An excellent Marshall Fine profile of “Rescue Me” star Denis Leary in this week’s New York Observer reminds us that the man who was wasted on the big screen in movies like “Operation Dumbo Drop” (although superb in the underrated “The Ref,” which was just too hard to explain in a 30-second commercial) is doing just fine on TV, where he can get away with almost anything. Says Leary, “Most movie scripts suck and they’re all about the money. And I don’t need the money. At this point, I’ve got the reputation: You can call him, but he ain’t gonna do it.” If movies could pare down their budgets to the point where they were satisfied with the size of the audience that “Rescue Me”–essentially a 40 minute weekly movie–draws on FX, they would be vastly improved, but aiming for the middle of the middle yields firefighting movies like “Backdraft.” I’ve posted a review of the tangled and hilarious first three episodes of the fourth season of “Rescue Me” over at my blog, www.kylesmithonline.com. “Rescue Me” fans, by the way, should not miss “The Job,” Leary’s rude and bitterly funny ABC series about cops, which lasted for a handful of classic episodes before getting the ax.