The Emmy Awards were celebrating. It was its 75th edition and, on the occasion of this anniversary, it organized a few reunions to the satisfaction of the audience. Lorraine Bracco and Michael Imperioli from The Sopranos, for example, gave one of the anecdotes of the night when they went out to present together with a portrait of James Gandolfini present on stage. But no one could compete with the fun, underrehearsed musical number performed by the Ally McBeal actors.
Upon returning from one of the commercial breaks, the spectators found bathrooms set up on the stage. Calista Flockhart, in front of the mirror, began to comment in a voice-over that she looked splendid in the dress she had chosen for the gala. And, suddenly, she played You are the first, the last, my everything by Barry White, one of the most iconic themes of the lawyer comedy.
His former co-stars began to emerge from the temporary toilets: Peter MacNicol, Greg Germann and Gil Bellows, who were known to the audience as John ‘Bizcochito’ Cage, Richard Fish and Billy Thomas. With a choreography as basic as it was poorly coordinated, the actors accompanied Flockhart, who had the duty of presenting the Emmy for best dramatic actor, which went to Kieran Culkin.
And, with their attitude, they vindicated the stardom of Flockhart, an actress who became part of the popular imagination and who starred in the cultural conversation between 1997 and 2002, although she never received recognition at the Emmy Awards, which nominated her for the first three seasons (Ally McBeal as a series did win the award for best comedy in 1999).
After the success of Ally McBeal, the public was reunited with Flockhart on television through Five Brothers (2006-2011), although after the end of the family drama she stopped taking her career as a priority, focusing on her life together with Harrison Ford and ruling out participating in projects that would require him to leave California or return to the world of hellish schedules.
Now, however, she is ready to return to the media spotlight with Feud: Capote vs the swans, the series produced by Ryan Murphy about writer Truman Capote’s quarrels with his friends from New York high society. It is understandable that she accepted the project. She will serve to reunite her with Jon Robin Baitz, creator of Five Brothers, and she will share a cast with Naomi Watts, Demi Moore, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Molly Ringwald and Tom Hollander.
