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Rules' producers can take inspiration from The Practice (ABC, Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.). Last spring, with the legal drama--once a top-20 hit--bleeding viewers, writer-producer David E. Kelley fired four of its stars--Dylan McDermott, Kelli Williams, Lara Flynn Boyle and Lisa Gay Hamilton (who were negotiating raises)--and started afresh. Kelley blames himself for the decline; over seven seasons, the show was mired in melodrama. "It was difficult to juxtapose a personal story line and explore relationships," he says, "while trying to show a murder and the search for a missing head...
...gamble seems to have worked. The show topped NBC's heavily touted Rob Lowe drama, The Lyon's Den, and Spader's complex, even sympathetic performance gives the show more interest than it has had in years. (A stunt casting turn by Sharon Stone helped too.) The old characters, Kelley says, "would always do the right moral thing at the end of the day. That occasioned me to start with just the opposite...
...Pitkin and Bellew—and Craig A. Kelley, their counterpart from North Cambridge—are not altogether similar, Winters says...
...Craig Kelley...
...can’t blame the people in Riverside for looking across the table and thinking ‘the city is not on our side,’” Kelley said...