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  2. Rachins and actress Joanna Frank have been married since 1978 and have a son. The couple has formed the production company Allofit Productions which has acquired books and original screenplays to develop for television and feature films. Rachins is a member of Mensa International.

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  4. Alan Rachins was born on 3 October 1942 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Showgirls (1995), L.A. Law (1986) and Dharma & Greg (1997). He has been married to Joanna Frank since 11 March 1978.

    • October 3, 1942
  5. Alan Rachins was born on 3 October 1942 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Showgirls (1995), L.A. Law (1986) and Dharma & Greg (1997). He has been married to Joanna Frank since 11 March 1978.

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    • Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  6. Happily married, Alan and Joanna have a son, Robert. The couple has formed a production company, Allofit Productions, which has acquired books and original screenplays to develop for television and feature films.

    • Composer Mike Post Wrote The Theme Music Around A Car Trunk slamming.
    • Corbin Bernsen Had Trouble Figuring Out His character.
    • Jill Eikenberry Was Battling Breast Cancer During The Show's First season.
    • Susan Dey Auditioned in An Odd place.
    • They Spent More Than $1 Million on The Sets.
    • Harry Hamlin Is Eating Something in Every Conference Room Scene.
    • Terry Louise Fisher Made Up The Venus Butterfly.
    • Boston Attorney David E. Kelley Came on as A Writer During The First season.
    • Bochco Liked to Punish His Brother-In-Law's character.
    • The Show Influenced Actual Law, For Good and bad.

    Steven Bochco told composer Mike Post that he wanted to start the opening sequence with a car trunk slamming shut. Post, who had worked with Bochco on Hill Street Blues (and also created the iconic theme music for Law & Order) wrote the L.A. Lawtheme based on that directive.

    Corbin Bernsen's first audition with Bochco in New York didn't go very well. He auditioned for the role of Michael Kuzak (which eventually went to Harry Hamlin) and was suffering from the flu. Bochco thought it was a "little disappointing" because he thought Bernsen was good-looking. The actor went to Los Angeles and caught a woman with blonde hair...

    After shooting the pilot, Jill Eikenberry—who played Ann Kelsey—was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her husband, Michael Tucker (Stuart Markowitz on the show), called Bochco to say the two couldn't do the show because of it, but Bochco assured them that Eikenberry would be off the set by 5 p.m. every day to go to UCLA for radiation treatments. Going ...

    Susan Dey read for Grace Van Owen at a grammar school picnic. (Both Dey and Bochco's children were there).

    Three sets were built for L.A. Law—including an exact replica of a Los Angeles courtroom, complete with a removable jury box and a courtroom elevator—to the tune of more than $1 million. Keeping the cast in designer duds was no cheap affair either; the wardrobe budget was about $40,000 per episode.

    "If you go back and watch the pilot as the very first conference room scene ends, I reach over and pull a sandwich toward me," Hamlin told the Los Angeles Times. "I picked it up as they were shooting my last bit. I had my mouth full of food. We shot another conference room scene, and there was a plate of croissants. I thought, 'I will make this a t...

    In the ninth episode of the series, titled "The Venus Butterfly," Stuart (Tucker) wins Ann (Eikenberry) over with his mysterious sex move, known as The Venus Butterfly. Bochco initially told Eikenberry about the idea late one night over the phone while she was visiting her mother in Wisconsin, but it was Fisher who wrote that part of the episode, w...

    While working as a lawyer in Boston, David E. Kelley wrote the movie From the Hip (1987) in his free time, which landed him an agent and caught the attention of Bochco, who hired him as a writer for L.A. Law after reading just the first 30 pages of that script. Kelley asked for a five-month leave of absence from his law firm, but L.A. Law quickly t...

    Douglas Brackman, Jr. was played by Alan Rachins, who is married to Joanna Frank, Bochco's sister (who played Brackman, Jr.'s wife, then ex-wife, Sheila on the series). In 1990, The New York Times listed some of the things poor Douglas went through on L.A. Law: It was enough that the third season was devoted to bringing Douglas "back to normalcy," ...

    In 1990, a lawyer in Miami Beach argued to an (unconvinced) judge that the jury had acquitted the doctors in his client's malpractice suit because a very similar case was a storyline in the previous night's episode of L.A. Law, where the doctor defendant had also been found free of guilt (the judge had not seen the episode). In that same New York T...

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  7. Rachins has continued to perform on stage, appearing in the world premiere of Arthur Laurents' "Attacks of the Heart" and portraying Matthew Harrison Brady in "Inherit the Wind." Personal Life Alan Rachins is married to Joanna Frank and they have one son.

  8. Significantly, his wife in the largely-improvised film was played by actress Joanna Frank, Rachins' real-world significant other and the sister of TV power player, Steven Bochco.

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