GETTING AT THE TRUTH ABOUT `BROTHERS'.Byline: -- David Kronke On paper, ``Brothers & Sisters'' looks to have everything going for it, boasting a cast that includes Sally Field Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is a two-time Academy Award winning American actress. She is also a three-time Emmy Award-winning and two-time Golden Globe Award winner who became a household name at age 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom , Calista Flockhart Calista Kay Flockhart (born on November 11, 1964) is an Emmy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American actress, primarily on soap operas and television. She is perhaps best known for playing the title character of Ally McBeal (1997 - 2002). , Rachel Griffiths, Ron Rifkin Ron Rifkin, born to a Jewish[1] family October 31, 1939, is a prolific American actor and director who is featured in numerous television shows. In 2001, his association with Touchstone Television began when he played ex-director, Arvin Sloane, in Alias and Patricia Wettig Patricia Wettig (born December 4, 1951) is an Emmy-award winning American actress and playwright. Biography Personal life Wettig, one of three sisters, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Florence Morlock and Clifford Neal Wettig, a college basketball coach. , and a top creative team, including playwright Jon Robin Baitz Jon Robin Baitz (born November 4, 1961 in Los Angeles, California) is an American playwright, screenwriter, television producer and sometime actor. The son of an executive of the Carnation Company, Baitz was raised in Brazil and South Africa before the family returned to , Marti Noxon (``Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and Ken Olin (``Alias''). On the other hand, the series is the only new show that has not been screened for critics; a couple of roles have been recast (Field is a late addition) and the tone has been retooled: all the makings of a troubled production. ``I never got the sense that we were troubled at all,'' Baitz told members of the Television Critics Association The Television Critics Association (or TCA) is a group of approximately 200 United States and Canadian journalists and columnists who cover television programming. They meet in the Los Angeles area twice a year, in January and July, in conferences known as Winter and Summer on Wednesday afternoon in Pasadena. ``It was recasting -- I never got a sense of anyone's panic. In fact, the network let us try again.'' ``We decided the temperature needed to be a little different,'' Noxon added. ``We felt the family should have a little more fun.'' Well, OK. But the producers seemed either unable or unwilling to tell reporters whether Tom Skerritt, who portrays the family's patriarch, will appear in episodes beyond the pilot. In the brief cut-down shown to critics, his character is seen collapsing into a pool; Skerritt's name doesn't appear anywhere in the show's promotional materials. It took three separate questions before Olin finally admitted that they didn't have a deal with Skerritt to appear in any more episodes. After that, a journalist whose laptop with access to the hotel's spotty wi-fi pointed out that ABC's ``Sons & Daughters'' Web site mentioned the death of the patriarch as part of its series description. You want another reason to fear something less than the best? Baitz declared, ``This family is, in some ways, America,'' and that the show is ``the TV equivalent of new journalism.'' For her part, Field said, ``If we splat See asterisk. 1. splat - Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk ("*") character (ASCII 0101010). This may derive from the "squashed-bug" appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers. 2. , I hope it's colorful. Big, bold and colorful.'' |
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