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Believe
it, Amy! Actress shocked her rookie series is a big hit
Calgary Sun - January 18, 2000
By TYLER MCLEOD
LOS ANGELES -- Forget the talk about Scott Gomez, Edgerrin James or Steve
Francis -- the rookie of the year is Judging Amy.
"I still think it's going to end. That's just my point of view," a
modest Amy Brenneman tells the Sun.
Don't count on it, Amy. As the lead in the season's best-rated new drama,
Brenneman seems to be facing unavoidable stardom.
"I get a lot of people looking at me like they think they went to high
school with me and then I'm thinking: 'I know what you're thinking,' "
she says.
"But people are very sweet. They're very generous. They get it, they
get the show."
Judging Amy, tonight at 6 p.m. on F and 11 p.m. on M, casts Brenneman as a
newly divorced mom who returns home to Hartford where she renews ties with
her family and presides over a family court.
So far, that's where most of the storylines have been concentrated (family,
family court), but Brenneman says that changed when CBS committed to a full
season of the freshman hit.
"Partially because we were up against Once and Again, they didn't want
to go into my divorce at all and we really wanted to.
"That was one of the first things we started looking at (after the
pick-up). You feel like the ball's in your court again."
And Judge Amy's going to run with it.
"I get a sex life, which I'm very excited about. I've been very
virginal," says Brenneman of the latest episodes.
We have to wonder when she finds time for a love life considering the
constant time constraints of work and family.
"Quickies. It doesn't take long," Brenneman simply states.
Do we know this lucky guy or is he a mysterious stranger?
"A little bit of both.... There was some sense of establishing a
character who's not attached to a relationship but, you know, human beings
are human beings, so I think something will happen."
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