Word: veronica
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...quiet on Stage 25 of the Warner Bros. Studio in Burbank, Calif. Backstage, the bagels and breakfast makings are laid out for the cast and crew of NBC's new sitcom Veronica's Closet. But the star is nowhere to be seen. Kirstie Alley is in her trailer, squealing with laughter and slurping away on a juice concoction of white grapes and lemons. She is on Day 3 of a 40-day juice-and-fruit fast and proselytizing the cleansing merits of her diet. "Taste it!" says Alley, popping up from the sofa to pour a portion...
Alley's new series, Veronica's Closet (NBC, Thursdays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.), promises more laughs. She stars as the glamorous Veronica ("Ronnie") Chase, a lingerie mogulette saddled with a philandering husband and cheeky employees who suggest she pose for the company's ads by having her head morphed onto someone else's body. As she did on Cheers, Alley mines the insecurities behind her character and herself. "Ronnie," she admits, "is an exaggerated version of me"--right down to the weight problems and the messy public divorce. Alley separated last year from Stevenson, her husband of 13 years...
...sitcom. But can Alley really succeed where other Cheers alums have failed? Though Kelsey Grammer's Frasier is a ratings hit for NBC, Ted Danson (Sam), Rhea Perlman (Carla) and George Wendt (Norm) have all bombed in series over the past year. NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield signed up Veronica's Closet for only 13 episodes, but he notes that Alley's producers, Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman and David Crane, the creative team behind Friends, weren't just handed the precious post-Seinfeld time slot as a gift. "On other shows, producers drink wine and congratulate themselves after each take...
Ronnie Chase, owner of the lingerie house Veronica's Closet, tells millions of women how to feel sexy. Yet her response to a question about the last time she had sex is, "When did that Ferris Bueller movie come out?" Ronnie is the latest in one of TV's perennial fall lines: the expert at work who can't control life at home (cf. Newhart, Home Improvement). With writer-producers Marta Kauffman and David Crane (Friends) polishing the assembly-line gags until they're hand-tooled, and with Kirstie Alley in fine form, Veronica's Closet deserves to last...
...Cromwell's Smith is reptilian and evil, his zingers imbued with a wry voice of experience ("Don't now try being good, lad. You haven't the practice.") The over-billed Kevin Spacey does his usual slick act, but well. Kim Basinger, as a call girl supposed to resemble Veronica Lake, holds her own although she occasionally looks a little bored with her character (or maybe that...