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Top to bottom: Debra
Messing as Grace, Eric
McCormack as
Megan Mullally as Karen
and Sean Hayes . as Jack
in "Will and Grace."

7

MICHAEL ELKIN

Special to the Jewish News

here is an amazing grace to the
preternaturally pretty Debra
Messing.
Slim and seductive, with an
engaging ethereal elusiveness, the Will &
Grace actress graces NBC's schedule with a
glitter of stardust.
As co-star of the series, which begins its
third season at a new time ---: as the 9
p.m. anchor of the network's coveted
Messing's
Thursday-night schedule
Grace is not one to mess with.
An interior decorator with designs on

Michael Elkin is entertainment editor at
the Jewish Exponent.

stitchinc, a better dating life for herself,
she rooms with the gay-and-anything-but-
carefree Will (Eric McCormack), her best
friend and bosom buddy, after a year of
bed and bored on her own.
Together, they are an odd couple, nice
New York neurotics with even odder
friends who have willed their way into
audiences' and critics' hearts over the past
two seasons.
Snaring II Emmy nominations (the
most for any comedy series), Will and
Grace, co-created by Max Mutchnik and
David Kohan, walked away earlier this
month with the Emmy for Best Comedy
Series. (Messing was nominated for Best
Lead Actress in a Comedy but lost.)
Casting the Brooklyn-born and
Providence-raised Messing was providen-

