.

R35, thanks. I saw the show twice, once with Shalhoub and once without. That was an astonishingly heartfelt performance.

He’s hot.

Shalhoub has been nominated for a Tony several times and he himself said he was astonished to win for Best Lead Actor in a Musical. It should be noted that although the character is the male lead he has almost no singing.

I was too busy jacking off to Tim Daly to notice what Tony was wearing.

a starstruck colleague misplaced their order at the counter. Wifey is older and frailer in person I did not recognize her. I asked what name the order was placed under and she told me 'TONY'! I couldn't find their order or my colleague to figure out wtf went wrong and wifey bellowed WERE LEAVING ! Tony followed her out like a dog with a simple ass look on his face. It was busier than usual, other clients were waiting for assistance but a solution could have been offered, wifey wanted to fight. I saw them a few times after that incident and took care to stay out of their way.

during the moments I looked for their order, wifey talked under her breath and drummed her fingers on the counter. She made a scene in front of other customers waiting for service .

I worked with him several years on Wings. Sweet, kind, professional and seemed to get along with everyone. Always great to me and I was not one of the higher ups. Just a good guy.

[quote] during the moments I looked for their order, wifey talked under her breath and drummed her fingers on the counter. She made a scene in front of other customers waiting for service .

Nobody thought to utter “So...which one of you bitches is my mother?” to diffuse the tension?

didn't recognize her, she is much older and has an old woman's voice. he looks the same in person, and she looks like his mom.

R43 What a couple of smelly turds. Adams is washed up bitch anyway. One thing I hated when I did restaurant work were douchebag couples. There was always one half of the couple who passively sat by while their wife /husband /fuck buddy acted like a raging cunt. Adams and Shalhoub sound like the A Hole couple played by Sudeikis and Wiig in SNL.

^ Or Harry and Megs.

Brooke Adams is a descendant of John Quincy, I believe. They have a home on Martha's Vineyard, that Brooke Adams sewed curtains, bedspreads and tablecloths for.

I am frankly happy to hear he might be whipped by her, but also that she has her better angels as well.

She is 6 years older than he is.

Some guys can't take care of themselves. Can't do laundry or cook or clean a house. Without Mommy they can't survive. So they need a housekeeper. As Thornton Wilder said, "Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper thing she's a householder."

I don't know if that's what going on here, but check out Prince Harry and Patton Oswald.

The Monk cast did an in-character PSA/skit about staying safe during the Coronavirus pandemic, so I'll give him a plus for that.

He was the 2nd youngest in like 10 or 12 kids, so R51's theory might be en point. He was the baby.

He always seemed like a poor man’s Stanley Tucci to me.

[quote] The Monk cast did an in-character PSA/skit about staying safe during the Coronavirus pandemic, so I'll give him a plus for that.

Do you have a link?

Here you go. Fast forward to about 1:40 if you don't want to watch Seth MacFarlane.

supposedly has the biggest cock in Hollywood today.

I hope he’s nice. I adore Monk, one of the few series I laugh at loud at.

I really enjoy him in Mrs. Maisel.

r54 Well, they played brothers in the wonderful film, "Big Night."

He and Neil Patrick Harris were on a show together.

I want to like Tony Shalhoub more, but his acting schtick is so limited.

I've never seen a less comic actor become known for playing comedy when in my opinion he can't....at all.

He really stinks up "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" even though he wins awards for it!

Thank you [R56] for posting that.

I'm a little surprised that it takes 6 writers to produce a six minute video, but it did make me laugh. I needed a break from pandemic anxiety.

r57 sizemeat verificata, please

It's verificatia.

Thank you, R56.

I love Monk.

I have a bit of OCD myself and that show makes me laugh.

I loved the episode where the man called him to his house, at night, and admitted he had the plague.

I fell off the sofa laughing.

The Plague? i don't remember that one but i remember the one where the client calls him to a late night meeting and reveals he is a leper and hilarity did indeed ensure.

So funny this thread is here. I just finished a binge watch of the series and was wondering if the cast might come together for a mini-series about Monk dealing with pandemic and solving a few crimes in between. Good thing I searched. It would be a good idea once studios start production once things settle.

Yeah. I can see Adams being a shrew or bordering. That was her persona on her guest appearances (flight attendant, crazy cat lady, tough sheriff).

I love Brooke Adams from Gas Food Lodging- great actress. She should have got more opportunity. So she got pissy about an order. No one is perfect. She might have had a bad day.. I have been a cunt on occasion. Haven’t we all?

Shalhoub is one of these sad cases where you have a actor who does widely varied roles and genres--so much so that seeing him is always exciting because you do not know what you are going to get.

Then they get well-paying TV and film roles. One role breaks out and that is all they do for the rest of their lives. They begin as great artists then become one-note schtich meisters.

r70: I don't think Antonio, Monk, and Mrs. Maisel's father are similar roles at all.

I do not know who Antonio is, but Monk and Mr. Maisel are both high-strung, obsessive eccentrics who cannot met the world on the world's terms.

His work with pre-Monk included Angelo in Measure for Measure, Solyoni, Figaro, Pozzo, Poins, Scoop in the Heidi Chronicles, etc.

This is a much wider range than we see him playing in film and television today.

Both, OP.

Beloved cunt.

You don't know who Antonio was, but you feel entitled to have an opinion on Shalhoub?