Dean Begley

I don't have a strong feeling about this casting choice, nor have I ever had much of an opinion about Ed Begley, Jr. I'm glad to see that they are creating a significant role for the dean of Hearst, and I hope there will be other developed "adult" characters there. Michael McKean would have been nice, though for a while I might have had a tendency to think "It's Michael McKean" whenever he appeared on screen, a distraction. I appreciate the marketing value of adding known actors, but I also relish seeing an unknown do a brilliant job, as Duane Daniels did in the role of Van Clemmons.

I do have one question after looking over Begley's career on IMDB. How is it that he portrayed "Dr. Victor Ehrlich" in Homicide: The Movie when the final episode of St. Elsewhere revealed that character and the show's whole universe to be a figment of some kid's imagination?