Habe einen kleinen Zeitungsartikel zu Vega$ gefunden, der bisher im Thread noch fehlte:
Da er nur kaum bis schlecht lesbar ist, reiche ich hier den Text nach (auf der Seite kann man die Texte der Zeitungsberichte markieren, finde ich recht nützlich):
NEW YORK (AP) - There were some things about the Dan Tanna part in ABC's Vega$ that didn't appeal to Robert Urich "This guy was a fast-liver, a
character 1 didn't find attractive," Urich recalls a year later, "and I was looking for something with a little charm to it. something I could expand and develop
i said, 'OK, I'll read for the part, but I want to write my own screen test". With a go-ahead from the series' producers, Urich put together a three page monologue for the audition, which he read along with a bit of the "Vega$" script "I kind of explained who I was and what I wanted to do with the part," Urich remembers.
"They took the tape to Fred Silverman (at the time, president of ABC Entertainment) and he said, That's the man for the part.'"It's made a real difference
to me," Urich says of the selfstyled screen test. "It proves you can make your breaks, and It's a lesson that I'm going to carry a long way." "Vega$" with the dollar sign
got off to a good start in the fall with a lead-in from "Charlie's Angels," slumped a bit and has picked up recently in the ratings. The show is broadcast
Wednesdays at 10 p.m. EST. Dan Tanna is a private eye - in ABC's conception "a tough, principled investigator who aces peril with humor and lets
the chips fall where they may." The series is set, obviously, in Las Vegas, once more, belongs to ABC - "that sizzles with excitement, glamor, action and beautiful women." Burt Reynolds - like Urich, an alumnus of Florida Slate University - was instrumental in bringing the young actor to Hollywood. Reynolds saw Urich in "The Rainmaker" at Chicago's Ivanhoe Theater, and pursuaded his own agent to fly to the Midwest to see the actor Reynolds agent signed Urich
and brought him to Hollywood, where he soon was making guest appearances in shows like "Marcus Welby, M.D.." "Owen
Marshall," "The FBI" and "Kung Fu." He made his movie debut in 1973 in "Magnum Force."
Urich had a part in the shortlived "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" sitcom, and was in ABC's "SWAT" police series for two years. He recently signed a threepicture contract with ABC, and the announcement, he says, unleashed a flood of scripts. "Some you cant get past Page 3. Others have some merit." Playing the lead in a successful
series like "Vega$" has its glamorous side, obviously, but Bob Urich is a man looking for more from his work. "I'll tell you what's tough about doing 'Vega$.' It follows 'Charlie's Angels,' and people right away think it's the same kind of show. A lot of people thought I'd be doing male cheesecake. "You're at a disadvantage if
you want people to take you seriously as an artist. I'm constantly battling that, and I'm constantly battling the scripts they send down."
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Ich fand es sehr lesenswert, Bob wieder mit sehr ehrlichen Aussagen und interessanten Infos. Ich kann mir gut vorstellen das viele Fernsehzuschauer in den Staaten damals gedacht haben, die Serie wäre so ähnlich wie die Drei Engel von Charlie.
Die letzten zwei Sätze zeigen einmal wieder deutlich wie schwer es für einen Schauspieler ist, ernst genommen zu werden und dass man dabei als Künstler im Nachteil ist, glaube ich auch.