CELEBFLASH: Bad Table?

Remember the good old days when you played one of the leads in TV's top rated medical drama, when you were the "and" in the show's title (similar to Heather Locklear's "special guest star" role on Melrose Place).

Then after 168 episodes you hang up your scrubs to produce, direct and star in your own movie, Crazy as Hell. Maybe you thought you'd get out when the going was still good, when ER was still on top and just after your NAACP Image Award win for best actor in a TV drama, hoping your career path would mimic former co-star George Clooney's upward spiral.

And then... Well, there were a couple of episodes of Without a Trace and a behind the camera stint on an episode of The Twilight Zone.

And now... Oh, dear Eriq La Salle, 44, there you are on the break.

Not exactly the best table in the house!