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From "Nurse Jackie" to "Weeds" to "Tara" and "The Big C," the pay
cabler has become packed with bad girls who make good. As the Wall
Street Journal notes, "Showtime's strategy: attracting big-name
actresses, of a certain age and experience, who are hard-pressed to
find juicy, challenging, starring roles elsewhere."