Question: Can you tell me who played Mr. Hall (the flying man) on Ally McBeal and what show he used to be on?
Answer: You mean the Mr. Hall who winged it across the river and collapsed of a heart attack so that narcissist Ally (Calista Flockhart) could once again make someone else's tragedy all about her? (No doubt it was only the belief that a better script lay across the river that kept the poor man aloft, and the disappointment at finding it wasn't there laid him low.) And did I mention that whole flying plot was ripped off from William Wharton's far superior book Birdy (though since no one in Hollywood reads, Kelley and Co. probably cribbed it from Alan Parker's movie version, which definitely had its moments, too)?
Oh, yeah — your question. Well,
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Question: Any chance Calista Flockhart will turn up on David E. Kelley's Boston Legal as Ally McBeal?
Answer: There's always a chance, but it doesn't look like it'll happen anytime soon. According to a setsider, "From what I've heard, she is very much enjoying being a mom and has no plans to return to acting anytime soon."
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The series finale of Ally McBeal proved a dull downer, but in our humble opinion, Portia de Rossi was the best thing about that dramedy right up until the very end. "Oh, really?!" she exclaims to TV Guide Online. "Listen to me, I'm shocked. That's so lovely!"
Though the Aussie actress — who turns 30 this month — has trouble taking the compliment, she finds our Ally criticism dead-on. "I don't think [the final episode] was the most generous approach to an audience who stuck with us for five years," de Rossi admits. "Like, have Ally go back to Boston to be with Larry! You know, make it sweeter. To see Ally McBeal walk down the street on her way to New York City, one of the loneliest cities in the world, where she doesn't know anyone, was sad.
"But," she chuckles, "I think Calista Flockhart meeting Harrison Ford in her personal life made everyone happier! She's so happy wit
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