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Judging Amy
News-Times - September 2, 1999
By FRAZIER MOORE
AP Television Writer
A look at the new prime-time television series on Tuesday, with premiere dates:
CBS
"JUDGING AMY" (previews Sept. 19; premieres Sept. 21):
On the morning of her first day as a judge, Amy Gray stands before her bedroom mirror in her judicial robe - and panics. Then, rehearsing the tenet that justice is blind, she crawls back in bed
and pulls the covers of her head.
Separated from her husband, Manhattan lawyer Amy had moved with her 6-year-old daughter back home to Hartford, Conn., where she won an appointment as a Juvenile Court judge. They're living in her
family home with her free-spirited brother and her mother, a retired judge who has a judging way with Amy.
"Why won't she just let me screw up my life in peace?" thinks Amy, who is played with winsome honesty by Amy Brenneman ("NYPD Blue").
When Amy asks her mother what makes a good judge, Maxine doesn't have to think long: "Don't wear perfume. And always be sure there's no food in your teeth."
They make a wonderful pair, which is nice, because just about everything else about "Judging Amy" is wonderful, too. It has brains, heart and, with fall leaves tumbling and a cool snap
in the air, a glorious sense of place.
If there's any justice, it'll be a hit.
Copyright © 1999 The News-Times. All rights reserved.
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