Sally Field was a big star once, but about a decade ago, her career went down like Jessica Alba on the casting couch. In 2002, she attempted a “triumphant” return to television with the blink-and-you-missed-it ABC drama The Court. Since then, she’s been M.I.A. save for a thankless role in (shudder) Legally Blonde 2. We dread to imagine what the two-time Oscar winner was even paid for that debacle, considering the size of Reese Witherspoon’s bounty. Poor Sally - we could just picture the former sweetheart at home in her Soapdish turban, polishing off a quart of Soy Delicious and wondering what went wrong.
Now, Sally’s making a surprise, impromptu return to ABC in the fall pick-up Brothers & Sisters, which will air Sundays after Desperate Housewives. Why is it a surprise? Well, Field wasn’t initially cast as the matriarch of a family that includes Calista Flockhart and Rachel Griffiths. No, in the pilot, that role went to skeletal-enough-to-be-Calista’s-mom Betty Buckley, who’s since apparently been shit-canned.
Take that, Buckley! Hey, I’ve got a “Memory” for you, kitten - it’s the memory of your career in television! Snap!
ABC courting Sally Field! [TV Guide Blogs]
her career went down like Jessica Alba on the casting couch.
Ha! I’m stealing that.
betty buckley’s place will forever be cemented in tv history as that mom-type chick on 8 is enough. sally field, however, will only be remembered for her tv portrayal as ‘that chick that has osteoporosis’.
hey now, betty buckley rocks!
what is Soy Delicious? Can I buy it in Japan?