Quote: Animalman said: I thought Schiff was great, but I would have assumed you'd really like Arthur Branch(played by Fred Dalton Thompson), since he's the uncompromising, take no bullshit conservative Republican DA.
He wasn't bad, but he wasn't Steven Hill/Adam Schiff.
For one thing, this is New York City. It's completely unrealistic to believe that the DA is going to be a southern republican. On the other hand, Adam Schiff, a tough old New York Jew, was pretty much what you'd expect.
Thompson a good actor, but I would have rather seen him on a show set in the south, or D.C. He just stuck out too much on L&O.
Though he was a gazillion times better than Dianne Weist.
