Word: mcbeals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heard the gossip. You've seen the photos. All Hollywood is suddenly shocked to learn that Calista Flockhart, star of Fox's hit show Ally McBeal, is so thin. And we in the media are falling all over ourselves trying to figure out whether Flockhart has an eating disorder, especially now that she has denied it. Well, I'm not playing that game. If the entertainment industry really cared about sending the wrong message on body image, it wouldn't need so many size-2 celebrities in the first place...
...television, we care less about Ally McBeal's clients--however intriguing older women who fall in love with 18-year olds and guys who have a fetish for women's feet are--than for our favorite legal professional. We are, indeed, more cynically meta today than we have been in decades. Though Chicago the Musical had to take a second seat to the warm and fuzzy Oklahoma when it debuted on Broadway in the mid-1970s, the show-that-hams-it-up-because-it's-a-show won the 1997 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical...
...blaming the media forever. At some time, we're all going to get tired of thinking about a story's "spin" and come back to wonder whether there is, in fact, a story to tell. After all, even though we, the television audience, know it's ridiculous for Ally McBeal to keep hearing secrets in the law firm's bathroom, we still forgive it, for sake of unfolding the plot. Heck, it is TV, and she has to find out somehow--why not in the bathroom? At this moment, the public is more disgusted by the media's insistence...
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...
...lightly cinematic, creating a plusher experience for the viewer than is usual on TV. What really makes Felicity enjoyable, though, is that despite its requisite melodrama, it is emotionally plausible and endearing. In this it is very different from its demographic stablemates Dawson's Creek and Fox's Ally McBeal, which are dishonest to their core and as a result impossibly irritating to watch. Felicity, instead, manages to be pretty good, gooey, yearning, adolescent fun. Not bad for a first...