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Apparently it is possible to be too thin in Hollywood. As evidence, we offer the travails of Ally McBeal star CALISTA FLOCKHART, who has lately been the subject of rumors suggesting she is suffering from anorexia. In the show's first season, Ally's notorious upper-thigh-grazing skirts revealed an Audrey Hepburn-like reediness. But a skeleton-hugging sheath at last month's Emmys and this season's still shorter frocks seem to indicate a frame even more devoid of substance. When Flockhart missed a day of work recently, idle minds began speculating that it was because...
...Ally McBeal," last season's hit from Fox, chronicles the daily trials of its title character, a Boston attorney and Harvard Law graduate played by Calista Flockhart...
...Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan to view 15 bikini-clad models staring into space atop their high heels. But the glitziest affair in recent months was a reading of The Vagina Monologues, a performance piece about female private parts by Eve Ensler that attracted Uma Thurman, Winona Ryder and Calista Flockhart, among others. The actresses had come to raise money to fight domestic violence, but the cause seemed lost amid the event's giddy theatrics. Featured were Marisa Tomei on the subject of pubic hair (sample line: "You cannot love a vagina unless you love hair"); Glenn Close offering an homage...
...married, in a big peony of a dress, a newspaper boss. We have no brazenly rapacious Barbara Stanwycks or Bette Davises; instead we have Monica Lewinskys and Ally McBeals, women just insecure and pesty. On the bright side, no one will ever make a career out of doing Calista Flockhart in drag...
...because Flockhart really is a fine actress and the writing can rise to a higher level, the show has its winning moments. When Ally counsels an obese man about romance, the scenes are touching and amusing too. As such scenes accumulate, a viewer senses that, as with thirtysomething and My So-Called Life, two shows that could also be precious and manipulative and that had similar attitudes and characters, there may be stages to go through: disgust, annoyance, grudging tolerance, enjoyment accompanied by self-loathing, actual enjoyment. Right now, the pain-pleasure ratio of watching Ally McBeal is tilted...