Yeah, it was Taraji P. Henson who portrayed the character of Whitney Rome on Boston Legal TV show. The lady is also known for her brilliant performance on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as the mother of Brad Pitt. And as of now, she would be seen on ‘Karate Kid’ portraying a motherly character once again. This time, we would see her playing the mother of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith’s son Jaden in the remake of The Karate Kid. Her character on the movie is named Sherry, a single mother who would have to move to China along with her son in order to keep her job. While talking to MTV News, Taraji said “I’m off to Beijing [soon] to work on a film; they’re remaking The Karate Kid”.
The original Karate Kid movie was released in 1984. Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita and Elisabeth Shue portrayed the leading characters. The movie was a big hit and was followed by animated spin-offs and three movie sequels. Well, fans are sure that her appearance on the new movie would help Taraji to make fans crazy once again. Her brilliant performance on Boston Legal is still in the minds of the fans and can never be forgotten. The lady did a good job on series and received a huge response from fans throughout the world. And as of now, fans are expecting more from her.
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Taraji P. Henson, who played Whitney Rome on Boston Legal and most recently as Brad Pitt’s mother in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, will soon take on yet another motherly role. This time, the BET Best Actress winner will be playing the mother of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith’s son Jaden in the remake of The Karate Kid.
“I’m off to Beijing [soon] to work on a film,” actress Taraji P. Henson revealed to MTV News. “They’re remaking The Karate Kid.”
The original Karate Kid is a 1984 film starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita and Elisabeth Shue. Upon its first theatrical release, it became a commercial success and has retained its popular following, spawning a short-lived animated series spin-off and three movie sequels.
The remake of the ’80s classic is reportedly called Kung Fu Kid, though Henson referred to the film by its original title. Will Smith, who serves as producer to the project, has cast his real life son and Pursuit of Happyness co-star in the role originally played by Macchio, as well as action star Jackie Chan.
“Jaden Smith — Will and Jada’s son — is playing the karate kid. I’m playing his mom,” Taraji P. Henson explained. “And Jackie Chan is playing Mr. Miyagi.”
According to reports, Henson’s character is a single mother named Sherry who is forced to move with her son to China in order to keep her job.
Aside from Boston Legal, Taraji P. Henson has appeared on various TV series, including Eli Stone, CSI, The Division and Smart Guy. In the silver screen, she is also credited for her roles in The Family that Preys, Not Easily Broken, and Hustle & Flow. At present, she’s working on the comedy Date Night starring 30 Rock star Tina Fey and The Office actor Steve Carell.
Most of the final episodes of The Practice were focused on introducing the new characters from Crane, Poole & Schmidt in preparation for Boston Legal’s launch. Thus, the story of Boston Legal can be said to begin with the episode of The Practice in which Eugene Young and Jimmy Berluti of Young, Frutt & Berluti decided to fire Alan Shore without consulting Ellenor Frutt, beginning a story arc of several episodes. They give Alan a severance package of only fifteen thousand dollars, even though Alan has brought in over nine million dollars of revenue to the firm. Tara Wilson gets fired for her loyalty to Alan, and Alan goes to Crane, Poole & Schmidt to represent him in the matter, thinking he has a claim under Massachusetts law to take over Young, Frutt & Berluti. Denny Crane, senior and founding partner of Crane, Poole & Schmidt, takes an interest in the case and even argues at the resulting trial, cross-examining Young. During this period, Ellenor also has a run-in with Hannah Rose (Rebecca De Mornay), a partner at Crane, Poole & Schmidt, whom Ellenor ends up seriously injuring when they fight over Hannah’s condescending remarks to Ellenor. The character of Hannah Rose was dropped prior to the Boston Legal pilot’s being filmed.
The jury awards Alan the millions of dollars of revenue he brought in to Young, Frutt & Berluti but does not order the firm to rehire him, so Denny hires Alan at his firm. After Young is appointed a judge, his first case (in the final episode of The Practice) happens to be with Alan for the defense, making Young wonder if Alan judge-shopped (this opened the door for Steve Harris to guest-star on Boston Legal as a judge, although in the end no starring Practice characters made any guest appearances on Boston Legal), though many actors and actresses who guest starred in The Practice have contributed to Boston Legal, taking on roles of a different character. Examples include Rene Auberjonois, John Larroquette and Christian Clemenson. One interesting fact is that Anthony Heald, who guest starred in both shows, took on the characters of Judge Harvey Cooper in Boston Legal and of Judge Wallace Cooper in The Practice, although both are considered the same character.
“Boston Legal” ends its five-season run in a two-hour finale that finds Crane Poole & Schmidt in dire financial straits - possibly forcing the firm to find a buyer. And Alan Shore heads to the Supreme Court to persuade them to let Denny Crane have access to a non-FDA approved drug that could slow down his rapidly progressing Alzheimer’s. Meanwhile, Shirley Schmidt and Carl Sack plan their wedding, and Denny poses an important question to Alan. (Part 1)
Director- David E. Kelley, Susan Dickes, Lauren MacKenzie
You know what I think of when I think of Boston Legal? I think of courts and trials. I think of judges and juries. However, there was no court case tonight. There may have been a bunch of judges and a jury, but that’s only because there was a friend-filled Thanksgiving dinner at Shirley Schmidt’s.
That’s right, there was no court case. Instead, with just a few episodes left in the series, we learned that Crane, Poole, and Schmidt was going broke. Belly up. Bankrupt. What could they do (not that they all knew, but go with me)? They all celebrated Thanksgiving together. All the usual suspects were there, and even Melvin Palmer, Edwin Poole, and Poole’s new foster child showed.
I have to say, Shirley has quite the digs, not that I would have expected any less. There really wasn’t a lot of furniture in the place, which I thought odd, but maybe Shirley is more of a minimalist than I pictured her to be. Either that or she sold everything in order to help keep the firm afloat. Nah… that couldn’t be it. Maybe she had just broken everything as part of her case of nerves hosting a party. Yup, that seems more likely.
The dinner itself was a hoot. It was a hoot before it even began. Alan wanted to say grace, but Denny objected when Alan instantly invoked God (Alan not believing in Denny’s version of God), and grace disappeared. Then, as the food was starting to be passed, Alan said something about the firm’s systemic racism (it came up due to an insensitive remark Denny made about Poole’s African-American ward). Alan then ranted, raved, and spouted facts as though he were delivering a closing.
Shirley booted him from the house, or at least she should have booted him. She tried to boot him. She asked him to leave, but Carl didn’t let her carry out the order. Looking at Shirley you could just tell that she was itching to let everyone know that the firm was going under.
Edwin went so far, when asked by Alan what was going on with him, to refer to his “economic Armageddon.” Shirley compounded Edwin’s semi-bean spilling by referring to that as a secret, and naturally Alan wanted in. And that is where things went bad. Very bad.
Over the course of the next few minutes Jerry went off on Katie, saying things it would be difficult to take back, and then Denny forgot that it was Thanksgiving. He thought it was his birthday and that he and Shirley were, perhaps, still together.
I ask you, do we really need that many possible storyline finales thrown into this episode, and did those two particular ones have to come back to back? The show has known for an awfully long time that this abbreviated season would be it for them, they didn’t have to cram everything into one holiday turkey of an episode.
Maybe it wasn’t quite that bad, but at that moment it certainly felt like it.
In the scenes that followed the show tried to take bits and pieces of those moments back. Denny minimized his issue, and Alan said that it was unlikely that Denny would develop a serious problem from his mad cow before dying of old age. They weren’t minimizing the problem so much as putting it into perspective. Jerry, as we knew he would, apologized to Katie. He even announced his love for her. She was taken aback by that. Seriously. I kid you not, she didn’t realize how Jerry felt about her. Do you think she was just too close to the issue?
So, with nothing better to do, they all went back to the table and it took about two seconds for Denny to point out that Edwin, being mentally unbalanced, ought not be allowed by the government to raise a child. Edwin got frustrated and hinted at the bankruptcy again. Then Shirley got all sentimental about this being her first dinner without her father, she got up from the table (again) and Edwin finally let the bankruptcy cat out of the bag.
Alan was more than a little perturbed. You can understand why, the man is, after all, a partner in the firm, but he seemed more perturbed than Denny who ought to have been pissed at never having been informed. Eventually Denny did get pissed, but he seemed just as angry that Carl was dating Shirley as he was that the firm he had put his blood, sweat, and tears into was tanking. It took Carl’s revealing an engagement ring to Denny to shut him up.
Well, that at least explained why Carl was so moody about not having the quiet evening at home with Shirley that he had hoped for. By that point in the show, Carl had decided he wasn’t going to pop the question, the timing wasn’t really great, but Alan, Denny, and Edwin all suggested that he do it anyway. They wanted him to be happy which showed how much of a family the folks at the firm are. I don’t think that it was really appropriate for Denny to show Shirley the ring and propose (with some help from Alan) on Carl’s behalf, but it was sort of sweet.
And there the episode ended.
Oh come on, Boston Legal doesn’t do that sort of thing. She said “yes,” and was all happy. Dessert was then served and everyone was happy. I guess they forgot the firm was going under. Either that or Alan’s closing speech during dessert put them all to sleep.
Alan and Denny did end up on the balcony back at the firm after dinner, which I liked, but even that conversation (which revolved mostly around Denny’s illness) didn’t do much to save an episode that could have been better. I like the idea behind this episode – the firm’s Thanksgiving dinner, I just would have done it differently. I don’t know how, but I would have.
That is, of course, the question of the week – if you were doing a Crane, Poole, and Schmidt Thanksgiving, would you have done it this way? I think maybe they needed some sort of kangaroo court setup at Shirley’s.
Shirley’s intimate Thanksgiving get-together with Carl turns into a dysfunctional family affair when she invites Alan, Denny, Jerry, and Katie — as well as emotionally unstable law partner Edwin Poole (Larry Miller) and his six-year-old foster son, who tried to mug her — to join them in the feast.
Written by: Lawrence Broch & David E. Kelley Directed by: Bob Yannetti
Denny Crane and Carl Sack head to Virginia to defend a corrections officer on murder charges for shooting a death row inmate out of mercy when the execution, via lethal injection, went awry.
Meanwhile, Alan Shore tries to heat things up with Shirley Schmidt while they work together to help Martha Headly, who claims she was fired for voting for John McCain for President.
Come meet the newborn which is Season 5 Episode 8, which its parent has not yet named. For now it’s being called Roe, but when the title becomes official, we’ll update this thread.
There’s lots of fodder here – a couple of quick references that, by airtime, we’ll look back on as shoutouts to the summer of ‘08; some slightly recycled storylines and even dialogue (I’m sure in the spirit of being green), but some good stuff nonetheless. When I saw that this was going to be another episode about abortion my heart kind of sank because….really….do we need to hash through that worn out topic again? (And pleased to find out even Denny agrees with me.) But after sifting through the intel, I think there’s some good stuff here, and the topic is handled a heckuva lot more thoughtfully than it was in Roe vs. Wade: The Musical (an ep I pretty much detested). So there’s that.
Production Company- Fox TV, Dick Clark, David E. Kelley Prod.
Cast and Crew
Director- Mike Listo
Screenwriter- David E. Kelley, Corinne Brinkerhoff
Main Cast
James Spader as Alan Shore
John Larroquette
Christian Clemenson
Candice Bergen as Shirley Schmidt
William Shatner
Gary Anthony Williams
Tara Summers
Saffron Burrows
Taraji Henson
Additional Cast
Grainger Hines
Synopsis
Denny and Alan visit a Dude Ranch in Utah, but find themselves in trouble with their tour group and the local authorities, including Melvin Palmer. Back in Boston, Shirley defends Catherine Piper after she unintentionally blows up her doctor when she sets his office on fire in revenge for prescribing her drugs that gave her a heart attack.
