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Ex-Laker Rick Fox goes geek on ‘The Big Bang Theory’

By Chris ErskineColumnist 
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‘The Big Bang Theory’ gets off its rerun treadmill with a new episiode Thursday featuring former Laker Rick Fox. In it, he plays an ex-boyfriend of the rather mousy Bernadette, Howard’s girlfriend. Don’t know if that’s going against type for him or for her, but it’s bound to mess with Howard’s rather fragile psyche. He still lives with his mother, after all. Until now, his biggest rival for Bernadette’s affections has been himself.

Fox has kept a steady acting career going since his screen debut in 1994 in William Friedkin’s ‘Blue Chips.’ His breakout role came on the hit HBO series “Oz,” where he played Jackson Vahue.

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Since then, Rick has appeared in over a dozen network shows. He recently played club owner Mason Davies in CW’s “Melrose Place.”

Look for more on his ‘Big Bang Theory’ appearance Thursday.

-- Chris Erskine

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Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine is a nationally known humor columnist and editor who retired from the Los Angeles Times in 2020. Previously he wrote for the Sports, Travel and Saturday sections and edited with the paper’s features staff. As an editor, he has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Times (for his graphics work on the Northridge quake and the North Hollywood bank robbery). He is best known to readers for his weekly humor pieces on life in suburban Los Angeles. His latest book, “Daditude,” released in 2018, is a collection of his favorite Times columns on fatherhood. He has written two other books, “Man of the House” and “Surviving Suburbia,” which reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. The Chicago native has also worked for papers in New Orleans and Miami.

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