It was neat seeing one of DS's best "character actors" getting a chance to be in show-business again! Being out of work so long, guess he was right about being "type-casted" after the show went off the air! (Although I think I read somewhere he almost got the lead roll in Ally McBeal, but Calista Flockhart beat him out because she was thinner.) Maybe Depp can somehow provide a cameo for him in the up-coming movie.
Gerard