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...then there's the challenge of creating a second successful character while the public is still holding on to the last one, not to mention seeing her or him nightly on syndicated reruns. Louis-Dreyfus and Alexander made fun of exactly that situation on recent episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, the HBO sitcom made by and starring Seinfeld co-creator Larry David. In one scene, Louis-Dreyfus and David, playing themselves, pitch a show called I'm Not Evelyn, about an actress who can't get work because she's pigeonholed as the character she used to play. Louis-Dreyfus...
Zucker may be trying to overcome having given Emeril Lagasse a sitcom, but Louis-Dreyfus has to deal with the expectations that come from having been in the most successful show of the past decade. The expectations have led to articles about the Seinfeld Curse--which has been blamed for the quick demise of both The Michael Richards Show in the fall 2000 season and this season's Jason Alexander bomb, Bob Patterson. But 0 for 2 in the world of sitcoms is actually about right. The vast majority of shows don't make it past one season. Louis-Dreyfus...
Hall, whose TV writing credits include Brooklyn Bridge and his own series, The Single Guy, came up with the idea for their real-time show because he and Louis-Dreyfus often wondered what it would be like to invisibly follow waiters and salesclerks around for half an hour to get an intimate view of what their lives were like. "I wrote it as an exercise--just for fun," he says. Writing in real time, he adds, is easier than he thought it would be: "It's like a haiku or a sonnet. The rules...
...since the networks now run more than eight minutes of commercials in their expensive prime-time slots. "The network didn't want to point that out," Hall says. Unlike Fox's real-time thriller 24, whose pace is quickened by several intersecting stories (and which neither Hall nor Louis-Dreyfus has seen yet), Ellie feels a little slow, and the dearth of standard sitcom jokes makes it seem less funny than you might expect. Much of its humor is physical comedy, since watching someone in real time means devoting a lot of time to watching Ellie walk, get dressed...
...cast, especially Daily Show correspondent Steve Carell as her ex-boyfriend, is talented, but the show is definitely Louis-Dreyfus'. She even gets to sing on each episode, an activity she indulges in offscreen as well. For Christmas, she, Hall and five of their friends went caroling in their Santa Monica neighborhood. "No one was particularly interested," Louis-Dreyfus confesses. "It was a pathetic display of Christmas cheer. I felt like the biggest a__hole." Even so, her voice is surprisingly good, and her closing torch song is the best part of the pilot...