Anne Heche Doing "Ally"
Anne Heche's latest choice is Ally McBeal.
The equal-opportunity lover has signed on to guest star in Calista Flockhart's quirky Fox series, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Her three-episode story arc will air during November sweeps.
Heche will reportedly play a high-maintenance client seeking legal aid (we presume) from John Cage, played by Peter MacNicol. A Fox rep describes Heche's gig as a "challenging comedic role."
David E. Kelley's legal dramedy appears to be even more eager than Heche to make titillating moves to attract attention. With Flockhart's short skirts pass?, the dancing baby bounced and same-sex smooches now almost de rigueur on prime-time programming, the producers now seem to be going out of their way to cast celebs who bring along a lot of baggage. Heche is not the first tabloid headliner to sign on this season.
Ex-jailbird Robert Downey Jr., will be seen, straight from his latest lockdown rehab, as Ally's new love interest when the fourth season of the once very hot show premieres Monday night (9 p.m. ET/PT) following the heavily hyped debut of Kelley?s new teen drama Boston Public.
Heche's gal-pal days with Ellen DeGeneres may be over but she remains grist for the gossip mill. Since her strange walkabout in Fresno following that split (no doubt to be more fully explained in her planned autobiography), she's been linked with a new lover, who is, reportedly, a cameraman. She's also been in Canada filming John Q, an emergency-room hostage drama, with Denzel Washington (who, when asked about his costar's state of mind, told E! Online, "She seems all right to me").
Heche is no stranger to television. Although she's achieved star billing in movies like the remake of the classic thriller Psycho, the castaway romance Six Days, Seven Nights and the political satire Wag the Dog, she was once a soap-opera actress. A decade ago she won a Daytime Emmy as Outstanding Younger Actress for playing evil twins in Another World.
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