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Mandy Patinkin, Best Actor Emmy, 1995, for the role of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger Also nominated for an Emmy Award as Guest Actor in a Drama in 1999 for Chicago Hope
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Snippets"Mandy Patinkin isn't a doctor, but he plays one on TV. And his Chicago Hope co-star Adam Arkin, who plays a brain surgeon on the show, says Patinkin sometimes lets his role go to his head. Ê"Mandy has been really conscientious about learning the skills of heart surgeons and cardiothoracic surgery, and in a lot of the press he did he would say, 'I've observed so much now and even assisted a couple of times that, if I had to, I feel like there are certain procedures I could do,' " Arkin says. Ê"So inevitably, if I was following him in any kind of publicity, then people would say, 'Mandy feels he could actually perform surgery. How do you feel?' And my standard answer became, 'Well, let me put it to you this way: I feel like I could very safely do brain surgery on anyone that would allow Mandy to operate on them.' Ê"I don't feel there would be any significant loss." --Winnipeg Sun, January 16, 2000
"Patinkin made the show for the first season, with what can be easily called one of the more tortured characters ever seen on TV. Geiger was an arrogant, condescending, caustic son of a bitch that still managed to sing a song or two during his stint at CH (and you thought that Ally McBeal was the first to exploit this to its nth degree). What humanized him was the fact that his wife had just recently killed their son and daughter and was now spending time in the Hope's psychiatric ward. Then she wanted a divorce from him. Major, major sparks flew with him on board." "...brought back Patinkin's Dr. Geiger, meaner and more caustic than ever (he's the catalyst behind the now infamous "massive layoff" episode." --mustreadtv.com
"Let's hope Mandy Patinkin knows the Heimlich manoeuvre -- given all the scenery-chewing he does in the season opener of revamped CBS series Chicago Hope, he may need it. Ê Returning to the role of bombastic heart surgeon and hospital board chairman Dr. Jeffrey Geiger, Patinkin actually gets to yell, "We're going in!" before whipping out a scalpel and slicing open a code-blue patient -- in front of a group of Japanese tourists, no less! ...And having Geiger return to fire staffers in the finale was the best solution. Ê "We met with CBS and pretty much agreed that in order for Chicago Hope to come back it would have to really be reborn again, and sweeping changes would be involved," he says. "So when I sat down to write the final script of last year it just seemed very organic in bringing back Geiger. Ê "You know, if Geiger had his way, he would have fired everybody." ...Patinkin left the series after the 1994-95 season to spend more time with his family but since he won't appear in every episode, he has a lighter schedule this time. ...Geiger gives Alberghetti a classically boorish welcome, asking about her Italian heritage and cheerfully quipping that "another pizza-suckin' peasant" is just what the hospital needs. But he also displays some disarming vulnerability when he's forced to help Alberghetti perform risky surgery on a child.
" It's become a bit of a cliche to say that "Chicago Hope" began going downhill faster than Picabo Street when Mandy Patinkin scurried back to familiar waters of belting out show tunes. But then again, I love cliches. "Chicago Hope" has sucked ever since Mandy Patinkin went off the air. Patinkin was the show's emotional center, its finest actor in a cast of fine actors and by far the most interesting man in any scene he appeared in. Perhaps the show centered around him far too much, but that was only because Patinkin consistently delivered the emotionally-charged goods. And now that he's singing show tunes instead of sewing sutures, it's become painfully apparent just how uninvolving the rest of the cast of "Chicago Hope" can be. " It's become a bit of a cliche to say that "Chicago Hope" began going downhill faster than Picabo Street when Mandy Patinkin scurried back to familiar waters of belting out show tunes. But then again, I love cliches. "Chicago Hope" has sucked ever since Mandy Patinkin went off the air. Patinkin was the show's emotional center, its finest actor in a cast of fine actors and by far the most interesting man in any scene he appeared in. Perhaps the show centered around him far too much, but that was only because Patinkin consistently delivered the emotionally-charged goods. And now that he's singing show tunes instead of sewing sutures, it's become painfully apparent just how uninvolving the rest of the cast of "Chicago Hope" can be."--www.teevee.org "Here are some other lessons we've gleaned from
the season to date: "...just when the show started getting its act together in quality and ratings, it lost its best player, Mandy Patinkin. He gave Hope its heart, its brains, its adrenaline -- and won a well-deserved Emmy for it but since he was leaving, that did Hope little good. Patinkin was so important to Hope that when he does return in a guest shot, it's an event worthy of hype on my local evening news."--TV Guide "Mandy Patinkin's Dr. Geiger - who left the show as a regular but returns infrequently - even shows up, to sing and give the hallucinating Shutt angelic advice. Arkin says he and Patinkin hardly had to struggle to reprise their rhythm. "We fall into it very quickly . . . Mandy was very much a part of what launched the show and defined the show. I think he set a standard of work and dedication to the work that is still a part of the show." "--Seattle Times, October 15, 1997
A Chicago Hope soundtrack was released on November 4, 1997. Visit Sonic Images' Chicago Hope Soundtrack Web Page for further details and sample sounds. The CD contains instrumental music from the show by Mark Isham and Jeff Rona.
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