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“Coupling” features six attractive singles
whose love and work lives are all intertwined.
Sound familiar?
With NBC’s hit “Friends” in its final season,
it’s hard not to think NBC is hoping “Coupling”
will be the next Must See TV hit.
The six single characters either were involved
with each other, are involved or most likely will
get together by the end of the season.
First, there’s Susan (Sofer), a beautiful, take-
charge woman who knows what she wants and
finds a way to get it. At one time, Susan dated
Patrick (Ferguson), a good looking guy who’s
lacking in mental capacity.
Patrick has moved on from Susan and is now
concentrating on Sally (Walger), who is Susan’s
best friend. Susan doesn’t seem to mind and even
lets Sally know that Patrick is quite skilled in the
bedroom. Sally and Patrick are both so vain they
seem like a perfect match.
Don’t feel too bad for Susan, though. She’s
got a new guy of her own, Steve (Harrington),
who’s not one bit smooth but still adorable. In
fact, Steve’s ex-girlfriend Jane (Price) doesn't
seem to be over him yet.
Jane, and only Jane, will decide when it’s time
to break up. She has a hard time accepting reality
and doesn't believe any man would not agree to
date her. She tries to win Steve back by constant
ly teasing him with her bisexual tendencies.
The last member of the sextet is Jeff
(Moynihan), Steve’s porn-watching buddy and
Susan’s perpetually nervous co-worker who blew
his big chance with her a while ago.
“Coupling” relies on sex and relationships for
most of its plot and humor. Lucky for the show,
those are popular and entertaining topics in
America today.
“Hope and Faith” stars Faith Ford and Kelly
Ripa as sisters who may have grown uptogelti
er but whose lives went in opposite directions
as adults.
Hope (Ford) settled down in the Midwest
and is a happily married, stay-at-home mom
with three kids to keep her busy. When she
goes out at night, it’s to a PTA meeting.
Faith (Kelly Ripa), on the other hand, ran
to Hollywood, missed her high school gradua
tion to try out for “Star Search,” and lived the
high life as a soap opera star.
But when her character Ashley Storm is
tragically killed off “The Sacred and the
Sinful,” Faith is without a dime to her name.
Apparently, she missed the lesson in money
management.
Faith, forced to leave her Hollywood home
and return to the Midwest, moves in with Hope
and her family. Their fairly calm suburban lives
are in for an adjustment.
Faith’s magnetic personality pulls people
into her schemes and wins the admiration of
Hope’s oldest daughter, Sydney (Nicole Paggi),
who thinks it’s cool her aunt was on TV.
Faith has a hard time making the transition
from TV to the real world, or however real i!
can be in sitcoms. She regularly brings up
things that happened to her on the soap opera
as if they were tragic events in her own life.
The ditziness is part of her charm and is
good for plenty of laughs.
Not surprisingly, Hope helps Faith mature
some, while Faith teaches Hope to loosen up a
bit. Ford and Ripa bring star power to the show
and feed off each other well to show that even
when you feel like screaming at your sister,
still love her.
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RADNOR, Pa. (AP) — Kiefer Sutherland
thinks killing off his character in “24” wouldn’t
be a bad idea.
“I feel really strongly that if you want to jar
the audience, take Jack out,” Sutherland tells
TV Guide for its Oct. 18 issue. “As much as it
would break my heart not to do this show, I
think it’s important the audience believe that at
any given moment, any cast member can go.”
Sutherland reprises his role as Jack Bauer
beginning Oct. 28 on Fox.
The show’s executive producer, Howard
Gordon, said there are no plans to kill the lead
character, “at least not yet.”
The show’s creators, Robert Cochran and
Joel Surnow, promise a big surprise early in
the season — “It’s not Jack dying, but it’s big,”
Cochran said.
Surnow is certain Sutherland was joking: “I
said, ’What, do you have a movie offer?”’
Ben Affleck and J Lo bond
over baseball playoff games
Affleck and Lopez also got a front-row view
of Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer charging
Boston pitcher Pedro Martinez, and Martinez
subsequently tossing Zimmer to the ground
Also in attendance Saturday night was NE
“Today” show host Katie Couric, whose
boyfriend is Red Sox part-owner Tom Werner
Couric, of course, was cheering for the
Sox.
Princess Diana's mother
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BOSTON (AP) — Jennifer Lopei and Ben
Affleck put their differences aside Saturday
night for the Red Sox-Yankees playoff game.
Affleck, of Cambridge, is a rabid Red Sox
fan. Lopez is a native New Yorker and prefers
the Yankees.
The couple watched the game from the front
row at Fenway Park, next to Boston’s dugout.
A plasma television installed in front of the
seats allowed them good looks at replays —
and of themselves, as the Fox cameras were
trained on them repeatedly.
NEW YORK (AP) — The mother of Princess
Diana claims in a new book that the royal fam
ily refused to let her hug her daughter’s bod;
after Diana was killed in a car crash in 1997.
Frances Shand Kydd also says Buckingham
Palace did not allow her to travel to Paris to
accompany Diana’s body back to Britain.
For Kydd, the episode brought back painful
memories of the birth of Diana’s brother John,
who died just hours after he was delivered,
“I did not see or touch or hold either of them
when they were dead,” she says. “I do ache
about it.”
In “Frances: The Remarkable Story of
Princess Diana’s Mother,” Kydd tells authors
Max Riddington and Gavan Naden that she
was proud of her family on the day of Diana’s
funeral.
“Proud of her, proud of my other daughters
who were rock-steady in their readings at the
service, and proud of my son (Charles), who
gave the ultimate tribute of brotherly love,”
she says.
Diana and her companion, Dodi Fayed, were
killed in a crash in a Paris tunnel as their
Mercedes was pursued by paparazzi.
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