I had the pleasure of watching all the episodes of "Nurse Jackie" on my sister's giant TV over the weekend when I was in Austin.
I adored the show, I love Edie Falco, and the whole cast is fantastic on this show, except for the eternally awful Anna Deavere Smith.
What a fucking hambone.
Regular readers may recall my run-in with Smith during Ann Richards's wake.
There Big Sis and I were at Shultz's Beer Garden, dining with my idol Lily Tomlin, her partner Jane Wagner and that snippy cow Anna Deavere Smith, whom I didn't know from Adam at the time.
Trying to be sociable, I ask her what she did. She sniffed, "I'm an ACTOR." I asked if I'd ever seen her in anything and she looked down her nose and said, "The West Wing?"
"Nope, sorry," I replied.
She was livid.
I didn't care.
I turned my attention back to Jane, whom I loved on sight. We were cracking each other up, so I told her I'd give her $12 for her e-mail address.
Anna Deavere Nicole Smith butted in and said, "DO NOT GIVE HER YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS."
I was fuming, and I never did get Jane's addy.
Anyway, I didn't recognize her at first on Nurse Jackie until I mentioned to my sister and her partner that she was the one actor on the show who was too slapstick and hammy for the rest of the understated cast.
They looked at each other funny, so I refocused on the screen and said, "Oh no, it's that fucking cow from Ann Richards's wake!"
I couldn't recall her name, but I did remember that arrogant puss of hers.
She may be a helluva stage actress, but that emoting to the rafters shit does not work well on television, especially on HD.
I hope they kill her off on Nurse Jackie tout de suite.
Send her ass back to off-off Broadway and let her thrill those audiences.
And keep her out of Texas, please. She's been doing some stage acting in Austin and this state is not big enough for the both of us.
Fuckin' overacting cow.
