Marisa Coughlan
Bones' Booth this season may face his toughest case — that being one he cannot investigate himself, due to a conflict of interest. That means someone else will be putting folks in the hot seat... and perhaps making Seeley's temperature rise, as well.
Marisa Coughlin, who most notably fronted the Lifetime series Side Order of Life, has been tapped to ...
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Question: Boston Legal is a well-written David E. Kelley series in the tradition of Picket Fences and The Practice. But I have become turned off in recent weeks by the show's tendency to break the fourth wall time after time. In one instance, Denny Crane (William Shatner) berates his friend and colleague Alan Shore for withholding important information from him. "I wish you had let me in on the game," Crane said. "I can act, you know. I won an Emmy." Shatner, of course, has won two Emmy awards for playing the off-the-wall attorney. In Tuesday night's episode, Shore (played by James Spader, another two-time Emmy winner) is warned by his overamorous secretary (Marisa Coughlan) not to become romantically involved with a female attorney (Kerry Washington). "Don't fall for her, Alan," the secretary said. "She's just a guest star." I don't know about you, but I take my TV dramas seriously. Satire is fine in its place, but it seems as if Boston Legal is taking things to a whole new level. Does ...
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