Saturday, September 11, 2021

CELEBRATING 70 YEARS! : WILL & GRACE .. CBS .. USA .. 2000 ...


 

CBS / NBC
Presents

WILL & GRACE

Starring

ERIC MCCORMACK as Will Truman
DEBRA MESSING as Grace Adler
MEGAN MULLALLY as Karen Walker
SEAN HAYES as Jack McFarland
With
DOUG BALLARD as Robert Lilienfield
KEN LERNER as Bob
ROD BRITT as Larry

Special Guest Star
JOAN COLLINS as Helena Barnes

' MY BEST FRIEND'S TUSH'

( Season 2 - Episode 22 )

Directed by James Burrows 



'Will & Grace' is one of the big hit sitcoms of all time and it originally ran for eight seasons from 1998 to 2006, then returning to screens for three more seasons from 2016 to 2019. It also garnered 18 primetime Emmy's, with all of the cast winning at least one award.. It was also one of the first sitcoms to features two main gay characters with successful lawyer Will and flamboyant actor Jack.. 
The show had many guest stars including Debbie Reynolds as Grace's mother, Blythe Danner as Wills mother, with stars like Sharon Stone, Glenn Close, Candice Bergin, Alec Baldwin, Eileen Brennan, Richard Chamberlain, Cher, Michael Douglas, Lainie Kazan, Madonna, Lee Majors, Barry Manilow, Suzanne Pleshette, Chita Rivera, Lily Tomlin and many more..


Joan appears as a top New York interior designer Helena Barnes whom Grace has admired for many years and who Karen knows only too well.. Joan was due to reprise this role in a later episode, but when she read the script she hated it so much that she couldn't bring herself to do it and the role was switched to a character called Beverly Leslie played by Leslie Jordan.. Joan plays the role to the hilt, sending herself up in a famous scene in a taco bar, where she is seen stuffing a filled taco into her mouth whilst talking to her dog which she keeps in her Vuitton bag.. Wonderful!


You can buy Season 2 which contains Joan's episode on a 2011 box set from Universal Pictures Playback at the following link....




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