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"House'; Fox; 9 p. m. Tuesdays; premieres
Nov. 16
She has played her share of memo-
rable characters, including a Capitol
Hill hooker on The West Wing, a trans-
sexual on Ally McBeal and a Jewish les-
bian on Relativity. This season, Lisa
Edelstein's repertoire expands with her
role as Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the new
drama House, opposite Hugh Laurie.
"She's smart; she's funny; she has
attitude; she's really sophisticated; she
dresses well. I enjoy her intelligence; I
enjoy her wit; I enjoy her sense of
power," Edelstein raves about the
character, whose medical profession
has always interested her.
"My dad is a pediatrician and as a
child, one of my greatest forms of
entertainment was going to the emer-
gency room with him," says Edelstein.
"I loved being in that exciting envi-
ronment, and I've never been afraid of
gore," the Boston-born, Brooklyn and
New Jersey-raised Edelstein elaborates.
"I love biology and medicine. I'm
just not a good student or I would
have [gone to medical school] myself."
PAULO COSTANZO
7oey"; NBC; 8 p.m. Thursdays;
premiered Sept. 9.
Playing Matt LeBlanc's rocket scien-
tist nephew on Joey is a big coup for
Toronto-born newcomer Costanzo, a
recent transplant from Canada to
Beverly Hills.
Having grown up on Friends, "read-
ing with Matt was weird, and then for
the network was weirder, and the stu-
dio executives, even weirder," he recalls.
But he's relishing the outcome. "I
don't honestly know if I could hold a
real job," says Costanzo. "I'm a very
lucky person to be making money
doing this. I really don't know what
else I'd be doing."
At first glance, his Italian name
belies a Jewish connection, but on his
mother's side of the family, Costanzo
is German-Czech and Jewish. He was-
n't raised to be observant, however.
"I actually celebrate Chanukah and
Christmas," he says. "We do a one-day
version of Chanukah and then cele-
brate Christmas with my other fami-
ly."
JASON ALEXANDER
"Listen Up"; CBS; 8:30 p.m. Mondays;
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Bob Patterson, did nothing to dispel
the notion of "a Seinfeld curse." But
Jason Alexander is giving it another go
in Listen Up, playing a sports talk-
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home — partly because he uses his
family for on-air conversational fod-
Last Season
Phil Rosenthal finally calls it quits for "Everybody Loves Raymond."
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"I'd go home and get into a fight with my wife, and if I
didn't have a second act, I'd keep it up."
But Rosenthal, 44, acknowledges the well is running
dry. And while fans and critics say the show is as funny as
hil Rosenthal, creator and executive producer of
Everybody Loves Raymond, does-
ever and ought to continue, Rosenthal
contends, "That's very easy to say sit-
n't believe morale will be a
ting at home on the couch. Of course
problem on the set this year, even
though it's the show's last season.
it may not look it, but we have very
"It's very easy keeping people happy,"
high standards.
he says. "Being Jewish, I know that
"Every episode has to be about some-
food is the most important thing, and
thing. It has to have a beginning, mid-
we always have great food on the set. In
dle and end, and it has to be about
fact, the name of my production com-
relationships, and you literally run out
pany is "Where's Lunch?" because that's
of things to talk about."
the writers' main preoccupation. The
Rosenthal actually wanted to end the
truth is a happy army travels on its
show last season. But he and the writ-
stomach."
ers got together and came up with
The popular Emmy award-winning
enough inventive stories for one more,
series about the Barone family is based
albeit short 16-episode season. And
that's all he wrote.
not so loosely on the family shenani-
gans of its star, Ray Romano, and
Pretty much everyone agrees with the
Rosenthal himself.
decision to end the show — except
"I've had stories inspired by my
Rosenthal's father, Max, a sometimes
actor
on Raymond.
mother, my father, my wife, my son
Phil Rosenthal based many of the
and my daughter," Rosenthal says.
"My
dad is especially hilarious. He
"Everybody Loves Raymond" scripts
was
on
the show once, and we gave
"I should pay all these people.
on his own life.
CURT SCHLEIER
Special to the Jewish News