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| As the unsung heroes of NBC`s Will & Grace, ABC`s Sports Night, and Fox`s Ally McBeal, Sean Hayes, Sabrina Lloyd and Lucy Liu share one common denominator: When they appear on screen it`s damn near impossible to pay attention to anything else. |
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| Consider Hay`s hilarious Jack McFarland, a diva of the highest order. Jack views employment in the same way a rodeo rider views a bull - if push comes to shove he`ll take it on, but he neither expects nor desires to stay int the position for any length of time. Or Lloyd`s Natalie Hurley, the associate producer made of spun sugar and steel. She`s a waif with the devil in her eye - a fragile little thing who proves to be quite capable of bringing down a pro football star or of feeling up a lovesick co-worker as the situation demands. Then there is Liu`s ferocious portrait of Ling Woo, the wildly litigious (she sued a guy for having dirty thoughts) tantrum-throwing, frog-eating dominatrix of a client - a deeply flawed Hepburn to Greg Germann`s bygone-riddled Tracy. |
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| To call Hayes, Lloyd and Liu supporting players just doesn`t do them justice. They are comic knights who move indirectly but with dazzling results, transforming a simple line, a raucous dance, a frosty look into seduction - pure and funny. |
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| SEAN HAYES (deleted) |
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| The Anti-Rhoda: “Natalie could have been just another quirky sidekick, but instead her character is constantly evolving. The writers know that people go through different experiences and they learn from them and they grow…or they don`t.” |
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| From Mount Dora, Florida to a sitcom in four easy steps - more or less: “I came to Manhattan when I was eighteen, cocktail-waitressed at The Red Zone, checked coats at Heartbreak, tended bar at Kenny`s Castaways and The Bitter End. I`d get home exhausted at 4am.” |
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| A Solid argument for not going to law school: “My mother gave me faith in myself. She said 'If you want to be an actress, you go get 'em.`” |
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| To say nothing of those honey-roasted nuts: “I find flying sort of spiritual. I love looking down at the world below. It can be very solitary but fortunately I get along quite well with myself.” |
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| LUCY LIU (deleted) |
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