According to Cracked.com, Patricia Richardson, the wife/mother on TV's Home Improvement, has expressed bewilderment at Tim Allen's attempts to reboot their old series. Allen announced that everyone's on board with his idea even though he hadn't talked to Richardson about it. He claimed "the boys" wanted to do it even though the youngest son on the show, Taran Noah Smith, is no longer an actor, Jonathan Taylor Thomas isn't interested in acting--he wants to write and direct-- and, as she put it, Zachary Ty Bryan "is now a felon".
Normally, if you knew someone as an innocent child who was now struggling in his forties, you would describe their trouble with the law in more sympathetic terms, not just call him a "felon". Although he's been convicted of domestic battery and was involved in some crypto scam, so his criminality is wide-ranging and not entirely caused by emotional issues.
This is local news for me. Zachary Ty Bryan had been living here in Eugene, Oregon. It's been a couple years since I've written about it. He was arrested a couple times. I assumed he came to Oregon to flee the pandemic that was especially bad in Southern California at one point, but I don't know. He's still recognizable. I felt he wasn't taking full advantage of his position in the world. He could have been doing TV and radio commercials, local theater, zero budget movies---there's acting work everywhere. He could be to Eugene what Rutger Hauer was to Holland, the one big star in a place not known for its entertainment industry. His latest arrest for drunk driving and hit and run was in La Quinta, CA, poor devil.
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