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A particularly RARE publicity photo from the Fox sitcom! This early cast portrait features actor Rick Rossovich, in the role that was ultimately re-cast with pre-LAW & ORDER SVU star Christopher Meloni.
(b/w) photograph featuring: Stephen Furst, Julius Carry, Rick Rossovich, Dennis Boutsikaris
Misery Loves Company aired from October 1-22, 1995 on FOX.
This short-lived comedy focused on 4 men having relationship problems. Joe ( Dennis Boutsikaris), a film professor at a local college, was having a tough time after divorcing his wife of 12 years. He had moved in with his brother, Mitch ( Christopher Meloni), a romantic swinger with little tolerance for his brother's neuroses. Joe's 2 best friends were Perry and Lewis ( Julius Carry, Stephen Furst), who hung out with him at Nicky St. Hubbins, the sports bar whose owner Nicky ( Kathe Mazur) doubled as barmaid. Perry the philosopher had been divorced so many times that the other guys thought he was an expert on marriage-some expert. Lewis was the only one currently married and he was in counseling trying to keep his troubled relationship from falling apart. Connor ( Wesley Jonathan).
A Review From The Virginian Pilot
FROM LAKE TAYLOR HIGH SCHOOL TO ``MISERY''
STEPHEN FURST, Lake Taylor High School Class of 1972, and a time traveler with the cast of ``Babylon 5,'' slips back into the 20th century Sunday night at 9:30 on Fox.
He's a co-star in the sitcom ``Misery Loves Company,'' which isn't the same show previewed for TV critics in Los Angeles three months ago.
The sitcom started out as ``Friends'' with a twist - three male buddies whose marriages recently crashed and burned. Now a fourth friend who isn't even married has been added - he's Christopher Meloni - to join Furst, Dennis Boutsikaris and Julius Carry.
And in the revised premiere, the Furst character, Lewis, is only on the brink of divorce. His therapist tells him that he has the worst marriage in the world. Furst again plays a tortured soul.
``We've decided to take the show in a new direction,'' co-creator and co-executive producer Bob Young told TV writers in Los Angeles last summer when the original version of ``Misery Loves Company'' was previewed and rejected by the Fox brass.
The TV critics were told to forget what we saw then because a new ``Misery Loves Company'' was in the works.
Come Sunday night at 9:30, it arrives on Fox. This critic liked the original much better in which Furst, Boutsikaris and Carry were three recently divorced musketeers who worshipped ESPN and ate more junk food than a 10-year-old left home alone.
It was funnier.
(Furst will advance to the year 2255 to continue to play the part of Vir, aide to the Centuari ambassador, on the syndicated science-fiction drama ``Babylon 5,'' when he isn't shooting ``Misery Loves Company.'')
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