Word: mcbeal
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...result will also incorporate the bizarre. In fact, one of the characters will not really be a human being at all, but a doll who comes to life as a sounding board for the local witch, Tabitha Lenox (Juliet Mills). She will occasionally ride around town with "Timmy" (Ally McBeal's Josh Evans) on the handlebars of her bicycle. "I needed someone for this crazy person to talk to," Reilly explains, "and all of a sudden I got this idea. I said, 'No, no. You're being silly. Time to go and have dinner.' But I kept on coming back...
...watch TV and don't want them viewing South Park or the Playboy channel. However, not all networks and cable outlets use the ratings. (NBC, for instance, has declined to use the content label.) And programs are rated by their own producers, which is something akin to letting Ally McBeal (TV-14DS) sit on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
...describing a weekend jaunt to New York City that ends in a brutal homophobic attack. In between, Ron Eldard plays a salesman who confesses to an unseen companion in a hotel room yet another incomprehensible deed. Flockhart sits that one out. But really, is this any way for Ally McBeal to spend her summer vacation...
...Glass Menagerie) before being spirited off to Hollywood two years ago to make her TV fortune. Returning to New York theater for the first time since, she brings to life two vividly drawn, uncompromising characters, both as blinkered to the moral implications of their acts as Ally McBeal is relentlessly self-aware. The Mametesque monologues (LaBute was a playwright before directing his first feature, 1996's In the Company of Men) are a bit formulaic but somehow richer and more convincing than the occasionally forced misanthropy in his films...
This is Calista Flockhart the serious actress, not the flighty Ally McBeal, talking. She has appeared in stage readings of Eve Ensler's Necessary Targets, about Bosnian women refugees, and wants to tackle such roles as St. Joan, Miss Julie and Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera, the precursor to Cabaret. The hard part, of course, will be finding the time. Bash is running for just over a month, and the day after it finishes she'll be back in Los Angeles to start shooting the new season of Ally McBeal. "There's an intensity in the live experience...