Because Shields managed to play the role of a psycho stalker girlfriend without completely embarrassing herself, television writers fell all over each other in a rush to trumpet her heretofore undiscovered comic talents-as if anyone could forget the rich vein of comedy she mined in The Blue Lagoon and Brenda Starr.Īn NBC series offer followed, and so Friends begat Suddenly Susan, which begat Fired Up, which begat-God help us- Jenny. Like so much else that's wrong with American television, this pernicious trend can be blamed on Friends-in particular, the 1995 episode that featured the stunt-casting of Brooke Shields. This 'criticism by erectile response' model would seem to belittle unfairly the talent and erudition of our nation's tube reviewers, but it's the only way to explain the inexplicable praise heaped on such deplorable shows as Dharma and Greg, Suddenly Susan and Ally McBeal. So why, then, do so many TV writers persist in turning their articles into thinly veiled mash notes to their favorite on-air Hot Young Thing? They're gorgeous, they're talented-so why are the single white females of prime-time comedy so bad?ĮUROPA MAY HAVE let herself be carried off by a bull, and supermodels may marry hideously ugly rock stars, but this sad fact remains: to my knowledge, no television critic has ever successfully dated a gorgeous young TV starlet.

Thinking Man's Sewer Mouth: Calista Flockhart knows how to talk dirty and influence horny TV critics on 'Ally McBeal.'

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