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...process, Kate is also doing a good deed for Alicia Silverstone, the actress who plays her. Clueless, a 1995 teen comedy (in which she played, yes, a romantic-softy matchmaker), and her breakthrough jailbait performances in The Crush and a trio of Aerosmith videos made her a teenage "It" girl. But a few failed movies and a teensy weight gain later, she was on track to becoming a remembrance in a VH1 It Came from the '90s special. By design or by necessity, "I got off the fast track," the actress, 26, says...
...says Star. "She is very likable, and it comes from a real place." Silverstone was drawn by Star's track record of complex female characters and the appeal of playing someone who "goes around sprinkling love dust on everybody." Indeed, you can see a parallel between beatific buttinsky Kate and Silverstone, a cheerfully proselytizing animal-rights do-gooder who eats no meat, eggs or dairy. (On the show, Kate is a vegetarian and won't wear leather...
...obstacles that modern life and career put in the way. Both are set in fantasy versions of city life--Miss Match, suitable to its tone, in a Sheryl Crow-scored Los Angeles rather than haute, edgy Manhattan. And it has Sex's astute sense of people's weirdnesses. Kate auditions a parade of lonely hearts, including a high-powered woman who treats it like a job interview: "I have extra helpings of everything the Scarecrow and the Tin Man were missing!" Miss Match could have been half as smart and still had a shot at its piece of the Bachelor...
Still, there is something potentially creepy about Miss Match's premise. When a co-worker asks Kate, "Has it ever occurred to you that some people actually enjoy being alone?", Kate responds with a swift, cheery "No." Brooking no objections, Kate is a radiantly relentless dictator of love. She's pretty, she's perky, she got her job through her rich lawyer daddy (Ryan O'Neal); we should hate her. But here is where Silverstone makes the show. Reese Witherspoon--Silverstone's successor as Hollywood's pixie of choice--has made a career of playing such characters (Election, Legally Blonde...
Kennedy School of Government Kate P. Kohler, who is married, got the bike...