If possible, she's about 1/2 Ann Coulter.
Posted on 07/24/2006 1:50:42 PM PDT by Uncledave
'Ally McBeal' Star to Play Conservative Pundit in New TV Series
By E&P Staff
Published: July 24, 2006 11:55 AM ET
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" on the schedule. Calista Flockhart, best known as Ally McBeal, plays a conservative radio host turned TV pundit. Others in the high-powered cast include Patricia Wettig, Rachel Griffiths, Ron Rifkin and Sally Field.
Flockhart recently explained, "I really want to go back to work. It just seemed like the perfect time and the perfect project."
Asked to describe the pundit, producer Ken Olin (formerly a star of “Thirty Something’) said, "She's not Ann Coulter. She's not insane."
Writer Jon 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," he said, according to an article by Dave Walker of New Orleans’ Times-Picayune.
"For years and years, the left has looked at the right in complete incomprehension and felt, 'We just can't connect.' And maybe there's an effort in the show to try and bridge that in some way.”
Sally Field plays Flockhart’s mother.
Yay, another show to ignore
They couldn't sell Hillary with "Commander in Chief". I guess next up is the attempt to discredit conservative commentators.
In related news, Pat Bunchanon will play an orthodox rabbi in the series.
Nothing like getting an anorexic leftist moonbat to play a "conservative pundit".
If possible, she's about 1/2 Ann Coulter.
Oh, darn. I wish I hadn't cancelled my cable. < s>
Not gonna fly. She's gonna be a Christopher Shays, Nelson Rockefeller Republican. That's not where conservatism is today.
Patricia Wettig? Wasn't she on the execrable "thirtysomething"?
I'm pretty sure Ken Olin was.
For the record, "Patricia Wettig, Rachel Griffiths, Ron Rifkin and Sally Field" do not constitute a "high-powered cast."
Ah, the "Gorillas in the Mist" or "Conservatives in the Mist" syndrome. (Hat tip: Jonah Goldberg)
Is she conservative, anybody know?
Why can't they use an actress who actually has a conservative lean such as Janine Turner or Angie Harmon?
Half of Anne is getting pretty darn skinny, you would have to tie her legs into knots to even make knees...
I was waiting for Lucy Liu to play that exotic dancer giving Pissant lapdances in a new TV series.
William Buckley's rise was in opposition to the sort of country-club "tax collector of the welfare state"-type of Eisenhower "conservatism".
Flockhart is too heavy to play the part. She's really chunky around the hips and thighs.
She needs to go on a strenuous workout and diet routine, for maybe forty or fifty pounds. ( -;
Another program to avoid.
"Calista Flockhart, best known as Ally McBeal, plays a conservative radio host turned TV pundit."
Eat something, Ann, and eat it quick ... they're gunning for you, lol.
I'm not a big fan of Sally Field but she has some 'A' list movies in her filmography, not to mention her being a solid performer (not counting her earlier TV roles).
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