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Talk With Former 'L.A. Law' Stars Susan Dey and Harry Hamlin
Aired April 18, 2002 - 10:50 ET
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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SUSAN DEY, ACTRESS: Our car broke down and it disappeared. My husband went to get help.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is that a hallucination?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I've never seen anything larger.
DEY: I'm here alone with the kids, and I don't know what's going to happen to us.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think someone was just at the window.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you see this tape, you must listen to me.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Well, you're getting a peek there at the plot behind the new thriller "Disappearance." The TBS original movie stars Harry Hamlin and Susan Dey. The last time this TV couple steamed up your television set was during the '80s and '90s during "L.A. Law," where they played legal eagles and quite the couple. Now they're back again this time as a California couple whose family trip goes on a trip and something unexpected happens.
And something unexpected happens to me. I didn't know when I came to work this morning that I was going to get to meet both Harry Hamlin and Susan Dey, but here you are in our New York bureau.
Good morning. A pleasure to meet both of you.
DEY: It's real a thrill.
HARRY HAMLIN, ACTOR: Back at you.
KAGAN: I feel like we should be queuing up the "Peaches and Herbs" to have you guys reunited once again with this television movie.
HAMLIN: Well, it's amazing. In fact, and what's most amazing about it is that we not only have this movie, but we've just fined the "L.A. Law" reunion film as well. So within a month, we're back on- screen in two different roles playing two different couples. This is kind of interesting.
KAGAN: A lot of togetherness.
Let's talk about the TBS movie first, since it is on our Superstation and it's coming up this Sunday. Basic plot, a nice normal couple from California and you go on vacation, and as we like to say, something went terribly wrong.
DEY: Terribly wrong. We wanted to check out a ghost town by the name of Weaver, and so we go there, and it's supposed to....
KAGAN: It's supposed to be in California.
DEY: The town itself is more than a ghost town. It's actually weird. You go into a restaurant and the tables are still set, and there's still food that's been sitting there for 40 years, and you go into the general store, and the clothes are still hanging there. So you can't figure out what happened here. And weird escalates into strange, which escalates into scary, which escalates into horrifying.
KAGAN: Let's look at a quick look at a clip from it right now.
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DEY: My dad used to take me to the range. I don't like guns, but I can shoot, trust me.
HAMLIN: What else don't I know?
DEY: Oh, well, lots.
I know it's our best option, but I don't like you going off. So get back fast, OK?
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: Susan, he leaves, but you have the gun.
DEY: Denial, yes. Watching that picture reminds you of so many of things we were dealing with as actors in these characters and how they kept pretending that what was happening around them wasn't happening. They kept pushing their fear away.
HAMLIN: And the we would go down in the basement, always that don't go down in the basement. For some reason, we always go. But I was always a huge fan of Rod Sterling in the "Twiight Zone," and this is like a two-hour "Twilight Zone," because it's never fully explained, and yet the fear is there all the way there. It's a quite fascinating picture, I think.
KAGAN: We can't let you go without talking about "L.A. Law" the reunion. Last we saw you -- were you guys together at the end of the series?
HAMLIN: I was very jealous. She was going out with Jimmy Smits.
DEY: God, I'm so lucky.
KAGAN: Are you bringing back the gorilla suit for the reunion.
HAMLIN: It's too moth eaten, I'm sure.
DEY: But the reunion is 10 years after the show, and we're all back, and it's kind of a slice of life 10 years later. It's not a movie about, hey, how are you been, haven't seen you in say long time. It's a real film that stands on it own.
KAGAN: "L.A. Law" and a lot of characters that a lot of us watched for a long time. Looking forward to seeing both of those. "L.A. Law" reunion is on in May.
HAMLIN: May 12th.
KAGAN: And the TBS movie on this Sunday, my information says 8:00 p.m. Eastern, 7:00 p.m. Pacific.
DEY: That's it.
Looking forward to both. Once again, a pleasure to meet both of you.
DEY: Thank you.
KAGAN: Looking forward to both movies.
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