Richard Kind Looks Back on "Spin City"

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Richard Kind appeared in every episode as press secretary Paul Lassiter on this ABC sitcom, which debuted in 1996 with Michael J. Fox starring as deputy mayor Mike Flaherty.

“I did four years with Michael, who I adored. Still adore. I still keep in touch. He’s just one of the most marvelous men… if you’ve seen the documentary they did on him [Apple TV+’s Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie], it showed how brave, how funny, how talented, how smart [he is]… He’s everything you want to be, except shorter.”




When Fox had to leave the series after Season 4 due to complications from his Parkinson’s disease, Charlie Sheen took over as new deputy mayor Charlie Crawford.

“I’m gonna tell you something, and this is going to be antithetical to the Charlie that you know, or that is now famous: Charlie was a true gentleman. He was faithful to the job. He had [co-creator] Gary David Goldberg as a father figure, which is something that he really, really cherishes. He came to work first the first day, lines memorized. He was grateful, always on time, doing his work. He never flubbed lines. He never cracked up. He was a consummate, consummate professional. Great, wily sense of humor. And I adored Charlie in those days.

I will also tell you: He definitely did not do drugs during those years. Definitely. Gary would have been very upset, and he did not want to upset Gary. Gary was truly his father figure, and I have had those in my life, professionally: those who you don’t want to disappoint. He lived to show Gary that he was good. It was unbelievable. It’s almost sad, when you think of what happened. He was like Mike Tyson was with his trainer, Cus D’Amato. When Cus D’Amato died, Mike Tyson just crumbled. The same was true with Gary.”

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