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...sort of a roll-up-your-sleeves and get-down-to-work kind of individual...He brings a very down-to-Earth perspective." - Debra Strauss, president-elect of the Illinois PTA, Washington Post...
...Starter Wife USA, Fridays, 10 p.m. E.T.; two-hour premiere Oct. 10 at 9 p.m. E.T. At last, a Gossip Girl for the old people! Reprising her role from the smash miniseries, Debra Messing is author and recent divorcée Molly Kagan, trying to keep herself and her daughter afloat in a sea of affluence populated by smarmy L.A. sharks. Predictable but pithy, Wife takes itself no more seriously than the Hollywood-haves it skewers...
...everyone hopes will not explode before the marriage is completed. Her father, played by Bill Irwin, is a pious twit, sublimely unaware of how thin and weak his family's values are when put even to the mild test this wedding's kerfuffle presents. It is nice to see Debra Winger as his ex-wife - she's been away from the movies too long - but she mostly lurks on the fringes of the action and is not permitted to develop an arresting character. But then, no one is. Everyone just behaves in what is meant to be a naturalistic manner...
...greenest of them all may be a name that's less known: Hart Bochner. Bochner co-stars in the USA Network drama The Starter Wife, featuring Will and Grace alumna Debra Messing. (To Americans of my generation, however, Bochner will always be known for directing the classic early-1990s college comedy PCU, which proved Jeremy Piven's comedy chops long before he swaggered onto the set of Entourage.) What makes Bochner different from his celebrity peers is that he's willing to do the anonymous, behind-the-scenes work to make the industry more environmentally friendly. "It can't just...
...protective lust for Audrey Hepburn. Neat plotting, chic dialogue, a funny-grotesque supporting cast and enough frissons to send an audience out spooked and happy. They don't make pictures like these anymore. Case in point: Legal Eagles. It ought to work. Robert Redford can give good suave; Debra Winger could be Audrey Hepburn (or Kate) brought down to earth. The plot ransacks honorable sources: bantering, romancing lawyers from Adam's Rib, silky threats at an art auction from North by Northwest, the murderer and his motive from Charade. The movie's Manhattan locations exploit some of the most glamorous...