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Calista Kay Flockhart (born November 11, 1964) is an American actress who is primarily recognized for her work in television. She is best known for playing the title character in the Fox comedy-drama series Ally McBeal for which she won a Golden Globe Award. She starred as Kitty Walker McCallister on the ABC drama, Brothers & Sisters. Flockhart is the wife of actor Harrison Ford.
Flockhart was born in Freeport, Illinois, the daughter of Kay, a teacher of English, and Ronald Flockhart, an executive for Kraft Foods. Her parents are retired and live in Morristown, Tennessee. She has one older brother, Gary. Her mother, Kay Calista, reversed her own first and middle names in naming her Calista Kay. Calista also had a great-grandmother named "Calista".
Because her father's job required the family to move often, Flockhart and her brother grew up in several places including Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Norwich, New York. As a child, she wrote a play called Toyland in which she performed to a small audience at a dinner party.
Ally McBeal is an American legal dramedy series which aired on the Fox network from 1997 to 2002. The series was created by David E. Kelley, who also served as the executive producer, along with Bill D'Elia. The series stars Calista Flockhart in the title role as a young lawyer working in the fictional Boston law firm Cage and Fish, with other young lawyers whose lives and loves were eccentric, humorous and dramatic.
The show placed #48 on Entertainment Weekly's "New TV Classics" list.
The show focused on the romantic and personal lives of the main characters, often using legal proceedings as plot devices to contrast or reinforce a character's drama. For example, bitter divorce litigation of a client might provide a backdrop for Ally's decision to break up with a boyfriend. Legal arguments were also frequently used to explore multiple sides of various social issues.
Cage & Fish (which becomes Cage/Fish & McBeal or Cage, Fish, & Associates towards the end of the series), the fictional law firm where most of the characters work, is depicted as a highly sexualized environment, symbolized by its unisex restroom. Lawyers and secretaries in the firm routinely date, flirt with, or have a romantic history with each other, and frequently run into former or potential romantic interests in the courtroom or on the street outside.
Ally McBeal, a comedy-drama television series created by David E. Kelley, premiered on September 8, 1997 on FOX network in the United States and ended on May 20, 2002. The show spans five seasons of 112 episodes. The episodes were approximately 45 minutes long excluding commercials. FOX decided to cancel the series due to a significant ratings drop in the final season, caused by the introduction of various new characters and the departure of cast members in the previous season.
All seasons of Ally McBeal were released on DVD in the region 2 in 2002 and 2003, respectively. Until fall 2009, only several episodes of the first season of Ally McBeal were available in the United States, due to music rights issues. On October 6, 2009, Fox released a 6-disc set of all 23 season-one episodes, with their original music.
Ally McBeal follows an eccentric lawyer Ally McBeal and her group of friends from work, focusing on their personal and romantic lives, as well as their business cases which would often contrast or reinforce a character's drama. The series starred Calista Flockhart as Ally, Greg Germann as Richard Fish, Jane Krakowski as Elaine Vassal, Peter MacNicol as John Cage, Lisa Nicole Carson as Renée Raddick, Portia de Rossi as Nelle Porter, Lucy Liu as Ling Woo, Gil Bellows as Billy Thomas, Courtney Thorne-Smith as Georgia Thomas, Vonda Shepard as herself, Robert Downey Jr. as Larry Paul, and many others.
Actors: Daniel Dae Kim (actor), Eriq La Salle (actor), Michael Imperioli (actor), Paul Haggis (actor), James Gandolfini (actor), J.J. Abrams (actor), Adrian Grenier (actor), Gary Busey (actor), Peter Bogdanovich (actor), Balthazar Getty (actor), Steve Buscemi (actor), Kevin Dillon (actor), David Duchovny (actor), George Clooney (actor), Spike Lee (actor),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Irwin Allen (actor), Don Ameche (actor), Robert Altman (actor), Louis Armstrong (actor), Hank Azaria (actor), Alan Bates (actor), Patrick Bergin (actor), Barry Bostwick (actor), Timothy Bottoms (actor), Peter Boyle (actor), Lloyd Bridges (actor), Wilford Brimley (actor), Albert Brooks (actor), James L. Brooks (actor), Red Buttons (actor),
Genres: Documentary,Once upon a time you were on prime time
Made the Monday lineup on Fox at 9:00, didn’t you?
Your complaints and whines while defendin’ crimes
In your high hemlines made Gloria Steinem spit on you
And all the ’90s women heed your call
And share your deep desire to have it all
But they don’t see the way you stay so small
Behind the locked door of the bathroom stall
Sittin’ there, hunched over and purging your last meal
Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal
Nothing but skin and bone
Just like a Kate Moss clone
Without no muscle tone
Like a skele-tone
You can try to lie, say your metabolism’s high
But I ain’t gonna buy it when you’re outsized by
Ethiopians
And I just can’t stand you in your damn flannel jammies
Dancin’ ’round, plannin’ which man’ll get the grand
tour of your fallopians
I just don’t get what all the people see
In your self-involvement and hypocrisy
Your Pop-Tart feminism and cheap neuroses
As I stare into the vacuum of my T.V.
Scratching my head and trying to understand your appeal
Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal
Think of all the chunks you’ve blown
And all the up you’ve thrown
Into your porcelain throne