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JamesG
02-08-2017, 06:49 PM
Jean Smart on "Teachers Only"


Smart had been a theater actress before landing this NBC show starring Lynn Redgrave and Norman Fell. She played Shari, a secretary having an affair with the principal.

Smart quickly discovered that Hollywood was different from the New York stage scene — “warm-ups” referred to a comic for the studio audience, not vocal exercises, for example — something she marveled over with her agent after her first live taping.

“She was from the South and she said, ‘You poor baby. You really don’t know your ass from apple butter, do you?’ All evening I thought, ‘Toto, we are not in Kansas anymore.'”

http://ew.com/tv/2017/02/08/jean-smart-role-call/

king of comedy
02-09-2017, 06:21 PM
She has come a long way.