{"id":519,"date":"2011-03-24T18:57:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T16:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simon-and-simon.info\/simonnew\/?p=519"},"modified":"2011-03-24T19:05:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T17:05:52","slug":"fairly-legal-gerald-mcraney-judges-in-sarah-shahis-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simon-and-simon.info\/simonnew\/fairly-legal-gerald-mcraney-judges-in-sarah-shahis-favor\/","title":{"rendered":"‚Fairly Legal‘: Gerald McRaney judges in Sarah Shahi’s favor"},"content":{"rendered":"

from: blog.zap2it<\/a><\/p>\n

By Kate O’Hare – March 23, 2011 <\/em><\/p>\n

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In „Bridges,“ the season-one finale of USA’s „Fairly Legal,“ airing Thursday, March 24 (following a morning marathon of earlier episodes), San Francisco-based mediator Kate Reed (Sarah Shahi) gets a seemingly impossible assignment — settle a dispute in one day between endlessly litigious brothers — from tough Judge Nicastro (Gerald McRaney).<\/p>\n

Being tested by Nicastro is nothing new for Reed, whose free-and-easy style has often grated on the judge’s nerves.<\/p>\n

But off camera, it’s quite a different relationship for McRaney and Shahi.<\/p>\n

„I love working with her,“ McRaney tells Zap2it. „Isn’t she the cutest thing ever? And very hard-working. That little girl, excuse me, young lady — everybody’s a little girl to me; I’m an old fart — but anyway, she is just the most delightful young lady and hard-working, which always impresses me.<\/p>\n

„She doesn’t take herself seriously, but she takes what she does extremely seriously. I just love that.“<\/p>\n

McRaney then proves himself as kind a dad as he is a co-star, saying of Shahi, „She, in a strange way, reminds me of my own oldest daughter — she’s bright, intelligent, a nice person, witty, that sort of thing. So I felt a kinship with her from the get-go.“<\/p>\n

When it’s remarked that Shahi is a rare thing — a beautiful actress who’s funny and not afraid to look silly — the adoring husband of Delta Burke says, „I’m married to one. Sarah doesn’t care. She’s not impressed with her beauty; that’s the other thing about her.“<\/p>\n

At the same time as he was working on „Fairly Legal,“ McRaney was playing another authority figure, a gruff CIA boss, over on the short-lived NBC caper drama „Undercovers.“ With that gone — and with TNT passing on „Bird Dog,“ the pilot he shot this year — if „Fairly Legal“ gets a second season (which has yet to be announced), McRaney could come back.<\/p>\n

Nothing would make him happier.<\/p>\n

„I would like for it to work out,“ he says, „because I like doing Nicastro, and I love working with Sarah.“<\/p>\n

But when asked about the plot details of the episode, McRaney, who shot it a while ago, admits, „I do not remember. Oh, Lord, this is what my ex-wife refers to as half-Heimers.“<\/p>\n

Then McRaney recounts a story featuring Jameson Parker, his co-star on the long-running and popular „Simon and Simon.“<\/p>\n

„A journalist actually asked Jameson,“ he recalls, „‚How does it feel to be the star of a Top 10 television show?‘ Jameson thought about it for a moment and said, ‚You know, it’s odd, but seeing as how television goes through stars the way a whale goes through plankton, I don’t really know how to respond to that.‘<\/p>\n

„It’s true, and I sometimes feel that’s the way I’m approaching doing television roles. I’m going through them the way a whale goes through plankton. It’s getting hard to identify the individual plankton.“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from: blog.zap2it By Kate O’Hare – March 23, 2011 In „Bridges,“ the season-one finale of USA’s „Fairly Legal,“ airing Thursday, March 24 (following a morning marathon of earlier episodes), San Francisco-based mediator Kate Reed (Sarah Shahi) gets a seemingly impossible assignment — settle a dispute in one day between endlessly litigious brothers — from tough<\/p>\n

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