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...Ally McBeal, she's so cute you sometimes want to throttle her. On the New York stage just now--in a 35-min. monologue, the first of three short plays by filmmaker Neil LaBute titled Bash--she plays a woman who confesses to a horrific crime, yet by the end you want to give her a sympathetic hug. Sitting at a starkly lit table, apparently in a police station, Calista Flockhart doesn't take long to shed her Ally affectations. Talking in a flat Midwestern twang, she recounts with grueling matter-of-factness how she was seduced by a teacher...
...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...
...chatting and eating and television watching and, most of all, talking about writing. On the other hand, corporate lawyers, despite all their negative traits, are pretty efficient. That's the only plausible explanation for how David Kelley--a former lawyer and the creator of Chicago Hope, Ally McBeal, The Practice, this fall's Snoops, an additional new half-hour version of Ally and two upcoming feature films, Lake Placid and Mystery, Alaska--is able to write the great majority of the scripts for his projects. Joyce Carol Oates, I still can't figure...
...even though he'll have five shows on television, the new Ally won't have any new material. In a move never attempted by network television, Fox is going to "repurpose" previously aired episodes of Ally McBeal. Kelley will cut them down to half an hour centered on the comedy storylines and run them as a new, primetime series. He got the idea a month ago, when he was struggling to get his popular drama into the syndication market, where sitcoms do much better. "I have to admit, it's probably the first time in my life I've ever...
...KISS OF DEATH] Heather Locklear's hemlines upstaged by Ally McBeal's even higher ones in September...