Debra Messing To Star In Will & Grace 2, Basically
The new hour-long NBC drama Debra Messing has signed on to will — surprise, surprise — have her starring opposite a gay character. Only Smash one won’t be an uptight white collar attorney: Messing’s Julia will play a Broadway lyricist tasked with bringing a Marilyn Monroe=like musical to the stage, with gay composer Tom playing the foil. So far it’s just in the pilot stage, though with Steven Spielberg producing, it’s already got a leg up. Picture lots of big theatrical numbers, like Glee, but even more diva-y. (Okay, don’t tell anyone, but I’m cautiously thrilled to see where this goes.)
Other than it’s Debra Messing and a gay guy, this sounds nothing like Will and Grace. This is an hour-long drama and W&G was a classic half-hour multi-camera sitcom.
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1. I’d've put a comma after “Only” in “Only Smash…won’t be.”
2. Typo: “one” shouldn’t be there, after “Only Smash….”
3. I’d hyphenate “white collar.”
4. “Marilyn Monroe=like”? :)
5. Comma after “So far.”
Maybe others I missed….
Can I get a gold star, Mr. Hans? Mommy would be so proud.
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I was just a wee lass, but I have to say Will & Grace was total crap….just my opinion, based on the reruns that I have seen on Lifetime….Jack and the drunk lady were the only funny ones….
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@kayla: If you had been older you wouldn’t have liked it any better. If you were a gay man you’d despise Jack because he was a despicable stereotype who reinforced every negative stereotype you can think of.
As for Ms. Messing, the only worse actor I’ve seen on TV was Mr. Edm
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@justiceontherocks: Can you tell me what the drunk lady’s name is please!
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@kayla: It’s ________(Karen?) Mulally. Or something. *shrug* I could google it but….
How old are you, Kayla? I’m getting a 15 or 16-year-old-ish vibe; not sure why. Maybe I saw you post something once about your older brother…. That’s great to have young girls on here with us!
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@justiceontherocks: Will & Grace is an easy target. It was pretty ground breaking and had at least 4 fantastic seasons IMHO….it did, however, have a few seasons that did NOT work so I’m with you there:)
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I never thought Debra Messing was a very good actor (her comic timing was all kinds of wrong & she seriously overacted) but Megan Mullaly (sp?) as Karen Walker was great. Shelly Morrison as the maid Rosario was very good too.
I hope Messing gets a chance to play a different kind of character; but I bet Spielberg wouldn’t have picked her unless she could play the part.
Will & Grace helped a lot of people in my parents’ generation to see gay men as fully human. I think that the sterotypes were overdone, but it was trail-setting in a lot of ways, for its time.
@Kayla, I wish we had more people like you in the world and here on the site. You do bring a lot of enthusiasm & also a perspective we don’t see that often. Glad to have a fierce str8 ally here, and a francophone as well!
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For fuck sake people it was a stupid TV show. It was funny and forgettable. Why does everythign have to uplift, educate or promote? Calm the fuck down, lighten up and get over yourselves.
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Megan Mullally played Karen on Will and Grace (which is the ‘drunk lady’ you guys are referring to).
Megan made that show, hands down. Of the era of Patsy Stone-esque boozehounds, her only competition is Wendie Malick; ‘Just Shoot Me’s Nina Van Horn.
As for Debra Messing, honestly I could take her or leave her. Definately a case of taking the good with the bad, as noted above.
We should all spare a thought for Eric McCormack though, pretty sure he hasn’t landed steady work since Will & Grace. I mean I kind of get it, but he did a noble job of portraying a normal (if not a little neurotic) gay man during a christian heavy new millenium.
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Now, class, can you find the three errors in this post? I think you can.