E&P: 'Ally McBeal' Star to Play Conservative Pundit in New TV Series

[DeepModem Mom]

'Ally McBeal' Star to Play Conservative Pundit in New TV Series
By E&P Staff
Published: July 24, 2006

NEW YORK ABC reportedly has huge hopes for a new series to air this fall called "Brothers & Sisters," which will follow the hit "Desperate Housewives. Calista Flockhart, best known as Ally McNeal, plays a conservative newspaper pundit. Others in the high-powered cast include Patricia Wettig, Rachel Griffiths, Ron Rifkin and Sally Field.

Asked to describe the pundit, producer Ken Olin (formerly a star of “Thirty Something’) said, "She's not Ann Coulter. She's not insane," according to a story by Dave Walker of New Orleans’ Times-Picayune.

Write John Robin Baitz added, "No, I think she's a thoughtful conservative. She's ideologically, in some respects, very much in mind with the older parts of the party, the sort of Eisenhower Republican, the William Buckley conservative. She's also a humanist.

"She's not someone who is apologetic about being a conservative. But it's very, very interesting and compelling to us to try and understand this, to leave behind some of the smug presuppositions of the two coasts, . . . to look at evolving patriotism and evolving traditionalism."...

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002878132

[MADem]

1. Hmmm, I thought she was a radio type in that script

Saw an interview the other day, didn't really pay decent attention, though...

[Demit]

2. Um... "evolving traditionalism"? Interesting concept.

[Karenca]

3. Fuck that. eom

[Johonny]

4. So

the bold TV concept is to play a non-real conservative? The show would be better if she actually played an extremely unlikable Coulter like character. Playing the time of republican that doesn't get air time and print space in the real world hardly seems like interesting TV.

[MrTriumph]

5. "I think she's a thoughtful conservative". More BS TV

x

[librechik]

6. pre-emptive PUKE!!!

:puke:

before Flockhart gets to it.

I take it this is a new fantasy series...

[lpbk2713]

7. Will she be wearing a skanky black sheath dress?

And will she look like she hasn't bathed in several days?


Sounds like someone we know.

[Karenca]

8. " smug presuppositions of the two coasts"

More propaganda from the media.

[EstimatedProphet]

9. Screw you and your evolving patriotism

(You being the writers of the article, not the poster-just to clear that up first)

Fucking conservatives don't own patriotism! I'm sick of hearing about how the liberals -in this case, the 'two coasts' means liberals- are smug and unpatriotic. We get called America haters because we try to make America a better place for everyone, and don't just sit back and let an unelected megalomaniac president try to destroy the world. Meanwhile, the people whose only contribution to the discussion comes from wearing a t-shirt that says 'Sore Loserman' get touted as uberpatriots.

Is patriotism about putting magnets on your car? NO!
Is it about waving flags? NO!
Is it about taking part in the political process, by making your voice heard? YES!

[SoCalDem]

10. and we need a series about wacky conservos because?

It's not like we haven't seen enough of them already:puke:

of course, there IS a population of "worker bees" who do not watch the cable news, and just may not get to see many of them :puke::puke:

[noonwitch]

11. "She's not Ann Coulter, she's not insane" LOL!

That's a good line.