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Under the canopy we see them —
will we? "Sure," says Drescher. "We'll
all be under the chuppah."
A Jewish ceremony? "You know,"
says Drescher, "maybe [Sheffield] will
becorne Jewish. He would redefine
the word 'Reform.'"
Drescher addresses the need for
the wedding after a pregnant pause.
(No, that's not the reason.)
It seems Fine's getting married to
keep up with the neighbors — the
viewing kind. "We have a much more
competitive time slot," she says of
"Spin City" (ABC) and "NewsRadio"
(NBC), which also air at 8 p.m.
Wednesdays.
"After much deliberation, it was
time to,play our trump card."
Can the storyline bridge the rest of
the season? "I would like to string it
for a sixth and seventh season," she
quips.
D_ rescher wants to make sure there
are no wedding-bell blues. Some
series lose their passion after the sit-
com couple marries. "Not tonight,
dear, I have a headache from the. slip
pang ratings" has become an unwel-
come refrain.
"Our writers are using 'Rhoda' as
an example of what not to do" with a
wedding, she says, recalling the 1974
episode in which Rhoda and Joe got
married to the accompaniment of
"Here Comes the Bride" and "There
Goes the-Audience."
Not with this one, says Drescher,
whose fish-out-of-water shtick won't
be scaled down. "She's just a flashy
girl from Flushing," she says.
Will there be the typical TV
Chanukah/Christmas conflict? Will
this mixed marriage mix up holidays?
"The difference in religion? I don't
know," says Drescher, proudly Jewish,
of how the series will handle the mar-
riage.
"We've definitely talked about her
religion a lot" in the past and there
have been episodic celebrations of
Jewish holidays as well as a famous
family trip to Israel.
"Yes, it is a mixed marriage — he's
rich and she's Jewish."
Drescher's not so bad off herself.
The innovative actress has appeared
in films (Saturday Night Fever,
Cadillac Man) as well as other TV
series ("Princesses"), and even
formed a food company when it
looked like an actors' strike would
leave her out of work a while back
in 1988.
Now that one season has followed
another, no need to depend on her

seasoned croutons for a successful
career.
Life hasn't always been a laughing
matter, however. A number of years
back, Drescher was raped by a bur-
glar who forced her longtime sweet-
heart/husband, Peter Marc Jacobson,
to watch the horrible crime.
"Being the victim of a violent
crime made me more aware of
myself," she says.
Therapy, adds Drescher, has
helped her try to cope. She also has
learned not to play a real-life nanny
to others. "I was the good one," she
says of her growing-up years.
As she got older, "I considered
myself Superwoman; I tried to take
care of those around me," including
her husband, from whom she is now
separated offstage but is still yoked to
as co-executive producer for "The
Nanny."
Look, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's
that voice. "Don't laugh," she says.
"My voice is my fortune."
So what if it has the timbre of
scrape metal rather than gold. "I took
voice lessons and learned how to talk
normal," she says of a onetime
attempt to sound less nasal.
She held back on the nose and
blew an audition. The casting direc-
tor, taking note of Drescher's deliber-
ate delivery, told her agent that "she
sounded good but she spoke very
slowly and it's only an eight-hour
mini-series."
Throughout life's ups and downs,
there have always been her parents to
take her side. Now they're celebrities,
too. "My parents went on the 'Rosie
O'Donnell Show' as food critics,"
gaining their expertise by being able
to name Florida's state bird: the Early
Bird.
"Then, one time ROsie invited
them on and they turned her down
because they were going on this big
cruise, and she stopped calling
them."
Ah, fame. "I yelled at them about
that. They've learned their lesson."
And maybe their Actors Equity
cards? "My dad played Uncle Stanley
in 'The Nanny' and they'll both
[play] relatives at the wedding," she
says.
And will they both be at the bris?
Just cut that out, cautions Drescher
comically; one life cycle at a time. ❑

A special one-hour episode of
"The Nanny" airs 8-9 p.m.
Wednesday, May 13, on . CBS.

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