Chattanooga Times / Chattanooga Free Press, 18 March 2000, 
by Kevin McDonough c. United Feature Syndicate
Find TV's Best Ghost Stories on 'The Others' 
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* Best known for its addictive "True Hollywood Story" 
series, the E! network presents its first original movie. 
Call it an untrue Hollywood story. The comedy mystery, "Best 
Actress" (9 p.m., Sunday, TV-14, L, S, V) concerns five 
Oscar-nominated leading ladies and their desperate antics in 
the weeks before the Academy Awards. Based on a novel by 
John Kane, the story is narrated by Ted (Thomas Calabro), or 
rather the ghost of Ted, a sneaky screenwriter wannabe who 
is killed by one of the desperate thespians, that includes 
the boozy diva Connie (Loretta Devine), the trashy starlet 
Amber (Jordan Ladd), the prim British stage actress Fiona 
(Rachel Hunter), the adult-film star turned serious actress 
Karen (Jamie Pressly) and the closeted lesbian Lori (Elisa 
Donovan), who fears that her nomination will force her out 
of the closet. Rounding out the over-the-top ensemble is 
Anthony Head ("Buffy") who plays Fiona's philandering 
husband, Colin, and Maria Conchita Alonso as Lori's feisty 
lover, Maria, who puts the move on Fiona when Lori plays it 
straight for the pre-Oscar press. For all of its attempts to 
send up the oh-so-shocking mores of Hollywood Babylon, "Best 
Actress" is often more obvious than clever.



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